Digital access and your online life: what your executor will need (UK)
This section covers the digital side of your life that can cause real problems for executors and families. Phones, email, password managers, cloud storage, social media and online accounts now hold a lot of the information that used to live in paper files.
The aim is to help you think through what your executor will actually need access to and where they might get stuck, without telling you to write down every password.
- Phones, email and password managers
- Cloud storage and important documents
- Online banking and money related logins (at a high level)
- Social media and messaging accounts
- Other key online services that matter to your estate
Planning Ahead
Start here if you are trying to get better organised while you are alive and want to make things easier for your future executor:
- Digital life: what your executor will need access to
- Digital access: phone, email and password manager (UK)
- Creating your “who’s who” note for your executor
Dealing with a Death
Start here if you are an executor, main organiser or close family member trying to get into the accounts and information you actually need:
- Digital life: what your executor will need access to
- Social media and messaging after someone dies – FAQs (UK)
- Social media scams and fake profiles after a death – how to protect your family (UK)
Core guides: digital access and online life
These guides give you the bigger picture. They are useful both if you are planning ahead and if you are already supporting someone after a death.
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