How to protect your Apple Music account while you are alive

Apple's Legacy Contact reaches iCloud-stored data after death, but purchased content such as music and subscriptions are among the categories a Legacy Contact cannot access, so no designation reaches Apple Music.^{1, 2}

With Family Sharing, the organizer and up to five other family members can share access to Apple services; the organizer is the one billed for the family plan. It is a living-account arrangement, not a transfer of ownership.³

Only the Apple Music family subscription can be shared; an individual Apple Music subscription cannot be shared, and neither can a student subscription.⁴

Purchase Sharing covers music from the iTunes Store, so the group can reach songs a member bought while the account is active, except hidden purchases and items no longer available in the iTunes Store.⁴

The Media Services Terms let Family Sharing and Purchase Sharing reach up to six members. An individual Apple Music membership streams on one device at a time; a family membership streams on up to six devices at a time.⁵

When a member leaves or is removed from the family, the remaining members may no longer be able to access that member's content, including content bought with the organizer's payment method.⁵

A member who leaves a family group loses access to services the family shares, such as an Apple Music family subscription, and when the purchaser of shared content leaves, the group loses access to that content.⁶