Free and already there
It comes inside the account you already use. Nothing to buy, nothing to remember to renew.
Comparison
Apple Legacy Contact: what it covers and what it doesn't.
If you have an iPhone, set it up today. It's free, it takes two minutes, and it gives the person you name a real path to what you keep in iCloud. Then it's worth knowing where it stops.
01What it does
What it does, and does well.
Two minutes to set up
You turn it on in the iPhone settings, and the person you name gets an access key.
Real access to iCloud
Photos, notes, documents and backups become available to that person.
02Where it stops
Where it stops.
None of this is a flaw in Apple. It's the scope they chose.
It needs a death certificate
While you're alive but unreachable, it does nothing. An accident, a coma or a disappearance don't trigger it.
It never opens your Keychain
The passwords stay locked. The thing most needed is the one thing it won't hand over.
Apple data only, and it expires
Not the bank, not the insurer, not the advisor. And access expires after three years.
03In parallel
Both of them, one beside the other.
| What | Apple Legacy Contact | My Lasts |
|---|---|---|
| When it opens | On a death certificate. | When you stop answering our messages, whatever the reason, or on the date you choose. |
| What it delivers | Your iCloud data, as it is. | A letter that explains the order, plus the files you assigned to each person. |
| Passwords | No. The Keychain stays shut. | Yes, if you upload them: it's the copy that opens once, for the people you named. |
| Which accounts it covers | Apple's. | All of them, wherever they live, because you write them down. |
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What to do with both.
Leave the Legacy Contact on: it's the cleanest path to what lives inside iCloud. Put in My Lasts what Apple will never hand over, which is the account map, the credentials and the note about what to do first.
Set up both.
The free one covers its own platform. My Lasts covers the rest and explains the order.
3 months at no charge. Then $90 the first year.
My Lasts is not a legal document and does not replace a will.