Own a Ring camera? This new update fixes its biggest annoyance for free

"Every time my husband goes to the backyard deck to fire up the grill, our floodlight camera sends an alert to my phone for motion detection -- as it should. Yet it continues to send me phone notifications every couple of minutes while he's out there waiting for the grill to warm up and then while he's grilling. This is exactly what Ring's Single Event Alerts are designed to prevent."

"Ring Instead of getting bombarded by one notification after another when you're mowing the lawn or playing fetch with your dog, Ring will use AI to recognize these as a single event to alert you only once. Of course, the feature shouldn't prevent you from receiving urgent alerts. Instead, Ring recognizes when multiple motion detection events are all from the same ongoing activity for the purpose of notifications only -- the motion events will still be saved and available to review in your Event History."

Ring introduces Single Event Alerts that use artificial intelligence to consolidate related motion detections into a single notification, reducing repetitive alerts during ongoing activities. The feature groups multiple motion events into one notification while preserving each individual recording in Event History for later review. Urgent alerts remain unaffected. The capability integrates with Ring's AI tools such as Video Descriptions and Smart Video Search to identify similarities across events. The rollout is available in beta for Ring Home Premium subscribers. The change aims to cut down notification fatigue from repeated motion alerts during routine activities.

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