Guides to organize your digital inheritance
Practical articles to understand what digital inheritance is, how to prepare it, and what happens to your accounts and platforms if something happens to you.
Guides
What Is Digital Inheritance and Why You Should Plan for It
Learn what digital inheritance is, what your digital estate includes, and how to start organizing it so your family isn't left with a puzzle and no instructions.
Digital Legacy Checklist: Get Everything in Order
A practical, actionable checklist for organizing accounts, critical documents, passwords, and beneficiaries before someone else has to do it for you.
Digital Will: What It Is and How to Write One
What a digital will is, how it's different from digital inheritance, whether it holds up legally, and what to actually put in it.
Passwords and Digital Legacy: Sharing Them Safely
Why jotting passwords in a document is a bad idea, what password managers actually offer for emergencies, and how to plan around two-factor authentication.
By platform
What Happens to Your Apple ID and iCloud When You Die
How Apple's Legacy Contact works, what happens without one, and why Activation Lock can complicate access to inherited devices.
What Happens to Cryptocurrency When the Owner Dies
Self-custody vs. exchange custody, why a lost seed phrase is unrecoverable, and the real options for planning cryptocurrency inheritance.
What Happens to Digital Banking and Money Apps When You Die
Why digital-only banks and fintechs complicate estate processes, the general steps heirs must take, and why they should never use your login.
What Happens to a Facebook Account After Someone Dies
How Facebook memorialization works, what a legacy contact can and can't do, how to request removal, and what happens if no one takes action.
What Happens to Your Google Account When You Die
How Google's Inactive Account Manager works, what your family can do without it, and what it means for Gmail, Drive, and Photos.
What Happens to an Instagram Account After Someone Dies
How Instagram memorialization works, why it still lacks Facebook's legacy contact for most users, and how to request memorialization or removal.
What Happens to Your Microsoft Account When You Die
Microsoft has no legacy contact like Google or Apple. Here's how the Next of Kin process for Outlook and OneDrive actually works after a death.
What Happens to WhatsApp When the Account Holder Dies
Why WhatsApp has no memorialization process, when an inactive account gets deleted, and why encrypted chats depend on the device, not the company.
