Mirror.It allows people to leave “legacy contacts” where someone else can access your account and personal information when you die.Apple Cloud Services vice-president Mike Abbott said this week: “We don’t often think about it, but it’s important that we can easily pass down information to family members or friends when we pass away.“You’ll now be able to add people to your account as legacy contacts so when you’re gone, they can simply request access and your information can be passed along, quickly and easily.”In the past, Apple has usually required a court order and a grant of probate to allow access to its cloud storage in the UK.To prevent the need for this, lawyers advise making “digital wills” that identify executors who can manage.
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