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  • Apple launches Digital Legacy tool, allows users access to Apple ID accounts of deceased friends and family

    Apple launches Digital Legacy tool, allows users access to Apple ID accounts of deceased friends and family

    Apple has recently released a Digital Legacy tool, which allows users to request access to a deceased friend or family member’s Apple ID account.

    If you’re the legacy contact for someone who’s passed away, you can request access to their account as well as have the Activation Lock removed from their devices. Users will need the Legacy Contact Access Key, and can contact Apple for assistance with this if need be.

    If you’ve had a chance to try this, please let us know about your experience in the comments.

    Via digital-legacy.apple.com and support.apple.com

  • Law enforcement officials have begun using the fingerprints of dead iPhone owners to unlock devices

    Your fingerprint is your fingerprint, even if you’re not among the living.

    A new report released on Thursday revealed that U.S. law enforcement agencies have indeed used the fingers of corpses to unlock iPhones and obtain evidence.

    These efforts are said to date back to November 2016, when the FBI attempted to use the finger of Ohio State University attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan to unlock his iPhone 5s, according to FBI forensics specialist Bob Moledor. That didn’t work, since by the time legal authority had been obtained, Touch ID was disabled without re-entering a passcode. Data was later retrieved with the help of a forensics lab.

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