Yes, we need photo albums. 👍

Proton Drive Photos is not a viable alternative to native photo apps. Simply backing up photos without preserving metadata like location or album organization forces users to keep their original app (Apple Photos, Google Photos) for proper management. Please improve this feature to retain essential photo data and structure.

Albums please!!!

Would be nice!

I would love to see a photo management tool from Proton in the near future. Something like Google Photos with Albums or at least tags.

We really need the Albums!! :(

For me the ability to have albums is most important. On my devices I will sort photos by subject matter so I can find them easily. Backing up to Proton Drive throws them into one folder. This is not convenient.

Tagging and location search is not important because of possible privacy issues as stated in the original post, but manual tagging and location would be a nice add.

We NEED a photo albums feature like Google Photos or Enter.io!

The way it's currently setup with Proton Drive is absolutely horrendous!

Basically use A system like Ente.io has

Look into immich/ente, how they do on-device machine learning to tag photos. both are opensource so can take inspiration from how both do it, they are perfect examples.

#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?

Would definitely make the Drive more useful for me, as I mainly use it for photo storage, trying to stay away from the likes of Google.

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.