Free household handover gap checker

Twelve yes-or-no questions about what your partner could do if you were suddenly unavailable. You get a short, ordered to-do list of the gaps. It runs in your browser: nothing you tick is uploaded or saved.

Getting in

1. Does your partner know which password manager you use and how to open it? Yes No

2. Is emergency access, or a shared family vault, set up for them? Yes No

3. Is the master password or emergency kit somewhere they can physically find, written as a location, not left in your head? Yes No

4. If your two-step login lives on your phone, are backup or recovery codes stored somewhere other than that phone? Yes No I don't use phone-based 2FA

5. Could they unlock your phone and laptop if they needed to? Yes No

6. Have you set up the built-in options: an Apple Legacy Contact (if you use Apple) and Google Inactive Account Manager (if you use Google)? Yes No I use neither

Keeping things running

7. Is there a list of subscriptions, domains and other things that renew automatically, with dates? Yes No

8. If you own a domain name, is its registrar, account email and renewal date written down for someone else? Yes No I own none

9. Could someone other than you get a deleted file or the family photos back from a backup, using written steps? Yes No

10. If you run a NAS, home server or self-hosted apps, is there a note for each saying what it does and whether it is safe to switch off? Yes No I run none

11. Is there a named person, with a phone number, who has agreed to help your partner with the technology? Yes No

12. Have you checked any of this in the last 6 months, for example by trying to open the vault using only your written instructions? Yes No

How to read the result

Each unanswered or "No" item is a gap, listed most important first. The order follows how much it would block someone from getting started: being able to open the password manager and the two-step codes comes before tidying subscriptions. The score is only a rough guide to what to do first; it is not a security audit and does not look at your accounts.

What to do next

Write where things are, never the secrets themselves. A sheet that lists passwords is a risk to everyone it is meant to protect. For the details of what Bitwarden, Google and Apple will and will not hand over, read what your family needs to take over your tech. If you want the sheets already laid out for this (start-here page, access map, account and renewal registers, backups, and a keep-or-shut-down card for each self-hosted service), see the Handover Binder, $9. This is a planning aid, not legal advice and not a will.

Free household handover gap checker

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