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iOS 15 Lets Your Family Access Your Data If You Die
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no excited but glad it’s happening. I’ve over 11,000 photos and counting on icloud and I’m sure my wife would want them.
I know many might not thing this is something serious or important. Or maybe they think it's just for old people. My wife passed away last year, we were both 49. She has a HUGE collection of pictures of the kids 3 kids (that are still in school-we got married later in life). The pictures started when she got her first iphone. All I wanted was to make sure I had access to the pictures. I don't care about her messages etc. We both knew each others passwords etc, had full access to each others stuff. So, I was able to access her stuff and found a solution to keeping the pictures with out having to access her apple account all the time. I ended up installing google photos on her phone and backed up all her pictures to my google account...she had 15K worth. Now not all are going to be kept. But, it should would have been nice to just have a way to access that stuff for ever with out jumping through hoops and adding all that to my account.
Maybe some will not want this, great, not a required thing to opt into. But, for many, this will make life after a love one passes easier as so much of it is digital now.
Maybe some will not want this, great, not a required thing to opt into. But, for many, this will make life after a love one passes easier as so much of it is digital now.
Some people use levity when talking about a close to the heart subject. Using a mix of levity doesn't necessarily mean the respondent doesn't take the subject seriously.
Expecting others to react as you would (or think they should) can often lead to a lot of frustration.
I added my Mom as a Legacy Contact last night, but wasn't near a printer, so didn't bother going that far. Interesting.
A great tool is something like BitWarden that lets you share passwords and login info with a spouse... if I punch my ticket, my wife will need passwords immediately, and she has them now and doesn't need to stress about it.
Can someone here agree to remote into my computer and clear my Internet history?
Can someone here agree to remote into my computer and clear my Internet history?
How is it triggered? Does someone have to bring a death certificate to an Apple Store? Or maybe AppleWatch Series 7 includes a deathclock?
Where is that option in Bitwarden? I don't see it. I do have my account information printed out in case I should die before my parents and the rest of the family.
Lost their minds? Or maybe its the result of WFH for almost a whole year?
Ye that’s what I meant. It is a clear evidence WHM is not productive and should be ditched! People became too lazy in the last year.
"Your legacy contact will need to provide an access key and a copy of your death certificate to access data from your account."
Doesn't say where, but I haven't tried printing the access key out yet. NightFox said they printed it out, so maybe the information's on the access key printout, or maybe it's just not known at this time since iOS 15 isn't public yet.
iOS 9.0 beta 3 removes the keyboard trackpad feature on iPhone 6 and below.
Sounds like a good feature, but privacy anyone, just kid of 'breaks" the trust habit doesn't it ?
You build up for all this time, then you spoil it by leaving your data to someone that can betray you ... It's a good feature, but my only question is, what happens when that data is not used properly ?
Having said that for me it doesn't really matter know has access. as my phone doesn't have any user data stored anyway
I think Lastpass just do some kind of "if an account is not used for x" then the feature becomes active. but would be kinda strange if you just get back from a holiday to find you can longer access your own Apple account..
"What.. Apple thinks i'm dead?"
You build up for all this time, then you spoil it by leaving your data to someone that can betray you ... It's a good feature, but my only question is, what happens when that data is not used properly ?
Having said that for me it doesn't really matter know has access. as my phone doesn't have any user data stored anyway
I think Lastpass just do some kind of "if an account is not used for x" then the feature becomes active. but would be kinda strange if you just get back from a holiday to find you can longer access your own Apple account..
"What.. Apple thinks i'm dead?"
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Oh, you still have THOSE cat photos? We told you to delete them!
Well, at least they have reasons!
Well it's all just semantics. "IF" they die first, then you didn't really die (yet), right?
Didn't they just freeze his head?
Ummm....are you waiting for a feature?
Nobody stores their murder evidence on their phone. Do they?
I lost both of my parents. And I find that humor helps lessen the heartbreak.
So joke on, people!
Again, does NOBODY talk over this stuff with their loved ones? Hell, you can get a "death kit" from just about any attorney. No, it's not a box with bleach and towels. But those might be helpful...
Why not just call the card company/banks and have the account closed, or have the number changed and the account placed into one person's name?
They just need an official death certificate. Why is this so hard, people?
Get an attorney's help. They don't charge THAT much to get you and your executor started on the process.
Right. I'm just not going to start sniping at somebody about their use of levity and humor. Hell, death can be funny. And it's only because humans are funny!
And yet, this is just about ALL we see anymore. It's cancel culture at its worst. Those 5 people on Twitter and Facebook, for example. Say you like waffles, and they bot up 5 million tweets saying you should be canceled for hating on pancakes. Or worse yet, for your blatant discrimination against hotcakes!
Or you could just take your wife to visit your attorney one of these days, set things up, and then take your wife out for lunch. Why is this so hard?
Sure, we'll get right on that. Don't worry about those videos of naked dancing squirrels; we'll sanitize your hard drives of all that stuff. Well, except for that one USB that you misplaced back in 2015. You know, the one with the vinyl gloves and the kangaroos? Yeah, THAT one's gonna be messy!
I hope they make purchased content available for download. Would be nice to leave my music and movie collection behind.
With iOS 15, Apple is introducing a new Digital Legacy program that designates people as Legacy Contacts to let them access your Apple ID account and personal information in the event of your death.
This feature does not appear to be live at the current time, but based on Apple's description, it will give your friends or family members access to your photos and other important data after your death. This is an important new addition to iOS because right now, if someone passes away with a locked iPhone, iPad, or Mac, it's difficult if not impossible to get access to the device, even with access to a death certificate.
Digital Legacy will let your loved ones manage your data to get access to key accounts and personal items like photos that would otherwise be lost.
Management of digital data after death is something that Apple has been lacking, and with so much data online, it's become an increasingly important topic. Social networks like Twitter and Facebook have tools for setting legacy contacts that can archive an account, and Google maintains an Inactive Account Manager that releases control of an account to a designated person after a set period of time.
Alongside the Digital Legacy program, Apple is also letting users set Account Recovery Contacts. People set as an Account Recovery Contact will be able to help you regain access to your Apple ID should you forget your password.
Both of these features will be available when iOS 15 launches this fall.
Article Link: iOS 15 Lets Your Family Access Your Data If You Die
Sure! You have to add the people you trust if you want them to have the info. Otherwise it is not going to be given to anybody.
Personally I don't know why people retain old messages in iMessage or WhatsApp. I delete mine daily.
I hope you don’t work for Apple!
Apple Robots would end trapped in a walled garden, due to the glue parts unable to repair and extend themselves, and search the web for answers all the time.
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