What the industry calls “grief tech” has been building toward exactly this. Startups have been doing it for years. Now one of the largest companies on Earth holds the legal right to do it at scale. 

What you can do

Facebook has a legacy contact feature that most people have never touched. Meta buried it deeper in 2026. Here’s the current path. 

On Facebook: Settings & Privacy > Settings > Accounts Center > Personal Details > Account ownership and control > Memorialization. (Depending on your device, OS, and more, these steps might be a tad different. Poke around until you find it.) 

From there, you have two choices. Assign a legacy contact, a trusted person who manages your profile after you’re gone. Or choose to have your account permanently deleted after your death. Either puts you in control. Leaving it blank gives that decision to Meta.