It will become more difficult to fake or manipulate video recordings of the Ring camera moving forward. On Thursday, the Amazon-owned device maker introduced Ring Verification, a new video authenticity feature that lets anyone determine if a video has been altered in any way.
The company says this can be useful if you find a shared video, such as one sent to a neighbor or one that shows an incident.
Although you can’t immediately recognize that some TikTok videos are AI-generated – like bunny jumping on a trampolinefor example – you’ll be alerted to changes in Ring videos that have been shared with you directly.
“Think of it like a tamper-proof seal on a medicine bottle—if someone changes the video in any way, even something as small as trimming a few seconds or adjusting the brightness, the seal breaks,” Ring explained in a announcement.
The verification feature will be automatically enabled on every video recorded with Ring devices from December 2025, the company noted. Any changes or edits, including cropping and filtering, will remove the verification seal. Ring says this includes videos uploaded to sharing sites that compress recordings.
Failure to verify does not mean the video is fake. It’s just a modified signal. It could be that someone increased the brightness for visibility, or it could mean that the video was recorded before December 2025.
If verification fails, the recipient can request an unedited copy of the video. Ring suggests this could be useful for purposes like insurance claims.
The verification feature will be present on all videos downloaded or shared from the Ring cloud, regardless of the specific device that captured the footage. But the company notes that content verification won’t be compatible with videos recorded using end-to-end encryption — which will show up as “unverified,” it said.
To verify the record, Ring will be able to visit the website Ring.com/verify and send video link and get quick results.
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