Digital Legacy Planning Blog

Use this phone passcode estate planning checklist to document device access, backups, recovery paths, and privacy boundaries before your family needs them.

Compare password manager emergency access options after death, including trusted contacts, waiting periods, emergency kits, and safer family planning steps.

Learn how authenticator app recovery after death works, including backup codes, cloud backup, transfer options, MFA devices, and estate planning steps.

Learn how two-factor authentication affects digital estate access after death, including recovery codes, trusted devices, authenticator apps, phone numbers, and executor planning.

Learn how passkeys change digital estate planning, what families can and cannot recover, and how to prepare account access without unsafe password sharing.

Learn where online account beneficiary planning works, where it does not, and how to coordinate POD, TOD, retirement, financial, and digital account instructions.

Build a practical digital asset inventory for estate planning with the right categories, access notes, priorities, and instructions for your family or executor.

Understand how RUFADAA affects digital assets, executor access, online tools, private messages, terms of service, and practical estate planning.

Learn what fiduciary access to digital assets means, what executors can request, what providers may limit, and how to plan ahead.