I am not planning to die anytime soon, but sometimes things happen. Beyond securing my 1Password details in an Escrow account, or with a lawyer, or in a bank lockbox, does 1Password offer any means of allowing one or more designated member of the 1Password Families account to access the 1Password account in case of the primary owner's passing? Apple now offers the ability to add one or more Legacy Contacts so that in case of your untimely demise, an Access Key and a Death Certificate allows Apple to grant the holder of both of these to get a new Apple ID that has access to your Apple ID Account. It may be something 1Password wants to consider, though I realize that reviewing Death Certificates may not be on the high list of priorities for the team! 1Password Version: Not Provided Extension Version: Not Provided OS Version: Not Provided Browser: Not Provided

@ooglek We do not have any available options like what you're seeking. Well, short of sharing the Emergency Kit and password. I hope that will change. For now, I've shared my Emergency Kit with my adult children, and I keep my password secured in a safe (inside a sealed envelope), which will be opened when I pass. It's a grim subject, but you are 100% correct. It is one that needs to be addressed beforehand. I recommend ensuring anyone in a family membership has a secondary organizer. 🚑 Recover accounts for family or team members I went through this several years ago with my wife. We prepared using the above method. We thought I would be the first to go. That didn't happen. Life throws you those curveballs. I can let the team know this subject is also on your mind. ref: PB-37977565

As I age and see the disarray some family members have left for others, I want more and more not to leave a mess for my survivors. This is really, really important. If 1PW is not yet ready to implement a specific purpose-built program for this, I would really appreciate a comprehensive discussion on the website (not abbreviated in the Community) as to all the potential work-arounds we could use. It should be written for laypeople, and not laden with shoptalk.

Adding to this mountain of requests for legacy access. I use Simple Login instead of Fastmail for unique email addresses for every service so, on top of family not being aware of unique long passwords for every service, having MFA or a passkey for access- they won't even know what email address is being used for any given service. 1Password access after that bus finally catches me is going to be critical. That said, I'm hoping the legacy feature, if and when we get it, allows designation of a specific vault (or a tag/category) to provide access to. I'd like to be able to organize or some how specify which credentials should be shared if I'm snuffed out. I've got nearly 500 items in 1Password currently and I can only see that growing as time goes on and I use the tool for more and more items which I expect would be stressful, confusing, and exhausting to sift through when successors would need maybe a dozen or two credentials. I'd also prefer to keep things such as shared, work related, social media and other dumb things private and basically make it as simple as possible for less tech-savvy and unfamiliar people to get access to the few important things they'll need.

Hello! Just echoing this. I have been using LastPass because of their Emergency feature, and looking to potentially change to 1Password but this will be a blocker for me. Recently a close friend lost her husband unexpectedly and suddenly. She has had so many issues canceling subscriptions and having access to all the things he had access to. We don't want to think about these things, but I think inherently a Family account should be covering that for us. Knowing that my passwords are safe on a vault that my family can access if anything was to happen to me is really important. And the other way around! All the current solutions I see require a million things to setup and so many chances for frustration (no access to email, not sure which 2FA is enabled, etc.). Also, printing the page doesn't seem like a great idea considering 1Password principles: that basically gives access to anyone that finds the page very easily at any point. It's hard enough to deal with the grieve of losing a loved one, it would be great if products like 1Password prioritised making such a human and difficult moment an easier one. I'll remain hopeful to see a feature like this come into 1Password :)

Hi, I'm also interested a lot in this legacy/emergency access. Bitwarden and Ente have it. For now I'm forced to have this convoluted setup: - print the Emergency Kit, give it to family members - I use an open-source third party emergency access service (https://weexpire.org/) to E2EE encrypt a note with my 1Password master passphrase. With a 7 days wait time - it gives me a link (containing the encrypted note) and an access code that I put in an item "in case of emergency" in a shared vault with my family member/emergency contact When needed they open the link, provide the access code on the website, wait 7 days, re-open the link, get my master passphrase, use this with my emergency kit they already have to connect to my account. Clearly not ideal for ease of use

1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

1P_Tommy
Moderator
11 months ago
Thank you both. I've shared your comments with the team.

ref: PB-38664805
accordionmelody
Contributor
11 months ago
I believe that Bitwarden has found a good solution here and wanted to make this suggestion available for discussion in the development team.

Bitwarden allows you to define so-called "trusted emergency contacts" via Emergency Access.

They can then request access via their Bitwarden account in an emergency. The trusted emergency contact can then access the grantor's vault after a predefined period of time has elapsed.

During this period, however, the grantor can also cancel this access request (if the request is not permitted and the grantor is still alive, for example).

More information: https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/

I am curious to see whether we will soon see another option from 1Password. It has already been announced here and there that this topic is already being discussed internally.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
11 months ago
accordionmelody

Topics like this are always open to discussion amongst the team. That does not necessarily translate to active work on any project. That said, I am but a single person in this large machine. There are many areas that my travels do not take me each day. We are aware of various methods and the team always looks at possibilities. Thank you for sharing.
glowndes
New Contributor
10 months ago
1P_Tommy

To your suggestion about locking it in a safe. You mentioned that you are the only one with the combination. I certainly hope that your family will be able to crack it open….
1P_Tommy
Moderator
10 months ago
Yep, the local lock smith is a friend of the family. :)
pxlrbt
New Contributor
10 months ago
Just want to add my 2cents. I think this is a crucial feature. Currently I stored my emergency kit with a service that encrypts it when I don't respond two an email in X days. But I'd rather have my password manager handle this than relying on another tool (which might not be around anymore when it's needed).
1P_Tommy
Moderator
10 months ago
Thanks pxlrbt I'll let the team know this is a concern you'd like addressed.

ref: PB-39375148
cchuck
New Contributor
10 months ago
Add me to the list. I have the stand-alone paid app, not a membership. I was hoping a membership would include a legacy feature. If 1Password competitors can do it...
1P_Tommy
Moderator
10 months ago
cchuck

Did you see one of our latest beta announcements? Does it help you? https://1password.community/discussion/145445/recovery-codes-for-individuals-beta#latest
amertner
New Contributor
10 months ago
Add me to the list of people who’d like this.

My preferred solution would be to provide an email address that I can share with my heirs, along with instructions on what to do once I’m dead: send an email to the address with a predefined code in it.

When this happens, it should notify me that an heir is asking for access to my account, and give me a configurable time period in which to object, maybe 48 hours. If I don’t do that, they get access to data that allows them to access my 1password account.