RING has launched a brand new feature that reveals if you’re being tricked by fake doorbell footage.
It’s now extremely easy to create fake Ring camera videos, with AI mocking up dodgy clips in seconds.
Lots of them are meant to be a bit of fun. At Christmas, you could even create festive clips of Santa paying a visit.
But Ring footage can be users for lots of serious purposes, like exposing package thieves, reporting serious crimes, proving your innocence, or making a claim.
Now there’s a way for you to prove that a video hasn’t been edited in any way thanks to a new feature called Ring Verify.
“When someone shares a Ring video with you – whether it’s a neighbour showing you what happened on their porch or a clip explaining an incident – you want confidence the video hasn’t been altered,” Amazon-owned Ring said.
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“Now, every Ring video that’s downloaded or shared comes with built-in verification to give you that peace of mind.”
It works by putting a secret invisible mark on all Ring videos that are downloaded from the app.
This stays intact as long as a video isn’t tampered with in any way.
But as soon as a change is made, the seal is broken and the authenticity marker is lost.
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“Every video downloaded from Ring now includes a digital security seal,” Ring explained.
“Think of it like a tamper-evident seal on a medicine bottle.
“If anyone changes the video in any way, even something small like trimming a few seconds or adjusting the brightness, the seal breaks.”
The feature works on all Ring videos, no matter which Ring device it was recorded with.
And you don’t need to do anything special – the feature is included on every video downloaded from December 2025 onwards.
“Whether you’re receiving footage from a neighbour, reviewing a video for a claim, or checking that a shared video is the real deal, you can now verify it’s authentic Ring footage that hasn’t been tampered with,” Ring noted.
If a video is marked as verified then it hasn’t been changed at all.
But if it’s not verified, there are a few possible causes.
One could be that the video was downloaded (not filmed, but specifically downloaded) before December 2025.
And the other is that it’s been edited in any way, even if it’s just trimming the length of the video or cropping it.
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Additionally, if the video has been uploaded to a website – like social media – and has been compressed, that would also count as a change, and cause the verification to fail.
The only way to pass the verification would be to have the person share the video as downloaded from Ring directly.
Sadly, Ring can’t tell you how the video was edited – or with what tools.
But if you want to check for yourself, you just need to go to https://ring.com/pages/verify and submit the clip.
