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I really wanted this to be something letting my wife and I share digital assets like we do real assets. Alas. Just take the device away from a kid using it at night against orders.

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Google already has the Google Play Family Library which allows the sharing of digital assets (music, movies, tv shows, apps, books and magazines) purchased through Google Play. https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7007852?hl=en

Google Photos for couples is what's sorely lacking, IMO. If you share your life together and you don't keep anything from each other, having two separate accounts for photos is annoying. There should be an option to "marry" two Google Photos accounts so both can access each others photos (I know you can share photos and albums but you are not going to be constantly sharing every photo one by one when you want to share everything by default with your significant other)

someone from google working on photos, please make this happen. /hope

In Google Drive settings enable "Create a Google Photos folder". Once you have done so a Google Photos folder will appear in Drive. If you share this folder with your SO they will be able to access your current and future Google Photos.

Seems to be another one of those region-restricted features that those of us in smaller countries will never benefit from.

The lack of access to online accounts is a time bomb waiting to happen. A user friendly version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing or some type of multi-sig to handle giving access to all of a persons accounts[1] will eventually be needed for the general population. Anyone that's had to deal with this after the passing of a loved one knows how much of an added pain it can be.

[1]: At least the ones they want you to access...

LastPass can be configured to automatically share your vault with a nominated person after (n) days of inactivity, after trying to email you etc.

Wait, so it's a password storing service that's not encrypted?

I'd be curious to see how they've implemented this. It'd be possible to do this with cross signing encryption keys so that by supplying their credentials, they could unlock the keys to unlock your stored passwords

Given their previous monumentally bad security hole I wouldn't feel inclined to trust it.

There is a setup step that involves the other person, I set it up a while ago so can't remember exactly what was involved I'm afraid.

Google has inactive account manager, is that what you need?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

I was thinking more generally for disparate accounts. Email is just one example. Banking, utilities, iTunes, etc.

Email would cover a lot though as most of the rest allow for password resets if you control the email address on file.

google has it

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

Several services do this, including google and amazon:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7007852?hl=en

Isn't G Suite for two people like £3 a month?

I discovered G Suite accounts cannot use family plans on Google Play. I had to create a separate account for that.

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