{"id":138235,"date":"2021-11-11T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=138235"},"modified":"2021-11-11T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:49:16","slug":"ios-beta-adds-digital-legacy-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/ios-beta-adds-digital-legacy-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"IOS beta adds digital legacy feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will launch the Digital Legacy feature, which will allow users to assign heirs to their data in the event of death.\u00a0This was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/10\/22774873\/apple-digital-legacy-program-comes-to-ios15-iphones-macs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by<\/a>\u00a0The Verge.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/16_techweek.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The point is, when a user dies, there is no easy way to access the data stored on their devices and in iCloud.\u00a0The new Digital Legacy feature, first unveiled at WWDC this year, allows a user to choose up to five people who will have access to data stored in iCloud upon death.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-image aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/17_techweek.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>While the feature is running in iOS 15.2 beta, more Apple users will be able to use it when the update is fully launched.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Apple was criticized by the relatives of deceased users because of the ban on access to personal information.\u00a0Even the death certificate and the inheritance order did not guarantee access to the data.\u00a0Google and Facebook already have similar inheritance features.<\/p>\n<p>To activate Digital Legacy, heirs will still need a user&#8217;s death certificate and an access key.\u00a0However, as The Verge writes, the new function simplifies data inheritance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will launch the Digital Legacy feature, which will allow users to assign heirs to their data in the event of death.\u00a0This was\u00a0reported by\u00a0The Verge. The point is, when a user dies, there is no easy way to access the data stored on their devices and in iCloud.\u00a0The new Digital Legacy feature, first unveiled at [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/ios-beta-adds-digital-legacy-feature\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":138236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-138235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}