Emergency access
Many password managers offer an Emergency Access feature whereby in the event of something happening to you a family member/trusted friend can gain access to your password vaults. Once you set them up, they can request access. if you do not reject access in whatever number of days you specify, then they gain access. This is a nice assurance that a family member can access your info if something happens to you without having to share your login info with them now.

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A commented
Can't be done securely. This would require either proton to know your encryption keys, or you to encrypt the shared data to the recipient's keys ahead of time and have proton escrow that, neither of which are desirable under proton's security model.
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JWF commented
This should not be a Proton Pass-specific feature, but instead something for Proton Accounts. I forget its exact name, but Google has a similar feature to designate a digital caretaker for your account in the event something happens to you unexpectedly. There are configurable choices about how someone could receive access and what data they would have access to.
Something like this for the entire Proton Account would be more useful than Proton Pass alone. I have the same concern for my passwords as I do my Calendar and my Drive.
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Lance Moore commented
Secure shared access in case of emergency is hugely important. My trusted friends need to be able to access my accounts and pay my bills, etc., when the time comes. I really don't want to email my info to them. :-( or put it on a piece of paper.
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Michael Hopkins commented
Really want to ditch LastPass for Proton Pass, but it's going to be hard without some kind of method to share my vault with loved ones in a hit-by-a-bus scenario.
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verbose786 commented
I don't like the thought of this as it would require a "trusted" middleman to hold onto the encryption key. I think you would be better off using something like Shamir's secret sharing algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing) to distribute your key among trusted peers. This way you can "ensure" that they won't use their parts of the key until the case in which they are supposed to arises.
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P.M. commented
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.
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J commented
Good idea and hope it could be done securely without risks.
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Attila Matolcsy commented
While I support this, but only if the security of the passwords are not compromised as with this way they need to open up access. So encryption becomes a question.
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Rob commented
Could be useful to be able to allow emergency access by agreement through multiple trusted parties or when not logged into any proton ser ices for a long period of time.
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Ken commented
This duplicates the idea with more votes for "emergency access"
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fohaineault commented
This feature is critical.
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J W commented
This is related to the entry “emergency access” by Brian on 07/01/23.
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J W commented
We need to able to configure this for multiple people on multiple time frames and with selectable items. Not all or nothing. Example: Share selected items with one or more people on a short time frame, then share other selected items on a longer time frame, finally an account take over. Available time frames should extend out at least six months. Notification alert of request for access and prior to grant should be sent via email and text.
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Ken Wilkinson commented
Critical for me as I am getting on in years and need to enable certain people to have access should I be unable. This is a function of my current password manager (Nordpass) and my previous one (Roboform).
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Roy commented
Having this feature prevents storing your password externally so that your vault is accessible if incapacitated or a person dies. Especially important to a Power of Attorney or Executor of an estate.
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Jamaladinho commented
Ability to be able to provide a secure contact who in the case of ones
own disappearance can access the password vault. I.e. this feature other PW managers have where one can e.g. provide a family member who could apply for access to a vault and if he/she is not rejected within x days he/she gets access