It’s about to get tougher to fake or manipulate Ring camera video footage. Recently, the Amazon-owned company unveiled Ring Verify, a new feature that helps users check if a video has been altered in any way.
This tool could come in handy when you’re sent videos from neighbors or when you see clips claiming to showcase an incident.
While it might be hard to tell if some viral TikTok video was made using AI—like those bunnies bouncing on a trampoline—you’ll be notified of any modifications to a Ring video shared directly with you.
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“Think of it like a tamper-evident seal on a medicine bottle—if anyone alters the video, even a small change like trimming seconds or tweaking the brightness, the seal is broken,” Ring explained in their announcement.
The verification feature will automatically activate for every video recorded with a Ring device starting December 2025. Any edits, including cropping or applying filters, will compromise that verification seal. Ring clarified that this applies to videos uploaded to sharing sites that may compress the footage.
Failing verification doesn’t necessarily mean the video is fake; it just indicates that some alterations were made. Someone might have adjusted the brightness for clarity, or it could mean the video was captured before December 2025.
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If verification fails, users can request a copy of the original video. Ring points out that this may be especially useful for insurance claims.
The verification feature will be available on all videos downloaded or shared from Ring’s cloud, regardless of the device used to record the footage. However, the company noted that content verification won’t work with videos recorded using end-to-end encryption—those will always indicate as “not verified.”
To verify footage, users can visit Ring.com/verify, submit their video link, and receive immediate results.
TechCrunch observed that the site isn’t operational yet, which may imply that the announcement was made too soon. Additionally, the news wasn’t found on the Ring blog’s homepage at the time of publication, although it was accessible through a direct URL link. We’ve reached out to the company for clarification.
