Going forward, it will be even more difficult to fake or manipulate Ring camera video footage. On Thursday, the Amazon-owned device maker introduced Ring Verify, a new video authenticity feature that allows anyone to determine if a video has been altered in any way.
The company says this could be useful when it comes across shared videos, such as videos sent by neighbors or videos purporting to show some type of incident.
While you might not be able to immediately tell if some part of your TikTok video was generated by AI (like a rabbit jumping on a trampoline), you'll be alerted if changes are made to a Ring video someone shared directly with you.
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“Think of it like a tamper-proof seal on a medicine bottle. If someone alters the video in any way, even a small change like cropping a few seconds or adjusting brightness, the seal will break,” Ring explained in an announcement.
The company says this verification feature will be automatically enabled for all videos recorded on Ring devices starting in December 2025. Any changes or edits, including cropping or filtering, will break the verification seal. Ring said this includes videos that have been compressed and uploaded to sharing sites.
Failing verification doesn't necessarily mean a video is fake. It's simply a signal that something has changed. It could mean that perhaps someone turned up the brightness for better visibility, or that the video was recorded before December 2025.
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If verification fails, the recipient can request a copy of the unedited video. Ring suggests this could be useful for purposes such as insurance claims.
The verification feature is present on all videos downloaded or shared from Ring's cloud, regardless of the specific device that captured the footage. However, the company notes that content verification is not compatible with videos recorded using end-to-end encryption, which will always show up as “not verified.”
To verify your footage, Ring allows you to visit the website Ring.com/verify, submit your video link, and get instant results.
TechCrunch noticed that the site is not yet up and running. This may suggest that this announcement was shared prematurely. Additionally, while the announcement was not visible on the Ring Blog home page at the time of publication, the news could be previewed via the blog post's direct URL. We asked the company for an explanation.