Feature request - Sharing between family accounts

No worries @Jack229 It's all good.

The person you invite will become part of the family, but they'll only have access to a single vault. They will in essence have 2 passwords, and 2 secret keys. One corresponding to their account and one to yours, for example. They can use the same password if they elect to do so. They can even use the same email address to keep things tidy if they wish to do so.

It's the same as inviting anyone to the family but with the portion of setting a designated vault that they can access.

Let me know what else you might have questions about.

Assuming you have iCloud keychain turned on, the yes, the Secret Key would be saved to the keychain. We save it there to aid in setting up new devices just like you experienced and as a backup of sorts. You should see my keychain with about 7 or 8 testing accounts. Haha. Correct, you can regenerate the key if needed. Most folks would not need to do so unless they have concerns about the key being compromised.

If they are adding the account to the apps, they would need to provide the Secret Key, email, and password. Once the account is set up on the device, I would not expect the Secret Key to be asked for on a regular basis unless they fully sign out of the account, clear their browser history, or when making the switch to a new browser. Most times, if you/they have the desktop application installed and the given account signed in, it all happens auto-magically due to what we call the shared lock state (The connection between the desktop and the browser).

I would recommend saving the 🚒 Emergency Kit to a place they can access it should they need to do so.

Hey @Jack229

The only impossible scenario is that two members of the same family cannot sign into the same device at the same time. For example, a husband and wife from the same family cannot be signed into the same application. There are a couple of workarounds to this. Multiple users on the device or multiple browser profiles, for example. You should have no trouble signing into your account from your family and your account in their family. I've had as many as 6 or 7 different accounts signed in simultaneously. Nowadays I try to limit it to a max of 3 at any one time but that is a self imposed limitation.

They way you described saving the Emergency Kit is the way I do it for my testing accounts. It's not a big deal if I lose one of those. The only one I take a lot of extra precautions with is my personal account.

Each account entry is saved in the keychain. You will find the Secret Key and the email address for one 1Password account saved as a single entry. It's not designed to be human-readable, but it can be done. All of my testing accounts use different addresses.

When you initially open one password on a device, you'll be prompted with a list of accounts found in the keychain. You select the one you wish to use and provide the password. You'll be signed in. For example, I see a found account named Toms family and one named Toms (Individual test). I specifically saved the names of my accounts to help avoid confusion. Most users with one or two accounts might see Jack's Family (for your family) and then your relatives. You might see (insert name) family for theirs.

Yes, keychain will work with multiple Secret Keys.