How to protect your 1Password account while you are alive

There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a 1Password account. 1Password suggests printing the Emergency Kit and storing it with your will, with instructions for your executor.¹

1Password Families includes up to 5 people on one subscription, each with their own account password, and family organizers manage the account and the vaults members can access.²

Each family member starts with a Private vault for their own items and a Shared vault for the family; a guest has access to a single vault at a time.²

A family organizer manages members, guests, vaults, recovery and billing, and can delete the family account.³

If no one who can recover accounts can sign in, 1Password cannot help: it has no access to account passwords or Secret Keys and cannot reset or recover them.⁴

1Password 8 exports to the 1PUX format or to CSV, which carries Login and Password items only. Exported files are plaintext, and 1Password says not to email them or store them online and to delete them when done.⁵

A 1PUX export includes the account's Document items, file attachments and custom icons.⁶

An administrator or owner of a 1Password Business account can turn off Emergency Kits for the organization, and members then cannot save one.⁷

Family organizers, team administrators and owners, and members of a group with the Recover Accounts permission can recover accounts for others.⁸