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How to pass on your data to loved ones with iPhone Digital Legacy feature

by Arthur Geffen | Dec 14, 2021 | Digital Assets

Starting with iOS 15.2, Apple includes a way to add Legacy Contacts to your iCloud account that will give friends or family access to most of your data after you pass away. Let’s look at how to pass iPhone data to loved ones, what’s included, what’s not, how the...

Apple’s Legacy Contacts Feature Is Nearing Release

by Arthur Geffen | Oct 6, 2021 | Digital Assets

Apple appears to be getting ready to launch its Legacy Contacts feature — a feature that will allow people to set someone else as a contact that will be able to access their data in the event of death.

Her dying husband left her the house and the car, but he forgot the Apple password – The Washington Post

by Arthur Geffen | Jan 21, 2016 | Digital Assets

  After Peggy Bush’s husband, David, succumbed to lung cancer in August, she liked to play card games on their iPad to pass the time. The 72-year-old resident of Victoria, B.C., was on an app one day when it suddenly stopped working and she was unable to reload...

How to assign a ‘legacy contact’ in Facebook – CNET

by Arthur Geffen | Feb 17, 2015 | Digital Assets

  Better safe than sorry: give someone you trust the keys to your profile page in case the worst happens. How to assign a ‘legacy contact’ in Facebook – CNET

Facebook ‘Legacy Contact’ Lets You Choose Who Will Manage Your Account After You Die | Redmond Pie

by Arthur Geffen | Feb 12, 2015 | Digital Assets

HOW TO CONTROL ANOTHER OF YOUR DIGITAL ASSETS AFTER YOU PASS Facebook is now letting users designate an heir to their throne, if they happen to pass away. What has been happening to Facebook users’ accounts after they have passed away, or in case they do, is one...

Google Public Policy Blog: Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager

by Arthur Geffen | Apr 15, 2013 | Digital Assets, Technology

  Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. So today, we’re launching a new feature that makes it easy to tell Google what you want done...
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