We give a simple argument to detect chromatic redshift in the algebraic K-theory of E∞-ring spectra and give two applications: we show for n ≥ 1 that K(En), the algebraic K-theory of any height n Lubin-Tate theory, has nontrivial T (n + 1)-localization, and that K (n) (k), the n-fold iterated algebraic K-theory of a field k of characteristic different from p, has nontrivial T (n)-localization.