Front-facing ring camera video footage will be more difficult to fake or manipulate. On Thursday, Amazon-owned device maker Dr introduced Ring Verify, a new video authenticity feature that will allow anyone to determine if a video has been altered in any way.

The company says this can be useful if you see shared videos, such as those sent to you by a neighbor or someone accused of showing some sort of incident.

Although you won’t be able to instantly identify if some TikTok videos are AI-generated – e.g. Rabbit jumping on a trampolineFor example — you’ll be alerted to any changes to a Ring video that someone has shared directly with you.

“Think of it like a tamper-evident 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 is broken,” Ring explains in his explanation. announcement.

The verification feature will be automatically enabled on every video recorded with the Ring device from December 2025, the company notes. Any changes or editing, including cropping and filters, will break that verification seal. Ring says this includes videos uploaded to sharing sites that compress footage.

Failure to verify does not mean the video is fake. It is only a signal that it has been changed. Maybe someone turned up the brightness for visibility, or it could mean the video was recorded before December 2025.

In the event of a failed verification, recipients can request a copy of the unedited video Ring suggests this could be useful for purposes such as insurance claims.

All videos downloaded or shared from Ring’s cloud will have the verification feature present, 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 — they’ll always show up as “not verified.”

To verify the footage, Ring will be able to visit the website Ring.com/verify And submit their video link and get instant results.

TechCrunch noted that the site is not yet up and running, which may suggest the announcement was shared prematurely. We didn’t even see the announcement on the Ring blog homepage at the time of publication but were able to preview the news via the blog post Direct URL. We have sought an explanation from the company.