This is necessary for inheritance reasons in areas outside of Proton. It should ideally become a feature of Proton.

A dead man's switch in proton allows access to assets or documents which are secure until someone dies.

Consider having a two part key. Half is given to a beneficiary. The other half is set to be sent to them via a dead man's switch.

With a dead man's switch there is no risk of premature access by beneficiaries directly, nor through either their careless security or trusted intermediaries (like lawyers). And with the two parts being completely distinct, there no risk of combining them until the switch is triggered.

Proton's security makes this the perfect platform for this type of dead man's switch.

I like to have this, but it also seems to create a possible backdoor into accounts? At least a decent waiting period should be in place before the account is opened to legacy contacts.

Absolutely! LastPass has this.

Add a "deadmans switch". In case something happens to you, Proton sends an email to certain contacts at a certain time period. This would be awesome to have.

Original Idea: https://reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1e8ehl0/dead_mans_switch_and_schedule_recurring_emails/

Critical function

Background:
Important information is stored in proton and it would be valuable to allow access to certain individuals if I were to become incapacitated or incapable of logging in to my accounts.

Feature(s):
If I do not login to a proton service for X days/months/years, first send me an email with a reminder to my backup email address (if i have one). If I do not login after receiving initial notification of pending deadman switch, send email to defined email addresses with a particular, custom email message

Use-case:
If I become incapacitated or incapable of logging in, my custom message will be sent to trusted peers to access my data

Secure Safe has a data inheritance function where users can set up access to data for loved ones in the event of incapacity or passing. This could be a useful feature to consider. See link below.

https://help.securesafe.com/securesafe-settings-data-inheritance

I would like to see a feature for heirs. If I pass away, I want my family to be able to access my passwords and notes. For example, they would only need to remember one password. Or, they could receive an email, and if I don't log in within 7 days (or a longer period of time, depending on the user's preference), my heirs would then be able to access my vault.

Please consider adding something akin to a financial institution's beneficiary specification so that a trusted person could manage one's digital assets when one dies. (They should need to provide a death certificate for the owner to be able to have access to the account.)

Thank you.

You could just shamirs secret share your password and give it to multiple people.

It would be important to also offer technical support to the heir.

Bitwarden has "emergency access", Google has "inactive account manager". When I die, after several months of inactivity in my Proton account, and after several failed attempts by Proton to reach me, I'd like my heirs to then, and only then, have access to certain valuable information.

Does Proton read and respond to these feature requests? The original request is from 2015 and I don't see any response from Proton.

I would very much like to know if Proton is looking into this issue, and whether they have any plans to release a solution in the near term.

Back in 2015, I wouldn't have cared so much about it. But in 2023, I think it's a must, especially for an email service provider.

I guess if I don't get a response, or Proton doesn't announce anything about it this year, I'll just cancel my subscription and go elsewhere.

It would be nice, if you offer an option like SecureSafe, to define a digital legacy contact(Or multiple contacts).
So someone has access to your account if you're dead or had a bad accident and aren't able to access your passwords, emails, etc... by your self.

The idea behind this would be that this person then receives a separate code and then has to enter it. However, one can still intervene in a self-defined period (e.g. 1hour, 1day, 5days, 1month, etc...).

One of the most compelling features of my current password manager (LastPass) is the emergency access feature. I very much like the ability to allow approved people to request access to my account and, should I not decline that request in a self-determined amount of time, to allow them to have full access. Unexpected things happen all the time and easing the ability for my loved ones to manage my affairs is quite reassuring to me.

I certainly understand the security issues. My initial e-mail request about this got a response that said that implementing this would, perforce, allow access to the whole Proton account, but that is something I'm fine with, as they would get that through such a request anyway.

I don’t need anything as dramatic as this, but I do want my wife to be able to recover my account in the event of my death. Other services have this, e.g., Apple iCloud Legacy Contacts.

In order to make this function available please change your votes to this other dead man's switch petition witch is by far more voted

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/7239237-dead-mans-switch

Thanks!

Like with a Google account, have an option to let users decide what ProtonMail automatically does to the account once it becomes inactive after a certain number of months.

Yes I second that. Please

everyone, please vote on > https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/7239237-dead-mans-switch