![]() ![]() ![]() Tap the mode you wish to change ( Disarmed, Home, or Away). Use the default settings, and then change the ones you want to using this process. This will give you the option to use default settings or customize them. Note: if you haven’t enabled the modes feature yet you’ll see Enable Modes instead. Tap the 3 lines in the top left corner to access the menu. Steps to Change Ring Camera Mode Settings With both of these settings off, the camera will not be able to stream anything in any way. If we don’t want any recording at all then we need to turn this setting off as well, which will also prevent anyone viewing the camera. Unlike other smart cameras, Ring cameras will record the live view session automatically for future reference. Live View - With motion detection off we can still access the live view via the Ring app or Alexa app connected smart screens. No recording, no notifications, no snapshots. By turning this off we can not only prevent motion recording, but it also now disables the camera from taking periodic snapshots for the Timeline view, so it’s effectively off. Motion Detection - This determines if a Ring camera will be triggered by motion and record an event. This is especially useful for privacy sensitive devices like the Ring Indoor Cam. We can set two options on each camera device for each of these modes, so that gives us some control over when particular settings are in effect as well. There are three of these modes: Disarmed, Home, and Away. Thanks to the upgraded Modes feature in the Ring app, we can now completely prevent a camera from recording anything in each of the modes provided. ![]() How to turn off camera recording with Modes To completely disable any chance of recording you’ll need to use the Modes method below. Users of the Ring app will still be able to access the Live View which will be recorded automatically to the camera’s timeline. Note that this setting will only disable motion recording. Tap Stop Recording on the confirmation screen. Tap the Disable Motion Detection button on the pop-up warning to confirm. Tap the Motion Detection toggle on the right. ![]() Tap the Ring camera to disable from the list. Tap the 3 lines in the top left corner to open the menu. To just quickly prevent a single Ring camera from capturing motion events, use the camera device settings right from the dashboard. How to temporarily turn off a specific Ring camera Access to Modes is now limited to those with a Ring Protect subscription. If you want to block that as well, you’ll need to use the Modes method. Live view sessions will still be recorded automatically. The first option is a good temporary measure but doesn’t prevent the use of Live View by anyone with shared access. Use the Modes feature to determine when motion detection and live view are available. Turn off Motion Detection for a specific camera as a temporary measure. There are two ways to turn off a Ring camera using the Ring app short of deactivating it completely and permanently removing it from your Ring account: These methods apply to dedicated security cameras like the Ring Spotlight Cam, as well as the complete range of Ring doorbells. Thanks to ongoing pressure from privacy advocates and the general tech press, Ring has been compelled to up their software game and give more control back to us, the customers. Sure, you could turn of motion alerts about those events, but they would be recorded anyway. Originally, Ring did not provide any way to stop their cameras from recording everything they saw. That fact gives plenty of legitimate cause for privacy concerns and is perhaps one reason that you’d want to be able to prevent a Ring device doing so under certain circumstances. Smart doorbell maker Ring is one of the most prominent cloud-based security camera brands, which means Ring devices record everything to Ring’s servers instead of on your local network. Even with local recording there are times when we might not want our cameras recording things. Smart security cameras have many benefits, but many of them use cloud-based recording which comes with some warranted privacy concerns. ![]()
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