An iPhone clip, before and after a trim: the phone's details were gone

We recorded a tram in Melbourne on an iPhone, then trimmed four seconds out with a free video tool, FFmpeg: the kind of re-save any editing app does.

• Straight off the iPhone: when, and on what.
• After a four-second trim: the software that wrote it.

What changed

• The moment recording began. 9:50:17 am on 25 September 2026, with its time zone. Gone from the copy.
• The phone and lens. Apple, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and the exact lens. Gone from the copy.
• What wrote the file. The copy now names the software that wrote it.

What the report said: Origin went from B to C ("moderate risk").

Nothing here proves the clip was faked. Re-encoding isn't faking: messaging apps re-encode almost everything. But it's no longer the file that came off the phone, and that's what the check is for.

Go deeper

• How to check a video yourself: Where did this video come from?
• Try it on your own video