Would love this. Is it not possible for proton to work together with open source app like immich or photoprism or as mentioned below Ente photos? In its current state photos in proton drive is not useful for me as it is lacking to much functions.

It's great to have a photo backup. But I can't acces them from my computer with Proton Drive. Why is it not integrated in the Proton Drive program for Windows? I want to organize my pictures on the computer rater then on a web page.

Can you create a separate Proton Photos instead of being under Proton Drive? The best idea is to partner with Ente or acquire them. They are doing a great job and a great alternative to Google Photos. I'm all in into Proton, but need to pay Ente as your Photos app is far from enough.

Please do this

Actually, what could really up the game here is a Proton photo app for Photos and Videos that automatically has a duplicate - cleaner service in it. The ability to tag/ like/ photos according to user face recognition/ gps location I am not sure how that could work with the privacy encryption but could be an optional section within the app. Just to make it easier to find/ catalog and tag pictures and remove duplicate pictures all in one. I can't think of anyone having implemented a duplicate/ similar picture- video cleaner in app.

Ok but what about a separate app just for photos? separated from the main Drive? where we can like and group photos like in iphoto?

To have a new ProtonPhotos app would be fantastic. Drive is cool for photos but doens't offer the possibility to like pictures/ categorize them and acess them. An encrypted vault inside of ProtonPhoto would be fantastic too

I agree with many of the comments below.
There should be a separate photos app if possible and the photos should be accessible as a folder within Drive.
Also, please give us the option to create albums, add searching functionalities, ...
Keep up the great work!

It would definitely be the killer application for proton unlimited! On drive it's a good start but something similar to google photos or ente.io would be a game changer

Proton, "Proton Drive photo backup" is not what we want nor need. We need a dedicated app for photos. They can, or not, be compressed (up to the user). The app needs to be able to search photos based on GPS location or keywords of things that are found in the photo (up to the user to enable context recognition or as an extra paid feature).

The Photos app really needs an on-device AI search that makes it easy to find specific photos based on their content, date, tags, albums, or even location metadata. It should also have a feature to find similar photos, like JottaCloud does, so you can quickly pull up that product photo you took months ago in a store or that hilarious memory you want to show a friend. The AI should respect privacy by using pre-trained models that don’t rely on user data. Plus, the app needs to load photos fast and have a simple, clean design that helps you easily find what you’re looking for—even in a huge library. The app should also have the option to delete photos that have already been uploaded from your phone.

Proton, what you said is NOT what we want!

We want either a standalone "Proton Photos" app just like Google Photos OR adapt Proton Drive to have a section that behaves like Google Photos where we have albums and correlate to what's on our computers and phones, where you can search photos by date or tags, and scroll down the photos. We need something like Google Photos or Ente ASAP!

Why not fork or M&A with https://ente.io/ ?

Want men to buy Visionary?

Proton Photos needs major upgrade to look more like Google Photos or Ente Photos.

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.

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...

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.