Discord deletes an account after two years unused, and TikTok publishes no deceased-user policy this site could find. Those two answers sit at opposite ends.
This page groups four services together, because none of them behaves the way the big platforms do. Snapchat and Reddit round out the set. Between them they hold the everyday conversation: the streaks, the group chats, the posts nobody thought of as records. None of the four offers a documented memorial state, and none will hand you the login.
What they publish about death ranges from a documented request form to nothing this site could locate. That range is the point here. You’ll hit both extremes working through a list of accounts, and the second is harder to plan around.
Copy what you want to keep before you ask. Deletion is the outcome on offer at three of these four, so save the photos and files early.
Nothing here describes what you can demand, because that depends on the state and on the estate. It records what each company publishes. Whether a request has any weight behind it is a question for the lawyer handling the estate. The probate court that appointed the executor can say what its own letters cover.
Two of these four services published nothing this site could find on July 28, 2026, and absence is itself a finding. It’s also the least stable kind. A policy that doesn’t exist today may appear next month, so a dated check beats a confident summary.
Snapchat and Reddit leave the account live until somebody reports it, with no timer running in the background. Discord runs a timer.
That distinction decides whether doing nothing is a choice you get to revisit later. On Reddit the posts stay up. Discord schedules an account for deletion once nobody has signed into it for two years. TikTok sits outside both descriptions, because no published rule says which way it goes.
Discord deletes on a family request and grants nothing else
Discord documents its process more fully than the other three on this page, and its help centre lists what you send them. The outcome is deletion.
You ask, supply the documents, and Discord removes the account from its systems entirely. Nothing opens up for you along the way. Discord won’t grant access to the account or disclose what’s inside it, and it won’t make changes either. So a parent hoping to read a child’s messages won’t get them through this route.
Discord lists what it needs from you in its article on deceased users. Three items make up the package Discord wants. The company asks for a death certificate or a coroner’s report, proof of your relationship to the person, and your own identification.
The coroner’s report is an unusual alternative to offer. Most platforms on this site name a death certificate and stop there, but Discord will take either document.
Discord also deletes on its own schedule, without anybody asking, once an account has sat unused for two years. That clock runs quietly in the background. Take a year to work through the estate, and you may find the account already scheduled for removal. Nothing about probate pauses that clock.
One practical warning applies to Discord more than to the other three on this page. Its help article has changed addresses before. A link you saved a year ago may now point nowhere, so search the help centre rather than trusting that old bookmark.
TikTok publishes no deceased-user policy this site could find
TikTok is the gap on this page, and working through it gets you no request form and no published rule. This site found nothing official.
This site searched the directly fetchable Help Center indexes on July 28, 2026 and found no article on deceased users. The privacy policy for United States users says nothing either. That’s an absence finding rather than a claim that no process exists anywhere inside the company. Absence conclusions decay quietly, and the company may well have published something since that date.
What circulates instead is a feature called Remembering, and consumer guides have repeated the name ever since. TikTok never announced it. The label surfaced in March 2024 when a data miner found it in the app’s code, and it spread from there.
Code isn’t a policy. A string sitting in an app build tells you an engineer wrote something, and nothing about what you can request.
An in-app reporting path for deceased users also appears in third-party write-ups of the platform. No TikTok source confirms it. This site couldn’t match those descriptions to anything the company itself publishes, so they stay unverified. That doesn’t make them false, and it does mean nobody should plan a week around them.
TikTok’s terms of service do address one thing plainly, and it lines up with every other platform here. They bar sharing access and transferring an account. So the password route you might reach for is the one the contract closes off, on TikTok as elsewhere.
Read logging in with their password before anybody tries it. The exposure there is legal rather than technical, and it’s the part guides most often get wrong.
For a TikTok account the practical position is uncomfortable but simple to state. There’s no documented request to make. Somebody has to pull the videos out of the app while a phone can still open it. The lawyer handling the estate can advise on whether to press the company through a statutory request instead.
Snapchat’s documented route assumes you have the password
Snapchat offers deletion and nothing else, so it matches Discord on outcomes and lags well behind on process. The difference is in the doorway.
Snapchat’s documented deletion path presumes that whoever asks already holds the account credentials or the linked email address. That’s a strange thing to presume. Every other platform on this site builds its process around documents you can get lawfully after a death. Snapchat’s starts from the thing that terms of service and computer-crime cautions warn against handing around.
Two companies stand out this way in the research behind this site, and Amazon is the other. Both presume or invite credential use. Amazon’s bereavement page goes further: it invites a survivor holding the account email or phone to reset the password.
That invitation settles nothing on its own. A company page describing a step isn’t the same as a rule about who may lawfully take it.
The question of who may sign in is unsettled, and it isn’t one a support page can answer. No research located a prosecuted survivor. The exposure is doctrinal, meaning it comes from how the statutes read rather than from cases anyone brought. The lawyer handling the estate is the person to ask before anybody uses a password found in a drawer.
Snapchat leaves an account live until somebody reports it. So there’s no clock to beat on this one. A missing clock makes the decision unhurried, and it also lets an unreported account sit there for years without anyone acting.
No Reddit policy could be found, and the account stays up
Reddit is the second absence on this page, searched on the same day and with the same result. Nothing about deceased users turned up.
What Reddit does publish is a self-service deletion option and a general request form for other matters. Neither one mentions death. The deletion option lives inside account settings, so it assumes you can already sign in. The general form is a catch-all, and no published rule says how the company handles a bereavement message sent through it.
An account with no report against it stays exactly where it was, with the comment history public. Nothing there expires on its own. So if you decide to leave it alone, you’re making a durable choice rather than a temporary one.
Finding the account is its own problem. A free service leaves no trace on a bank statement, so working through 12 months of charges won’t surface it.
Paid subscriptions do show up in bank records, and a Fairfax County probate checklist tells executors to gather three years of statements. Free accounts leave nothing behind. A charge that recurs once a year still appears at least once in any 12 consecutive months. Postal Service mail forwarding catches renewal notices that statements miss, and it needs in-person proof of executor authority.
Absence findings age badly, and this page rests on two of them from a single day of checking. Check the dates before relying on them. This site sets out its method in how we check this, including why an absence decays.
One step covers all four services. Keep a note of each account, the date you checked it, and the answer the company gave.
That record is what a lawyer or a probate court will ask for if a request needs escalating. It also stops somebody repeating the work. Estates run for months, and the person handling them rarely remembers in November what a support agent said in July. Read the paperwork you need for the documents that nearly every one of these requests starts with.