LastPass Password Manager: Account recovery frustrations and poor support
Users are experiencing significant difficulties in recovering their accounts due to an ineffective recovery system and poor customer support. This has led to frustration, prompting some to consider canceling their subscriptions and seeking alternative products.
8 different people have complained about this since 26 May 2025, most recently on 12 Sept 2026.
- “The recovery system is useless, doesn’t work.”
- “Overall it’s one to avoid as the help is absolutely useless.”
- “I will now have to cancel my subscription and use an alternative product.”
8 people in 8 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition low
The pain
shares of 8 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 8 people using LastPass Password Manager
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 88% of posts are complaints · pain score low (30/100)
- Since
- 26 May 2025 → 12 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- LastPass Password Manager
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 13% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint788%
- Request113%
Sources
8 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…working again it soon stops working when I login on my other devices. The recovery system is useless, doesn’t work. Lastpass has caused more stress and wasted time this month than any other software I’ve ever used. The only reason I now want to login is to cancel the subscription and never use it again. Stick with…
Strong complaintFrustrated…x issue Yes it stores passwords and autofills but so do many others. Overall it’s one to avoid as the help is absolutely useless. You can’t get help to resolve account issues because you have to login but you can’t login because of their stupid process. So stuck! And you cannot extract your own data to protect you…
Strong complaintFrustrated…it won’t let me do from a new device without the old email address. I will now have to cancel my subscription and use an alternative product.
…hey won’t help you because you can’t login. There are better options. Don’t waste your time.
…ears I had to wipe my account as they didn’t enforce recovery set up. Responses were slow and some times unsupportive. Probably won’t renew
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score 40.8 → 37.8 · 10 Oct 2026, 12:00 → 13:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Account recovery frustrations and poor support a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 8 different people described it independently, in 8 mentions, the earliest from 26 May 2025 and the most recent from 12 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 61/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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