diff --git a/src/app/components/DeviceVerification.tsx b/src/app/components/DeviceVerification.tsx
index 02811a856..b80292658 100644
--- a/src/app/components/DeviceVerification.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/DeviceVerification.tsx
@@ -316,9 +316,5 @@ export function ReceiveSelfDeviceVerification() {
 
   if (!request) return null;
 
-  if (!request.isSelfVerification) {
-    return null;
-  }
-
   return <DeviceVerification request={request} onExit={handleExit} />;
 }
diff --git a/src/app/components/RenderMessageContent.tsx b/src/app/components/RenderMessageContent.tsx
index 4cfcb7dc1..abaca9af3 100644
--- a/src/app/components/RenderMessageContent.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/RenderMessageContent.tsx
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   RenderBody,
   ThumbnailContent,
   UnsupportedContent,
+  VerificationRequestContent,
   VideoContent,
 } from './message';
 import { UrlPreviewCard, UrlPreviewHolder } from './url-preview';
@@ -264,5 +265,9 @@ export function RenderMessageContent({
     return <MBadEncrypted />;
   }
 
+  if (msgType === 'm.key.verification.request') {
+    return <VerificationRequestContent />;
+  }
+
   return <UnsupportedContent />;
 }
diff --git a/src/app/components/message/MsgTypeRenderers.tsx b/src/app/components/message/MsgTypeRenderers.tsx
index 8f152c2da..307d03650 100644
--- a/src/app/components/message/MsgTypeRenderers.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/message/MsgTypeRenderers.tsx
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   MessageDeletedContent,
   MessageEditedContent,
   MessageUnsupportedContent,
+  MessageVerificationRequestContent,
 } from './content';
 import {
   IAudioContent,
@@ -57,6 +58,14 @@ export function UnsupportedContent() {
   );
 }
 
+export function VerificationRequestContent() {
+  return (
+    <Text>
+      <MessageVerificationRequestContent />
+    </Text>
+  );
+}
+
 export function BrokenContent() {
   return (
     <Text>
diff --git a/src/app/components/message/content/FallbackContent.tsx b/src/app/components/message/content/FallbackContent.tsx
index 7f3173ab7..0eae9bae0 100644
--- a/src/app/components/message/content/FallbackContent.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/message/content/FallbackContent.tsx
@@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ export const MessageEmptyContent = as<'div', { children?: never }>(({ ...props }
   </Box>
 ));
 
+export const MessageVerificationRequestContent = as<'div', { children?: never }>(
+  ({ ...props }, ref) => (
+    <Box as="span" alignItems="Center" gap="100" style={warningStyle} {...props} ref={ref}>
+      <Icon size="50" src={Icons.Lock} />
+      <i>Device verification request — open another Matrix client to accept</i>
+    </Box>
+  ),
+);
+
 export const MessageEditedContent = as<'span', { children?: never }>(({ ...props }, ref) => (
   <Text as="span" size="T200" priority="300" {...props} ref={ref}>
     {' (edited)'}