Apple Creates A Feature That Can Manage Users' Digital Legacy After Death

YOGYAKARTA - Apple is a technology company that produces various kinds of smartphones and computers. The company founded by Steve Jobs is known for the security of digital data from its users.

In many cases, the digital data left by the owner of an Apple smartphone or other device, cannot be accessed by family members in order to maintain the privacy of the owner, especially if the family does not have access to an iCloud account.

To solve this problem, Apple has created a special program in iCloud, namely Legacy Contact. The program allows account owners to give permission to their family members to access digital accounts they once had.

Users can also name up to 5 people who are allowed to view their digital data, such as social media accounts stored in the storage space and other data.

To use the program, users can update your iPhone operating system to iOS 15.2 version, and they can follow the steps that the VOI team has compiled below to grant access to family members, after the user dies.

How to Set Up Legacy Contacts in iCloud

As explained earlier, to set your digital data so that it can be accessed by family members after you die, users can update your smartphone's operating system to iOS 15.2.

Next, you can log into your iCloud account and enter the Settings menu. Click the profile menu located at the top of your iCloud homepage.

After that, select the Password & Security menu. To continue the process of setting up your digital data legacy, users can select the Legacy Contact menu.

After entering the page, the user can add the name of the person who can access your digital data after the user has died, and no one will know the access to your digital data.

In addition to entering people who can inherit digital data, users can also see contacts who have listed your name and contacts as inheritors of other people's digital data, in the same menu.

In the next section, a pop-up menu will appear asking if you are sure to enter the name and contact who can access the user's digital data after you die.

Click add Legacy Contact, if you are sure of the name and contact you registered. Eventually, the person who is given access to your account will need to have your access key and death certificate.

If the contact you give permission to access your digital data also uses an iPhone device with the iOS 15.2 operating system, the access key will automatically be stored in their storage space.

Meanwhile, if not, then you have to tell that person the access key to your account, so that he or she can enter your account and show your death certificate so that they can view user data through Legacy Contact.