> While there probably isn't anything on them, it's always been a pain to not know.

I know I wouldn't care because I'd be dead, but I really do not want my family getting on to my personal devices after I'm dead. Those are things that I will never give them the passwords for, not everything is their business.

yeah same here. Do I have to give out my passwords, or can I just make a doc with important things?

Doesn't matter as much what you do or how, but more importantly that you've communicated it to the people who will have to deal with your stuff if you were to kick the bucket tomorrow.

My parents simply made a list of passwords on a piece of paper, buried with the other important papers.

it depends on where the important stuff is.

i have all the family photos on encrypted devices, and the most efficient way to share them is to share the passwords for those devices. my phone they don't need because the important stuff from the phone is backed up anyways, so they just need that backup.

so i guess the easiest way is to keep separate backups of stuff you want to keep private and stuff you want to share.

I have a doc, which is password-protected and shared with my wife. It contains details of bank accounts, how to access shares, who we're insured with and passwords / passcodes for things she might need access to.

I think that's fine; albeit a potentially awkward conversation, I personally would rather have known "hey, here's what you can get into, here is what is private" but we never talked about it at all.

Especially important to communicate that in your case, on the off chance they want to hire a data recovery firm in some hope of saving wedding photos or something

> Especially important to communicate that in your case, on the off chance they want to hire a data recovery firm in some hope of saving wedding photos or something

I share any photos with them they might want, but I hopeful that Apple's security setup prevents any practical data recovery. I know my family too well, if I explicitly said "this is private" they'd be trying to get in the moment I was cold.

There's nothing bad on my devices, but there's lots they don't need to know about me.

Imagine once bronies age enough that they kick the bucket en masse and their families spend tens of thousands on data recovery only to discover "damn, that's a lot of horse porn."

Same. I'd also like them to throw all of my objects with locks on them into the nearest lake.