Your accounts, photos and money, after you
Almost everything now sits behind a password, a phone code or a company’s terms of service. This guide explains, step by step, how to make sure the right people can reach what matters, and what to do if you are the one dealing with it after a death.
Planning ahead
An afternoon of set-up saves your family months of forms and court orders.
Someone has died
What to do first, which documents companies ask for, and what is and isn’t possible.
The guides
Plan it nowSet things up now so your family can reach what matters.8 guides
PlatformsGoogle, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, email, cloud, domains and money apps.11 guides
After a deathDocuments, phones, computers and the order to deal with accounts.5 guides
ComparePassword managers, legacy services and where to keep the master password.3 guides
By countryWhat the law says in the United States, the United Kingdom and the EU.3 guides
Free templates
Three printable PDFs to fill in by hand: a digital asset inventory, a letter of instruction for digital assets and an account checklist for the people dealing with it. No sign-up, no email address. Get the templates.
How this guide works
Every guide is checked against the providers’ own help pages, government guidance and the law itself, and shows when it was last reviewed. Companies change their processes, so each guide links to the official page you will need. The guide is independent and general: it is not legal advice. For crypto, see our sister site, Crypto Inheritance Guide.