About Camera Settings on Your Echo Show 8 (2025 release) or Echo Show 11 (2025 release)
Enabling or disabling your camera can affect features on your device.
Your Echo Show 8 (2025 release) and Echo Show 11 (2025 release) camera powers features like Live View, Drop In, and Visual ID. Learn how enabling or disabling the camera impacts your device's functionality and personalization options.
| Live View | Live View allows you and household members to check in on your home while away by viewing your compatible device's live camera feed remotely through the Alexa app. Turning off the camera disables Live View. |
| Drop In | The Drop In feature lets you easily connect with your closest friends and family on supported Echo devices. Outside your household, Drop In works only with contacts approved by you. When Drop In is enabled on the device, you can start an instant video (if camera is enabled) or audio call without the other person having to answer. |
| Visual ID | Visual ID uses the device's camera to recognize you and other enrolled individual household members. Once you or household members are recognized using visual ID, the device offers content personalized to you, and it can also trigger personalized routines, including playing the news, turning on the lights, setting the temperature, and more. |
| Adaptive Content | Adaptive Content adjusts the screen on Echo Show devices based on your proximity to the device using the camera or Presence Detection using ultrasound. |
| Presence Detection Using Camera | Your device uses the camera to detect presence or proximity (without identifying any specific person). The device may also use ultrasound and, in some cases, ultrasound combined with Wi-Fi signals to detect presence or proximity. Once presence is detected, the device can perform routines, such as turning on a light when someone enters a room. Presence detection is also used to power Adaptive Content. |
