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
10 months ago
amertner

Does my posting above yours on account recovery help? Here's the link again.

https://1password.community/discussion/145445/recovery-codes-for-individuals-beta#latest
amertner
New Contributor
10 months ago
1P_Tommy Unfortunately, it doesn’t. The crux is this sentence: “ Once created, make sure to store the code in a safe and accessible place outside of this account”

Where should I store it? I don’t have a safe deposit box, and I tend to use 1Password to store my confidential stuff. A mechanism to release it to the right people after I’m gone is the part that’s missing for me.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
10 months ago
Thanks for the feedback HudsonOH and welcome to the community.

ref: PB-39571460
1P_Tommy
Moderator
9 months ago
Thanks GSK I've shared your comments with the team.

ref: PB-39719592
gvanschip
New Contributor
9 months ago
Good point. I actually added my mother to my family account and made sure that she shares all her items in a shared vault. Likewise, I have added both my children to my account and created an item with access details for my account. All manual options so having something automated build in would be great. I do realize that it would need a lot of careful consideration from a security standpoint.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
9 months ago
I'm glad you've found some ideas in this topic. I've shared your comments internally.
thimplicity
New Contributor
9 months ago
Please add me to the list of people who are interested in a functionality similar to Bitwarden. The solution should not include storing something in a safe, as people might not live close to another
MerryBit
Frequent Contributor
9 months ago
This feature has been requested literally for over a decade, so I would not hold my breath. 😊

Here is the oldest thread I could find asking for such a feature, it is from 2011:

https://1password.community/discussion/2278/feature-request-emergency-password-for-family-in-case-of-death
1P_Tommy
Moderator
9 months ago
MerryBit

Yes, it has been requested as you mention. However, 1Password 8 which makes many more things possible did not exist then. The revamp of 1Password.com is underway and recovery codes are in beta. I hope this is something we can bring to light. Many more things are possible now that were not possible back then. I'm not saying it could happen over night but there is a possibility.
MerryBit
Frequent Contributor
9 months ago
Recovery codes? How do they work and where can I try them out?

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