Digital Legacy

This coincides with today's release of 15.2 Beta 2 which adds legacy contacts:

https://www.iclarified.com/83330/apple-releases-ios-152-beta...

Is there something similar for Google? I would love to download my mother's email. She died while I was in jail and while I know her username and password it's no longer enough to get into a Gmail account since they're a lot more secure these days.

Github has a similar thing called an account "successor" you can setup. More info here: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...

This is probably useful for expected outcomes, but maybe not the more tragic, sudden deaths. Giving parents a chance to deal with tragic circumstances, please offer alternative ways, such as death certificate and family identification, could be done with a notarized service.

Ouch. I guess this has been around long enough, we must also assume the sad duties of sorting through digital belongings, too.

Definitely a much needed service.

OTOH, I hope it is secure because it will absolutely be an attack vector.

All the support links on that page seem to be broken.

I wonder if there's some form of verification if someone is trying to use this feature to take over an account, because otherwise it is prone to abuse.

To save your family from having to deal with this please use a password manager.

Its super easy to write down the master password somewhere where they can easily find it.