In an increasingly digital world, companies are establishing more detailed protocols so that it is clear what happens to our data and social networks in the event of death. On some portals like Facebook you have several options such as leaving your profile as a commemoration, butwhat happens to all the messages whatsapp leaves stored on your iphone?
four month margin
WhatsApp’s policy hasn’t changed much over time and is simple: if you don’t touch the phone you have WhatsApp on for four months, your account is deleted
You have a chance of recovering those messages if you log back into WhatsApp using the same phone number, but the normal thing when someone dies is that the carrier deactivates the phone number and recycles it for someone to use. other uses it.
However, I personally know people who have preferred keep the phone number (and their passwords duly noted by agreement) to maintain access to important data of the deceased. It’s a way to keep all that WhatsApp history as long as you keep the deceased holder’s SIM card.
If you don’t have access to data, you can be a digital representative
Another way to do this is to set the Apple ID to have a digital representative, a new option that arrived late last year with iOS 15.2. Thanks to this, another person can have legal access to the data of another deceased person. The key: this should ideally be done before the person dies.
If on the other hand you want delete whatsapp account of a deceased Before these four months of inactivity are over and you have access to your mobile, you can do so from the WhatsApp application itself. Simply open the application settings, ‘Account’ section and click on ‘Delete account’:
In almost no access to phone or whatsapp account you can contact the technical service of the application via email [email protected] or web chat with them. You’ll need to provide proof of the person’s death to access the deletion, which can be precisely simplified with Apple’s digital representative option.