Yes. Honorlock's product pages list cell phone detection, and the company says its software flags a phone in the webcam frame, an Apple device nearby, and a voice assistant wake word during an exam.
What Honorlock says it checks
Honorlock calls the feature a phone detection toolkit and says 71% of proctoring violations involve secondary devices.
Handheld Device Detection flags a visible mobile phone, and can flag handheld devices such as calculators unless the exam permits them.
Apple Handoff Detection, which Honorlock calls exclusive, detects Apple devices in the testing vicinity and alerts the live proctor, covering a phone outside the frame.
Smart Speech Detection listens for wake commands such as "Hey Siri" or "OK Google" and alerts a proctor.
A room scan runs first; the knowledge base describes the Room Scan setting as a 360-degree view of the testing area.
Honorlock also records webcam video, screen activity and browser traffic, and its proctors watch for phones in reflections.
What the exam settings let an instructor turn on
The instructor or exam administrator picks the checks. Honorlock's Canvas guide lists settings for webcam, screen and web traffic recording, test taker photo and ID, room scan, calculators, copy/paste, printing, BrowserGuard and allowed site URLs. Some boxes are locked by the institution.
Test Taker Guidelines tell the proctor what is allowed: handheld calculators, hats, headphones, public areas, background noise, restroom breaks and mobile phone use. So an exam can be configured to permit a phone. Wearing headphones when not permitted produces a high flag. Room Scan is optional per exam, according to Penn State's Honorlock guidance.
What Honorlock does not publish
Honorlock does not publish how Apple Handoff Detection identifies a nearby device, its range, or how often the phone checks produce a false positive.
The test taker privacy statement says Honorlock does not scan phones or tablets on the network and cannot track other devices in the household or at the exam location.
Honorlock also publishes no scoring scale: proctors verify suspected phone use and reports point to time-stamped incidents.
What test takers report
A flag appears, then a person looks at it. In an r/ufl thread, a student wrote that Honorlock showed "second device detected" but the proctor let them continue, and replies said the professor could review the recording.
A flag annotates a recording, and the instructor decides what it means. If it happens to you, message the instructor, describe what you were doing, and ask them to check that timestamp. Follow the guidelines the exam displays, including where your phone belongs.
How employers should read an Honorlock flag
Honorlock sells a hiring version with the same detection language, plus flags raised without candidate-facing alerts. Honorlock gathers the evidence, and your team reviews and makes the decisions.
Pull the timestamp, watch the segment, and check which settings were on: whether a phone or headphones were permitted, whether a room scan was required. Then check whether a proctor verified the flag. A flag that survives that review is evidence about one session, not a measure of the candidate's ability.
Proctored assessments form one input in AI Candidate Evaluation, and a phone flag should inform that decision rather than make it.