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A Room Safety Check works from a photograph. You stand in the middle of a room, take a picture, and a few moments later you get a list of things worth changing. Most of them are small.

Open My Home. Under the heading Check Your Home, choose Room Safety Check.

This is worth reading once before you start.

The check is done by artificial intelligence looking at your photograph. The app says so on the results screen: AI-generated suggestions, not a medical assessment.

It is not a medical device. It does not replace an in-person visit from an occupational therapist, and it is not meant for medical decisions about falls, balance or mobility. It can miss something, and it can raise something that is not a problem in your particular home. You are the one who knows your house.

If you want a proper clinical assessment, ask your doctor for an occupational therapy referral. The app has a link for finding one under About these results.

The first time you run a check, the app asks a little about you and your home so the suggestions fit your situation rather than a generic house.

You may be offered two ways to do this:

If you take the quick route, you can fill in the rest later. The results screen offers Complete My Full Profile whenever you are ready.

Once the questions are done, tap Start My Room Check.

The app asks which room you would like to check and shows your most likely rooms first: bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, living room and entryway, plus any rooms you mentioned in your profile.

It suggests starting with the bathroom. That is a sensible place to begin, and on the trial it matters a little more than usual, because the trial includes one check. Pick the room you worry about most. For most people that is the bathroom or the bedroom.

For anywhere else, tap Don't see your room? Show all rooms. That opens the full list, which includes the dining room, laundry room, main staircase, secondary stairs, home office, storage areas, basement, attic and garage, and outdoors the front porch, backyard and garden, patio or deck, pool area and workshop or shed.

Rooms you have already checked are marked. On a paid plan you can check any of them again whenever you like.

You need at least one photograph, and you can take up to four of the same room. More angles give the check more to work with, and all four count as the one check.

Two buttons appear:

The advice on screen is simple. Stand near the center of the room, step back as far as you can, and take a wide picture rather than a close-up. Hold still so the photograph is clear.

Do not tidy up first. The app asks you to leave the room as it is, because how you actually live is what makes the suggestions useful. A rug you walk over every day is exactly the sort of thing worth knowing about.

To add another view, turn a little and tap Add Angle. The screen shows you how much of the room you have covered so far. If you want the full advice on taking good photographs, tap See All Photo Tips.

If you want to begin again with different pictures, tap Start Over and confirm. Starting over with different photographs of the same room does not use up another check.

When you are happy, use the button at the bottom to start the check. It names the room you are checking, and the analysis runs on its own from there.

If Take a Picture does nothing, that is a known issue on some browsers (especially Chrome on iPhone or iPad). It is not a Circle video call problem.

Try Use Photos I Have first, check camera permission for your browser, then try Safari once if you are on an iPhone or iPad. Full steps: Camera will not open on Room Safety Check.

The screen tells you where your pictures go: they are analyzed by Google's Gemini AI and saved to your account so you can look at them again.

They are not kept forever. Photographs from a check are removed after 90 days. Your findings, your notes and your to-do list all stay. Only the pictures go.

You will see a note on that check in its last 14 days, naming the day the photographs will be removed, so nothing disappears without warning. If you want to keep them, save a copy first.

The results open with a short summary. If nothing was found, it says so. If a few things were found, it says most of them are easy and suggests picking one to begin with.

The findings are sorted into tabs:

Each finding has a card. Tap See what you can do to open it and read the detail, which includes how to do it yourself, short videos where they exist, things you might need, and how to find a professional if it is a bigger job.

If you keep a medicine list in the app, you may also see a section showing what your medicines' labels say. The screen is explicit about why it is there: it appears because you are looking at home safety, and the app does not connect it to anything the check found. It draws no conclusions.

This is the part that matters.

On any finding, tap I'll fix this to put it on your list. On the More to Consider cards the button says Add to my tasks instead. Either way it lands in the same place.

To see everything you have collected, tap View my tasks.

At the bottom of the results you have a few choices:

If you would like to know how the score was worked out, tap How we score this Room Check. It explains the rules in plain language, and names the published guidance the check is based on.

From My Home, choose Safety Check History to see every check you have run. Open one and you can tap Download Report to make a PDF, choosing whether it is written for family or for a professional, and whether it covers one room or the whole house.

Older checks carry a line reminding you when the check was done, because homes change. If a room has altered since, run it again.

Your trial includes one Room Check, free. It covers the trial and the grace period afterwards, so if you used it during the trial it stays used through those days rather than coming back.

There is no window and no waiting. The check does not free up again after a few days, so there is nothing to time and no next check to wait for. Checking a second room is where a paid plan begins.

On a paid plan there is no limit and no counter. Check as many rooms as you like, as often as you like.

The report from your free check stays readable forever, on every plan, including after a trial ends.