1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

Tertius I understand your point, but I would argue that printing all that information is insecure in its own right, especially if a recovery code now negates the need for the combined 1P password+security key. Any future LP breach can be mitigated by changing the # of rounds of encryption cyphers used to a high and random 6-7 digit number, which I've done, as well as change all of the passwords contained within it (which I would have had to do anyway whether I moved to 1P or not). At this point, my encrypted LP vault is more secure out in the open than all those codes put on paper, and I get the benefit of true emergency access. Pro's and con's and to each their own.

But again, the whole point of this is that all 1P has to do to win my business is to implement a feature that apparently many people are asking for and their competition already has. Their move.

After reading all the posts I'm asking myself what all the answers and the 'recovery code for familiy members' has to do with the topic???

Isn't he asking for something easy Bitwarden is offering for a long time...

A family member dies > I will request to access his data (if he allowed it) > I do get the chance to by waiting an amount of time > if he does not refuse the request (death, serious illness or something else) I do get access.

This is something different than a recovery code you're talking about.

dragon1

1Password does not have such an option at this time. Who knows in time we may. It is something I would like to see. Recovery codes are the best suggestion at this time. That's in addition to the account recovery option from the family organizer.

This is one of the most critical features to add. I don't want to store my password anywhere, or entrust anyone.
The bitwarden way of doing things is, for now, the best way I've seen.
Hope this will get implemented soon.
Regards.

Yes... Completely agree with Djeross. As morbid as it may sound, I have moved everything over to Bitwarden mostly for this reason.

I may add, this has been requested for many many many many many... years now.
It's really disappointing and hard to believe that nothing has been done to definitely solve this matter.
I'm even considering to pay for a premium bitwarden account, just to store credentials for my 1P account and take advantage of their "Trusted emergency contacts".
Or maybe I should just pay this premium account to... use it instead of 1P completely ?
Let's see what happens in the next months.

That's exactly what I did Djeross. Eventually, I just moved to BW

I'm getting more and more pressure from the family concerning this point.

Overall they all like the concept of PW managers and their features. But exactly this is a point where I'm getting more and more under pressure and do not have answers for it as 1PW doesn't have any option here.

Other providers (Bitwarden, Apple and others) have solutions. But 1PW does not.

Hope to see some update coming up in near future as it really is a big point!

dragon1, to the best of my knowledge, an Apple Legacy Contact cannot retrieve passwords stored in the Keychain of the deceased user (see here), and thus this mechanism is not a viable tool for estate planning. Perhaps the forthcoming Apple Passwords app in iOS 18 may include such a feature?

Pleonasm Thanks for the details. Didn‘t know about Apple not including the Keychain. But maybe something will come up with Passwords.app

Overall it really is time, that 1Password will do some updates concerning this topic. We need something like Bitwarden is offering here.