Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can “verify that the Ring video you receive has not been edited or altered.” But since Ring won’t verify videos that have been altered stillIt probably won’t be able to verify videos you see on TikTok that look like they’re from security camera footage but are actually created with AI.
All videos downloaded from Ring’s cloud now include a “digital security seal,” Ring says. To check and see if a video is authentic, visit the Ring Verify website and select a video from your device to upload. When Ring Verify says a video is “verified,” it means that “the video has not been altered in any way since it was downloaded from Ring.” (According to spokesperson Kaleigh Bueckert-Orme, Ring Verify is built on C2PA standards.)
Any change to the video, including something small like reducing the brightness, will cause the video to fail the test. Ring cannot verify videos that “were downloaded before this feature launches in December 2025, or videos that have been edited, cropped, filtered, or altered in any way after download (even trimming a second, adjusting the brightness, or cropping)” or “videos uploaded to video sharing sites that compress the videos.” Videos recorded with end-to-end encryption turned on also cannot be verified.
If Ring can’t verify the video as authentic, it also can’t tell you what exactly was changed about it. “Ring’s verification simply confirms that the video has not been modified at all since download,” Ring says. If you want the original version of a video, Ring suggests asking the person who shared it with you to share a link from the Ring app.
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