Where Does Ring Store Doorbell Videos?
Where the Ring app keeps videos and snapshots on phones, plus doorbell and chime storage roles. Exact folders are covered below.
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Ring is cloud video with phone viewing. Doorbells detect and upload under plan. The app shows timeline, live view, and neighbor posts from your account. Local files are login, cache, and manual saves.
Manual saves land in Photos or gallery. Devices follow your Ring location. Retention window decides history depth, so expired plans show thin timelines. Exact cache names vary by release. For keeps, download events before expiry. Reinstalls never touch doorbell firmware or cloud video within retention.
Where Ring Doorbell stores this, by platform
/sdcard/DCIM/Ring
Events live in Ring cloud under plan. Manual saves land in the gallery. Devices follow your Ring location. Download before retention expiry for keeps.
Photos/Ring (manual saves, events in cloud)
Videos live in the Ring container plus cloud. Manual saves go to Photos. Sign in to restore locations and timelines within retention.
Frequently asked questions
Where are my Ring doorbell recordings?
In Ring cloud with a plan for event video, on shared doorbell hardware cache briefly, and in the phone gallery for manual saves. Download events to the phone from history, then copy to a PC. Without a plan only live view plus limited trials remain.
Does Ring back up video automatically?
Yes, when the plan covers the camera. The phone holds login and timeline cache. Event videos stream from cloud. Manual snapshots save to the gallery. Reinstalls restore the same timeline after sign in while dates stay in retention.
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