Gmail, Drive, Photos, YouTube
It has a setting you can switch on today
Inactive Account Manager, about 5 minutes
- Open your Google Account and search for Inactive Account Manager, or go straight to myaccount.google.com/inactive.
- Pick how long Google should wait after your last sign-in: 3, 6, 12 or 18 months. Google tries to reach you first.
- Add up to 10 people and choose what each one may download: mail, photos, Drive files and more.
- Decide whether Google should delete the account afterwards.
If nobody planned
Family can send Google a request about a deceased person's account. Google may close it, and in some cases give out some content, but it never hands over the password, and every case is decided one by one.
Write this down for your family
- The Gmail address and password
- The recovery phone number and where that phone is
- Backup codes if two-step sign-in is on