#1 Would buy Visionary right now if Proton could remotely replace Google Photos.

Ente Photos is doing it more than right.

We need this so much.

This whole uservoice is just useless, if proton doesn't listen to their userbase.
Instead they're redirecting resources to their wallet project, no one asked for:

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/960668-proton-wallet/suggestions/48950099-don-t-just-get-back-to-actual-useful-stuff

This should be the #1 feature for drive. Who values google docs over photos?

Surprised this wasn't a feature.

I think "on-device machine learning" processing can be done to replicate the Google Photo labeling...
Proton Drive must not use its ressource to do this but delegate this task on user devices...
Would be nice to have facial recognition, local georeferencing, automatic labelisation

Google Drive = Proton Drive. Google Photos = ??? This is the gaping hole in the Proton Suite. What are other users doing for now? This is keeping my other family members from fully going all-in on the Proton Suite as well, or else we would already be signed up for the Duo plan. I did a whole export of our Google Photos and videos with Google Checkout. But there seems to be no point in uploading everything for now. Stuck one foot still in the Google world until there is hopefully a Proton photo management tool in the very, very near future please. There's the pb&j but someone forgot the bread.....

edited 9/18/24 - I am now going at this in a different way. For now I am thinking more the photo viewer route, rather than a full photo manager. I have exported 119 zip files with Google's own Takeout, unzipped all into one folder, and ran the fantastic Google Takeout Helper script to clean up the whole unzipped mess. I installed the Proton Drive client, and uploaded a couple of photos. I am trying a couple of private photo viewers and have it open the photos via the Proton Drive folder that is now on my computer. The Takeout Helper put everything into folders by year and sub-folders by month, which I would like to preserve. And then it created folders for the few albums I have made. The album folders are duplicates, but I am guessing I have less than 1,000 dupe photos in album folders. Proton Drive provides plenty of storage for my needs, so a few dupes is no biggie.I will now upload all my ~240 GBs of photos/videos. I would think a full photo manger with more functionality will work also.

But I have to say, I am left to wonder why none of the Proton support staff thought of directing me down this sort of path. Different means to the ends.

With Proton developing Proton Scribe and other AI assistants, I feel an optional, private by default photo tagging (face recognition etc) is a good use of AI to simplify our daily task.

The iPad experience is lagging the ability to swipe and delete photos easily. The android version does a better job, although I find myself failing to complete some swipe events.

Being able to TAG photos would be very useful for categorising photos into events, people, projects, location etc.

This would give similar functionality to folders using e.g. select all photos tagged <Holiday2024> or <FredBloggs> or <HouseExtensionProject> or <myHomeTown>

It's currently impossible to share multiple photos at once in the web interface (and potentially on mobile as well). Having a feature to create arbitrary albums with dedicated sharing settings would be a huge, huge improvement (that's a very basic feature in all photo management systems). Please implement this as a top priority!

The lack of albums and ability to add photos to an album together is what prevents our family from migrating to Proton completely! Please, please, please!!! CONSIDER adding those features!

Slowly moving off of O365 in pieces as Proton delivers. Easy Photo Album creation and management capability is a key piece.

Anecdotally, this is the feature I hear people want the most when I try to recommend this service, passing proton up for Google services or Apple services instead. The inability to easily manage photos, ESPECIALLY on mobile, is IMO critical for better adoption.

I created an account here specifically to say this, and if anyone else is reading this please also consider doing the same to vote and comment.

Don't want a replica of Google Photos. Right now, the creation of sub folders within photos and moving photos to different areas would be a major improvement.

I like that "all in one" upload to one pile, but I would like to make a photo album after some vacations and then manually move some pictures there, which is now not possible?

Sounds nice, but there are so many other things that are more important for Proton to deal with than this right now.

Photo Albums, tagging, location search...

Sounds nice but defeats the purpose of ProtonDrive and that is to get away from all those google features. Drive Photos is fine as its. Its a place to store stuff without being catalogued by a machine, that machine then stores record of every photo. Thats what google and microsoft have been doing, looking at our pics.

PLEASE DONT RUIN ProtonDrive with this

I use Google Photos daily but without photo albums, tagging, location, search, potential advanced features such as classifications, it cannot be replaced by Proton Drive.

Absolutely needed!!