So much information on people who might be wondering what happened at the time of death.
Who gets the information? Can you delete it or forward it to someone else? Apple Digital Legacy Program helps maintain ‘secure’ user data information after someone dies.
Here we tell you all about Apple Digital Legacy Program: What is the Legacy Apple Digital program? Simply put, this is a feature that allows Apple devices to forward their digital data to family members, friends, or contact their choices.
Apple has announced features in June 2021 but was launched late in 2021.
With a digital heritage, you can ensure that the data remains safe with the people you nominated.
Previously, it used to be very difficult to get access to someone’s data if they occurred but the digital heritage changed all that.
This is like a digital version A will be related to your data with Apple.
How do you use the Apple Digital Legacy Program? First of all, you must nominate inheritance contacts.
Whoever you nominated will be able to contact Apple and request a copy of all important data that you might save in iCloud.
You can nominate more than one inheritance contacts and don’t need to use Apple devices.
Inheritance contacts will get the access key generated after being selected by the user.
To get access to data, they need to show a certificate of death.
Apple will then approve iCloud’s requests and data available for legacy contacts for three years.
After three years, the data will be removed permanently by Apple.
What data is available for legacy contacts? Almost all data has been stored in iCloud available.
To clarify, this is all inheritance contacts will be able to access – iCloud photos, notes, letters, contacts, calendars, reminders, messages in iCloud, call history, files stored in iCloud sound drives, safari bookmarks and reading lists, and iCloud reserves.
Whoever contacts inheritance will be able to download a copy of the data or can access it at iCloud.com.
Furthermore, iCloud backup can be returned to iOS, iPados or Mac devices.
What data is not available for inheritance contacts in some data and information that will not be available by Apple.
This includes licensed media – music, books, and other data.
They also will not be able to get payment information such as Apple Pay or Apple ID payment information.
Any information on the key chain, such as a Wi-Fi password, Safari password, credit card number will also not be available.
How to add legacy to the process of the process is rather simple.
All you need to do is go to Settings> Tap on your name> Password and Security.
Here you will see the option to add inheritance contacts and you can choose whoever you want to nominate.
Keep in mind that the feature is available for those who have at least iOS 15.2, iPados 15.2, and MacOS 12.1 installed on their devices.
What to do if you are a legacy contact? If you are a legacy contact and someone who nominates you unfortunately dies then you have to go to Apple’s special digital heritage site.
Here you must provide a copy of the death certificate and the access key created when you are nominated.
Apple will then give you legacy contact contact Apple through which you can access the data that has died.
Explained: What is the Apple digital heritage program and what it means to you
