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.

Please add album support. A separate app would also be appreciated.

Yes the lack of a search function on both proton drive and the photos part of that is absolutely critical. It's just as critical to make sure that there's a way to organize these photos into albums or folders of some sort and also being able to keyword tag the photos for a search function which of course doesn't exist right now.

We need to have a separate app just for photos just like Google photos with albums, search features, perhaps some smart AI integration, and automatic backup over cellular and wifi connections and with a reliable fast connection that can do multiple or large amount of uploads at once quickly.

This is just a backup, no features no gallery or albums just a photo dump

Please create a robust equivalent of Google Photos with a nice gallery support. Not some add-on to ProtonDrive.

Looking forward to hearing and seeing more about this in the coming months.

Can‘t wait to test it out

Hi everyone,

Proton Drive Photos backup for Android and iOS is already out.
Please see announcements for:

iOS: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-photo-backup-ios
Android: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-photo-backup-android

We'll continue working on developing more functionalities to help you protect your most precious memories.

Thanks for your continuous support!

for the love of all that is holy in this world please do this. I would love to support a company that is more focused on privacy. Google photos has a hold on me and if i could get photos mail and drive from you all i would switch. Obviously has to be cost effective, but i need this in my life

Proton Photos app separately is needed. +1
Cross-platform: Android and iOS
With the ability to have shared albums with non-Proton users (e.g. grandparents) who can view and post photos.

I continually pay more and more to Apple to host an ever growing photo album which is not cross platform, has limited photo organization features, and a lacks a convenient way to archive old photos. I have not found good competition because I don't quite trust many of them with my data.

Add the feature to sync delete pictures, i dont want to have a backup only version... i make so many screenshots and stuff, it will just get filled with junk.

This would be a very nice to have. But we should be capable of buying more storage regardless what tier you are on now..