Subscriptions & Accounts

A seven-step digital estate planning checklist: legacy contacts, password access, devices, accounts and wishes, without writing down a single password.

Set up emergency access in Bitwarden, LastPass, Keeper or 1Password so a trusted person can reach your accounts if something happens to you.

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook each treat a deceased person’s account differently. What family can get, the deadlines, and what to set up now.

Name someone who can reach your iCloud photos, Gmail and Facebook after you die. Apple, Google and Facebook steps, about 20 minutes, checked November 2026.

The Subscriptions screen on an iPhone only shows plans that Apple bills. A streaming service you signed up for on its website, or a gym app paid by card, will not be there, however many times you look. Open Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, choose the plan and tap Cancel Subscription. Read the date

Uninstalling an app on Android does not stop its subscription. Google keeps charging until the plan is canceled in Google Play, under the same Google Account that bought it. Open the Play Store, tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions. Choose the plan, tap Cancel subscription and follow the prompts. If the

A bank app that says you have 6 subscriptions is usually wrong. It misses the yearly cloud renewal, the plan billed to an old card, and the trial that turns paid next week. Keep one list that combines your statements, your Apple and Google subscription screens and your email receipts. A tracker app can help

Forgotten subscriptions hide in three places: yearly renewals you paid once and forgot, plans billed through a company with a different name, and free trials that quietly turned paid. A one-month look at your bank app misses all three. A subscription audit means listing every recurring charge from 12 months of statements, your Apple and

An old account you never use can still be the “Sign in with” key to three other services, the recovery email for your bank, or the only place a receipt lives. Close it in the wrong order and you lock yourself out of something you do use. Before deleting an old account, export what you

Signing up took one tap. Canceling has taken three emails, a chatbot and a discount offer, and the charge came through again this month. Find out who actually bills you, cancel through that company’s own route, and keep proof of every attempt. If the charges continue, dispute them with your card issuer or bank in