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rpaulson
26 days agoNew Contributor
Too much power in the hands of a family manager
Back in 2020/2021, a lot of us—myself included—poured time, energy, and probably a few cups of coffee into voicing concerns on the 1Password Community platform. One particularly lively thread, "Too m...
- 23 days ago
Hello rpaulson! 👋
Thank you for following up. Your original thread was accidentally caught in our spam filter, I’ve now released it and merged it with your other thread. I’m sorry for the mix-up and any confusion it caused.
Regarding the old thread, only conversations active within the last three years were migrated to the new community however none of your feedback has been lost. Your feature requests and input have been shared with our product team internally, and they remain open and under consideration.
At the moment, 1Password Families memberships are designed with the assumption that you trust the family organizer. The organizer has certain powers — such as inviting members, recovering accounts, and deleting members. If that level of trust isn’t comfortable for you, then you can use your own individual account instead.
That being said, this is an area that we'd like to improve. Our Senior Director of Product, End User Experience, shared an update recently on Reddit:
Thanks for the feedback and I do recognize the implications this can have. There are pretty major architectural changes that need to happen to make this possible. We have not forgotten about this and it is still on my list. It's just taking time. There are, however, some other architectural changes happening that might accelerate this work.
We’re grateful for your thoughtful feedback, and we’ll continue to share updates as progress is made however we don't have a timeline on when this might be. Thank you again for raising this, it truly helps us shape 1Password for the better.
-Dave
1P_Dave
Moderator
23 days agoHello rpaulson! 👋
Thank you for following up. Your original thread was accidentally caught in our spam filter, I’ve now released it and merged it with your other thread. I’m sorry for the mix-up and any confusion it caused.
Regarding the old thread, only conversations active within the last three years were migrated to the new community however none of your feedback has been lost. Your feature requests and input have been shared with our product team internally, and they remain open and under consideration.
At the moment, 1Password Families memberships are designed with the assumption that you trust the family organizer. The organizer has certain powers — such as inviting members, recovering accounts, and deleting members. If that level of trust isn’t comfortable for you, then you can use your own individual account instead.
That being said, this is an area that we'd like to improve. Our Senior Director of Product, End User Experience, shared an update recently on Reddit:
Thanks for the feedback and I do recognize the implications this can have. There are pretty major architectural changes that need to happen to make this possible. We have not forgotten about this and it is still on my list. It's just taking time. There are, however, some other architectural changes happening that might accelerate this work.
We’re grateful for your thoughtful feedback, and we’ll continue to share updates as progress is made however we don't have a timeline on when this might be. Thank you again for raising this, it truly helps us shape 1Password for the better.
-Dave