If I Can't Speak
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Your phone, email and photos: the platform tools that actually decide access

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Here's a fact most paper organizers get wrong: a letter in your drawer saying "my niece may have my photos" does not open your photo account. The big platforms have their own official tools for exactly this, and — under a law adopted in most states (the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act) — the platform's own setting generally comes first, ahead of instructions written elsewhere. Setting the tools is the real work. It takes about fifteen minutes each.

The three settings to make

And the one tool that rules them all daily

A password manager with its emergency-access feature turned on: you stay the only person who can see your passwords day to day, but your chosen person can request access in an emergency, which you (or a waiting period) approve. Record in your organizer that you use one, which one, and where the master access path is documented. Never the master password itself, written anywhere.

What to tell your attorney, someday

If you work with an attorney on your documents, one sentence earns its keep: ask them to include digital-asset authorization language. It's a known, standard topic now — and it's the layer an organizer can't and shouldn't try to be. Our organizer-is-not-a-will guide draws that line plainly.

The kit's Home & Access section includes step-by-step worksheets for each of these settings, with room to record what you chose and when. See the Organizer Kit.