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.

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

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 :)

1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts

moonpup
Frequent Contributor
5 months ago
+1 for me on this feature!
GuitarChord
New Contributor
5 months ago
1P_Tommy
Thank you for getting my request in front of the team that would be in charge of implementing it. I'm hoping that they will consider it seriously. I don't know the demographics of 1Password users, but for those of us old enough to be dealing seriously with estate questions this is a very good feature to have.

I will take a look at the entire discussion above as you suggested.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
5 months ago
GuitarChord

I've merged your topic with an existing one and mentioned to our team you would be interested in seeing this sort of feature. Please look over the discussion above for possible suggestions that you can use. The team will consider all suggestions. I am unable to make any promises about when/if such a feature will be available.

ref: PB-43753208
GuitarChord
New Contributor
5 months ago
In LastPass there is a feature called Emergency Access. You designate someone to be your emergency access contact with a time period. If something happens to you, your emergency access contact can login to your Vault after that time period has expired.

Does something like this exist in 1Password? All I can find is the ability to share passwords. I don't want to share my passwords unless I'm incapacitated, and then my emergency contact would take over.

Hopefully this all makes sense. If the feature doesn't exist in 1Password, how do I go about requesting it in a future upgrade.

Not sure this is the right category but the access would be for a family member.

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1P_Tommy
Moderator
6 months ago
doctordogfish

Any ideas or discussion would likely remain here as part of the community. This is the very reason for this community: to promote discussions and offer feedback while having a place to interact with others like yourself. It's here to foster new ideas and bring suggestions to the table. I can't think of a better pace than the community.

If/when something official comes to light, I'm sure you'll see it documented on 1Password.com, ready for everyone's consumption.

Thank you for the feedback. I will share it with the team for future consideration.
doctordogfish
New Contributor
6 months ago
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.
1P_Tommy
Moderator
7 months ago
OlavN

There is no functionality for a legacy access system at this time. It has been proposed to the team. I've merged your conversation into an existing topic.

Recovery codes may be an option for you if it's something that you wish to look into. Generate and use recovery codes

Recovery codes require access to the users email account to complete the recovery
dragon1
Frequent Contributor
7 months ago
Ok - thanks. So it doesn't look like it will come in near future. Thanks.
OlavN
New Contributor
7 months ago
Hi, looks like a printed paper is the best solution 1password has for emergency access in case of family member's health makes stops them from accessing their personal vaults:
https://1password.community/discussion/136165/how-to-gain-access-to-parents-private-vault-when-they-pass

I had a Lastpass family account, but switched to 1password families as I found it safer and tidier.
But in 1password I can't find a similar solution to what Lastpass had:
Assign emergency access to a member while configuring number of days for denial. Then if the assigned member, using the password management web pages, requests access to my account, I get an email with a link for denying access within the mentioned number of days.

I would agree that some of the web management features in Lastpass were a security risk, maybe this one as well. But it can be done right.

And I simply don't find 1password's (lacking really) solution good enough for this core need of a family password management solution.

While you generally won't distrust family members, it's not ok for any part to have too much access. In case of a breach, what will other's think?

I would find it ok to manually share a print of my Secret Key to a family member.
But I can't see any good option to automated sharing of my 1password username and password after a denial period.

Thanks for listening.

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MerryBit
Frequent Contributor
7 months ago
dragon1 This feature has been requested for years--literally.

Take this 6-year-old Reddit thread requesting the feature, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/afvms2/emergency_access_request/

And that person is not the only who has requested such a feature either:

https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/search/?q=emergency+access

This forum is ripe with requests for the same feature also, but so far the feature has not come to fruition.