Apple is ensuring the right of survivorship as it will soon allow users to transfer their iCloud data when they die. This feature known as the “Digital Legacy program” lets users pick up to five people who can access their iCloud account when they pass away.

Prior to this service, all data of a deceased user goes with them, and there was no way users can unlock their iOS devices without their passcodes. The digital legacy program will be arriving in iOS 15.2, earlier announced during Apple’s WWDC event this year.

Contacts granted by a deceased iCloud user can have access to their photos, documents and purchases stored in their iCloud account. That aside, to activate Digital Legacy, Apple requires proof of death and an access key.

Apple’s iOS 15.2 IS still in beta testing, it should be released to the general public very soon. Here’s how to activate the digital legacy program when iOS 15.2 is out from a Mac or iPhone:

• On your iOS device, go to Settings > select [your name] > Password & Security.
• On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Apple ID > Password & Security.

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• Under Legacy Contact, follow the instructions to add a Legacy Contact. If you use Family Sharing, you can choose a family member from the list. If the person isn’t there, you can add someone using their email or phone number.

• Notify your Legacy Contact and share the generated access key via Messages. If they accept, a copy of the access key will automatically be saved in their Apple ID settings. If they decline, you will receive a notification. The access key is required to get into your account if you pass away.

• While you can add a Legacy Contact who isn’t on iOS 15.2, they won’t be able to save the access key in the settings on their device, so you should provide it to them in another way.

Families can now have so much closure with access to their loved ones data after they pass away. The old mandatory days of a death certificate and court order confirming a right of inheritance, that may not be approved by Apple is long gone.

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