iOS 15 Lets Your Family Access Your Data If You Die

[iapplelove]

Apple employees have lost their minds during the pandemic, apparently. I have never been so disappointed with iOS and macOS releases. Apart from lacking anything exciting, none of the bugs or the quirks I have been experiencing with iOS 14 and Big Sur have been fixed in the new updates.

Sorry to say, but they lost their way well before covid.

 

[LiveM]

It will be interesting to see what information Apple requires in order to determine that an Apple ID owner has actually died.

Sounds like a feature for the next Apple Watch. Ha!

 

[RickDEGH]

I’m sure most commenting here are in their 20s - 40s. This is iOS 15, I’m sure iOS 45 will come with something else, to probably make this redundant, if you’re opposed to this feature.

 

[MrGuder]

Reading these responses are more fun than the article itself. 😂

 

[DMinTX]

But I still can’t combine my pre-cloud purchase account with my cloud-era account. Because I am a long time users, my world remains convoluted.

 

[revs]

This is a brilliant idea. I've always worried about all the family photos that are on various devices that would be lost.

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

*when.

*if - Believe it or not there will be people who outlive the Apple Company and it's 'innovative' smart devices.

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

No ones getting my data, am gonna freeze like Walt Disney

Does anyone know what year he requested to be thawed out?

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

IF YOU DIE

While they are still in business, yes.

 

[doalwa]

 

[russell_314]

I hope they make purchased content available for download. Would be nice to leave my music and movie collection behind.

I think this is still being hashed out in the legal system but as of now you don’t actually buy the content. You are buying a license to view the contact and then are allowed to download it. When you’re dead you no longer can view the content thus the license is invalid

 

[katbel]

Reading these responses are more fun than the article itself. 😂

One of the most funny thread ever ! 🤣

 

[SegNerd]

"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.

Thank you for the info. I was hoping maybe you could just say, "Hey Siri, I died."

 

[matrix07]

I'm more interested in Recovery Mode. Really curious how it works.

 

[Apple blogger]

Is this for all users or only iCloud+?

 

[Mobilis18]

Digital legacy is gonna be our new experience cause we didn't have a chance to deliver the data to someone after death. But iCloud is still a pretty centralized data storage system. Bank of Memories startup has already launched digital inheritance in their decentralized cloud storage.