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Each article focuses on what documents you need, what the platform expects, and where people typically get stuck, whether you are in the UK or anywhere else in the world.
What Happens When Nobody Closes the Accounts
Eight real situations from bereavement forums, names removed: the form that kept saying no, a sister's Instagram run by a stranger, seven phone contracts, and what would have helped.
How to Close a Loved One's Online Accounts When They Die
The whole picture: the two documents you need, every major platform at a glance, and the right order to work in, wherever you are in the world.
How to Delete or Memorialise a Deceased Person's Facebook Account
Both routes explained for families anywhere in the world: the two Meta forms, the documents accepted, and what to do when nothing happens.
How to Remove a Deceased Person's Instagram Account
Memorialisation and removal for families anywhere in the world, and why saving the photos comes first.
How to Close a Deceased Person's Google Account
One account holds Gmail, Photos, Drive, and YouTube. The deceased user request, Inactive Account Manager, and what closure destroys.
What Happens to a WhatsApp Account When Someone Dies?
No memorial option and a 120-day clock. How to save the chats first, delete the account, and avoid the reused number surprise.
How to Close a Deceased Person's Email Accounts
Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo compared, and why the inbox should be the last account you close, not the first.
How to Cancel a Deceased Person's Subscriptions
Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime, app store subscriptions and the rest. Which ones stop by themselves, which ones need a proper cancellation, and how to find them all.
How to Find Out Which Online Accounts Someone Had
Ten places the accounts hide, from the inbox and the bank statement to the password manager, and what you can and cannot do with a password you find.
What Happens to a PayPal Account When Someone Dies?
The balance belongs to the estate. Which documents PayPal asks for, how the money comes back, and what to do about PayPal Credit and automatic payments.
How to Close a Deceased Person's Amazon Account
Prime, Kindle, Audible, Alexa and the photos. What to save, what to cancel, and how to close the account with or without the password.
What Happens to a Microsoft, Outlook or Hotmail Account When Someone Dies?
Microsoft's next of kin process, the two year inactivity rule, OneDrive and Xbox, and how to close the account without ever needing the password.
What Happens to Social Media Accounts When Someone Dies in the UK?
A practical overview of what usually happens to accounts after death, why they stay live, and when families choose deletion or memorialisation.
A Checklist of Digital Accounts to Close After a Death
A practical list of social, email, cloud, shopping, and subscription accounts families often need to review.
Delete or Memorialise? How to Decide What Happens After Death
How families can think clearly about deletion, memorialisation, and preserving important material first.
What Documents Do You Need to Remove a Deceased Person's Online Accounts?
A practical guide to the document set families are commonly asked for across social and digital account cases.
How to Delete a Deceased Person's Facebook Account in the UK
A step by step guide to removal versus memorialisation, the documents you need, and what to do if Facebook does not respond.
How to Remove a Deceased Person's Instagram Account in the UK
A calmer route through Instagram removal, Meta document requests, and the points where families often get stuck.
How to Close a Deceased Person's Google or Gmail Account in the UK
Why Google cases are often broader than email alone and what to prepare before you start.
What Happens to an Apple ID and iCloud When Someone Dies?
Legacy Contacts, the iCloud photo library, Activation Lock, and the one warning to read before asking Apple to close anything.
How to Close a Deceased Person's TikTok Account
TikTok has no simple form for deceased accounts. The routes that work, what to attach, and why saving the videos comes first.
How to Memorialise or Close a Deceased Person's LinkedIn Account
Stopping the recruiter messages and work anniversaries: LinkedIn's two routes, who can request each, and the documents needed.
How to Deactivate a Deceased Person's X (Twitter) Account
X offers deactivation only, through a form and then an email. What X will and will not do for families.
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