Proton customers can now add ’emergency’ contacts for backup entry

In case of emergency, you’ll now be capable of designate sure trusted individuals who can achieve entry to your Proton account. In keeping with yesterday’s announcement publish, Proton’s new Emergency Entry function helps as much as 5 trusted contacts… with some caveats.

For one, you possibly can solely designate individuals who have Proton accounts of their very own, as they’ll want to make use of their Proton account to entry yours. With entry granted, a trusted contact can then log into your Proton account everytime you’re unavailable or incapacitated, whether or not resulting from journey, sickness, or (within the worst case) demise.

Emergency Entry will ship you a notification every time a trusted contact tries to entry your account, and in the event you don’t explicitly reply with a denial, entry will likely be granted. You’ll be able to select whether or not contacts can achieve entry instantly or whether or not they should wait a sure variety of days, weeks, or months earlier than entry is granted.

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The opposite huge catch is that Emergency Entry is barely obtainable to paying Proton prospects. Any paid plan qualifies for this function, so if you need it, go forward and improve your Proton Go, Mail, VPN, or Drive plans. Alternatively, take a look at Proton Limitless for full premium options throughout all Proton apps and providers for simply $9.99/month.