Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes

Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can “verify that the Ring videos you receive have not been edited or modified.” But since Ring doesn’t check videos that have been edited anywayit probably won’t be able to verify videos you see on TikTok that appear to come from security camera footage but are actually made with AI.

All videos uploaded from Ring’s cloud now include a “digital security seal,” Ring says. To check and see if a video is authentic, go to the Ring Verify website and select a video on your device to download. When Ring Verify indicates that a video is “verified,” it means that “the video has not been modified in any way since it was downloaded from Ring.” (Ring Verify is built on C2PA standards, according to spokesperson Kaleigh Bueckert-Orme.)

Any change to the video, including something small like a brightness adjustment, will cause the video to fail the test. Ring cannot verify videos that “were uploaded before this feature launched in December 2025, or videos that were edited, cropped, filtered, or otherwise modified after upload (even cutting a second, adjusting brightness, or cropping)” or “videos uploaded to video sharing sites that compress video.” Videos recorded with end-to-end encryption enabled also cannot be verified.

While Ring can’t verify the authenticity of the video, it also can’t tell you exactly what was edited. “Ring’s verification only confirms that a video has not been modified at all since uploading,” Ring explains. If you want an original version of a video, Ring suggests asking the person who shared it with you to share a link from the Ring app.