Can you pass on your Ring devices when you die?
Ring devices can pass to a family member after a death. While alive, the account holder can use transferring the account and authorized users.
Protecting Ring devices while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, lifetime transfer options for devices, and 6-step plan.
How to protect your Ring devices while you are alive →Someone died. Handling Ring devices after a death
Devices can be transferred to family members, 6-step process, and 6 required documents.
What happens to Ring devices when someone dies →Ring makes internet-connected video doorbells, security cameras, the Ring Alarm system and Smart Lighting, managed in the Ring app under a Ring account with its own email and password. Linking it to an Amazon account is optional.
Ring's terms allow Ring devices to transfer to a family member after the account holder dies. While the account holder is alive, Ring allows transferring the account and authorized users.
What happens to Ring at death
- Transferable to family
Ring devices can move to a family member through the Ring app. Ring's Request Ownership flow is for taking over a device from someone else, "including someone who is deceased or medically incapacitated".1
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
There is no way to name a successor on a Ring account; full ownership of a device moves only through the Transfer Ownership or Request Ownership flow.1
Other companies and product lines involved1
- Amazon Bereavement support
A linked Amazon account; Ring device ownership does not go through it2
Ring publishes its own process for a deceased person's account: Request ownership of a device if you can't contact the previous owner (in "Transfer ownership of a Ring device"); a written request goes by mail to Ring LLC, 12515 Cerise Ave, Hawthorne, CA 90250, Attn: Customer Service. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Ring account.
Sources
Data sourced from Ring LLC (Amazon.com, Inc.) primary sources (11 pages reviewed). How we research.
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