Resources

OpenID Foundation guidance for identifying digital assets, recording wishes, and preparing trusted people to act.

A free Digital Legacy Association leaflet with approachable first steps for planning what happens to online accounts and digital possessions.

STEP guidance on legacy settings, conversations with family and friends, and protecting important digital memories.

Choose someone who can request access to data in your Apple Account after your death.

Decide when Google should consider your account inactive and what should happen afterward.

Select someone to manage parts of a memorialized Facebook profile.

Give a trusted person a controlled way to request access to a Bitwarden vault during an emergency.

Prepare family organizers and members to recover account access when help is needed.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resources for planning how finances will be managed if illness or incapacity makes help necessary.

Guides for people serving as financial caregivers, agents under a power of attorney, guardians, trustees, or government benefit fiduciaries.

A FEMA toolkit for organizing household, financial, legal, and medical information before an emergency.

American College of Trust and Estate Counsel guidance for people assisting someone who has died or become disabled.