Getting a lifetime of pictures somewhere permanent: one gathering place, a copy off the service, something offsite, plain formats, and a map someone else can read.
Criminals mine obituaries for identity theft and impostor calls. Here is the defense, starting with one letter to a credit bureau that covers all three.
What a legacy contact does on Apple, Google, and Facebook, what it covers and what it does not, and how to set yours up for your main accounts in one sitting.
Banks, Apple, Google, Facebook, and X each ask for different paperwork after a death. Here is what each one wants so you can gather it once.
What your family will need if something happens to you, the legacy tools the major platforms already offer, and where to keep it all safely.
What only the owner can access, who steps in and how they get authority, the documentation that turns chaos into a handover, and why to review it every year.
How to find every recurring charge on a deceased person's accounts and shut them down when nobody has the passwords, in the right order.
Keeping a loved one's phone number and device active matters more than any password. Here is why, and what to do in the first weeks before options close.
Without a Legacy Contact, Apple requires a court order naming Apple. Here is what both companies really require, and why a few minutes of setup beats a courthouse.
Almost none of this is urgent. Here are the few digital things that genuinely come first after a loss, and everything else you can handle at your own pace.