Which Ring devices are getting end-to-end encryption?
All of Ring’s currently sold devices will get end-to-end encryption. That includes the Ring Video Doorbell 3 and 4, as well as the Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 among many others. There is one exception here, which is the $59 Ring Video Doorbell Wired. There are a couple of caveats with end-to-end encryption here though. With it turned on, users will lose the ability to preview videos on the Ring app’s event timeline view and in rich notifications. Shared users also won’t be able to see videos on their devices, and no user can share videos from the Ring app, nor view footage on Echo Show devices. This will also disable Alexa Greetings and Quick Replies. Birds Eye View also won’t work. But disabling end-to-end encryption does re-enable all of these features. Finally, Ring also introduced a new feature this week that makes it easier to move onto new Ring products. It’s called Deactivated Device Slate, which lets a user choose to save any video to their account without having to download them manually. So when you go to remove a camera or doorbell from your account, there is a new Remove Device option that appears, which lets the user keep or delete events/videos from the device.
