While this is 'out', it's not a fully-fleshed-out feature.

There are no location or GPS tags, it fails to readily identify the time and date tags on videos, there's no way to create or collaborate on albums and share those albums with friends/family, etc.

I, too, wish to finally be completely rid of Google, but this is not an adequate alternative yet.

The photos backup folder needs to be accessible from Drive on a browser. It needs to be shareable so that others can upload folders to it. I want to be able to share access to that folder with others so they can view and add folders to it, so that we have a shared family folder.

Absolutely critical! Using Proton Drive for photos is absolutely terrible without having to scroll through thousands of photos and mind you the terrible latency of loading thumbnails.

This would be cool, but there are other apps which do effectively the same thing. GrapheneOS comes with their own privacy respecting gallery app and there are a handful on the F-Droid store.

Came here to vote for a Proton Photos app. Though I think removing meta data should be an option. Just looking for an alternative to mainstream options that I could bundle with my existing Proton subscription. I'm currently testing Ente but a Proton Photos app would be lovely.

You have to think this through. If you remove meta data, then you can't organize or search by: date, location, device, etc.

If the Op means syncing with a PC as a backup then yes, its absolutely critical imho.

The current functionality of only backing up to the cloud is not a convenient way of managing foto's as it means manually downloading everything from the cloud using the webbrowser. This wastes user time when i could be automatically synced and relatively speaking costs a lot of effort which is also directly related the number of foto's being made and accessibility to your PC. Syncing photo's is a basic part of daily life where most everybody has a camera in their pocket all the time...

Please acquire Ente

Proton Drive photo backup is great, functionality-wise it's doing the thing it promised. The UX leaves something to be desired. I've come to really like the timeline UI from the Google Photos web UI. Would love to see something like that implemented for Proton Drive as well, allowing me to quickly scroll to a specific day/month/year. Eventually a separate Proton Photos app would be nice, although I'm fine without it for now.

Ok so, automatic photo backup on Android is great, that's a much appreciate step.
Now, next, as a paying user, I'd love to actually have an alternative app to also be able to watch at my photos, in a reasonably decent way (something like Ente maybe?).
I fully agree with suggestions here: https://www.howtogeek.com/things-i-want-from-proton-besides-ai-and-crypto/#a-better-alternative-to-google-photos-and-icloud

the new proton photos feature just not there yet.
there is no album\folder option, you cannot download photos from ProtonDrive to your photos library (on iPhone in my case). no photo information available, like location and other stuff. no search option (Google photos has great search feature to search objects, places etc.)
these thing that currently keep me from subscribing to a paid Proton plan and keep my photos in Ente.

For inspiration or a partnership, look into Ente Photos

Proton, Thank you for giving us the iOS App for picture/phone backups but really could use support for .HEIC and other Apple/Picture/Video formats. Without this support to be viewed on the web browser or in the app this all becomes very UN-usable. I would rather support Proton vs Google or Microsoft! Help us Help you.

I think it should use metadata to organize the photos, but then give an option to remove it when you share a media file

Live Photos are a must! So many memories are contained within live photos, and I don't want to lose them by using this feature

you have a photos/videos tab in the drive app which automatically uploads all photos taken from your phone. removing metadata is not possible yet though

Dear Proton Drive users,

Telling developers "I want this app to look like this other app" is not the way to go.

Dear Proton Drive team,

This is a list of features I think most of us would like to see implemented in Proton Drive which will heavily improve UX:

- Albums. Currently is impossible to organize photos in the Photos section of Proton Drive. This makes the photos feature useless (sorry) as people will still prefer to use Proton Drive folders to being able to organize them.
- Sharing. This is related with albums, since we can't organize them in some kind of structure like folders, we can't share a batch of photos with family and friends, ending up using Proton Drive folders.
- Filters. We need a way to filter our photos, that is, by tagging photos with custom keywords, places, people...

These are like the 3 basic points that will give Proton Drive Photos a serious taste, from there it could be improved with more features on top.

Thanks for reading this,
JF

Having a photos back up in Proton Drive doesn't really serve much of a purpose. We need a Google Photos replacement. I'd migrate literally tomorrow if the Proton team released one. A simple photo dump backup option just isn't good enough. Proton needs to have a full-fledged Google Photos alternative, because that's one of the biggest ways to get people off of Google's services. Right now, if you're not on Apple's photos then you're on Google Photos and that's a ton of users on both platforms that don't have any other trusted options.

Please create a Google Photos alternative. It's massively important, and that importance cannot be understated and underestimated.

Having a photos back up in Proton Drive doesn't really serve much of a purpose. We need a Google Photos replacement. I'd migrate literally tomorrow if the Proton team released one. A simple photo dump backup option just isn't good enough. Proton needs to have a full-fledged Google Photos alternative, because that's one of the biggest ways to get people off of Google's services. Right now, if you're not on Apple's photos then you're on Google Photos and that's a ton of users on both platforms that don't have any other trusted options.

Please create a Google Photos alternative. It's massively important, and that importance cannot be understated and underestimated.

I agree with the rest of the comments, I would like album support, search functionality (by features in a photo, people, dates). I am trying to migrate from Google Photos, so these features are what keep me from using it completely, instead of using it as a camera roll dump as I do now.