and above all, when transferring an album with a sub-folder already created on HDD, that it be kept as such and avoid recreating the album (that would be a big plus compared to google photo). i hope i make myself understood because i'm going through a translator ^^".

I was excited to see that a photos feature had arrived on the iOS app but I haven’t yet experienced it. I am alarmed at the language and permissions used to enable the feature. The app says that in order to enable the feature, I must grant permission to my photos so that they can be backed up and removed from my device. I don’t necessarily want my photos to be deleted from my device and I see no settings in the app to control that. Why can’t the feature work with photos that I’ve already copied to drive from Google Photos?

I don’t believe this feature should be included in the Drive app. Google started down that road before reversing course, and for good reason. Photos requires a completely different interface, and probably a different storage location. I hope photos will be moved to a new app. I may try it then, provided there are settings.

Albums and search would be nice, but for now I would settle with being able to easily scroll through my photos by date (in the web interface or the android app).

With 20,000+ photos going back some 10 years or so, scrolling back more than a few months takes approximately forever.

The interface on google photos is quite nice for that - as I scroll, on the edge of the screen I can use the controls to quickly scroll to a given year/month.

Currently on the proton web app I can kindof drag the scroll bar and try to find given months (though only the month labels show up in the greyed-out/loading images, not the year), but in android I can only try to scroll normally.

I purchased Proton Unlimited and was really excited to start using the Photos backup for mobile. The problem is not all of the photos are correctly dated and if I would like to show a picture to anyone it takes to long for it to load and find the photos. If the scroll bar on the side displayed the date as you scroll that would be very helpful. But the best solution would be if we could create albums to organize special occasions. It would also make it nice if we could say download specific albums and so that they do not need to load in every time we want to view anything. The ability to switch on and off an album to on device and off device would be outstanding.

I purchased Proton Unlimited when I saw that photo backup had arrived. I was a bit underwhelmed with the lack of features, though.

There's a growing bunch of people who really really really want to get rid of Google, and it will help the process immensely if small (but important) stuff like photo albums were a thing in Proton as well!

And ability to display a slideshow with selected images

I'm currently a free user, but if Proton Drive had a proper Google Photos alternative, I would definitely sign up for the 500GB plan, possibly even the family plan.

This would be amazing. It would also put Proton Drive/Photos a step above Sync.com.

Server-side albums is an essential feature that should have been there _before_ enabling sync of phone albums other than the camera roll. Right now, the backup becomes a disorganised mess if I select any of my other albums for backup.

First the file details (tag, location, filename e.t.c.), photo album and photos classified from protondrive android app on the device will have to be encrypted on the device with symmetric encryption method and uploaded to protondrive server, then The search word can be searched by encrypting it with the same symmetric encryption key.
Thus, keeping end to end encryption, the photo file is searched in protondrive like Google Photo.

Please crate an app for IPhone to sync gallery photos with proton disc. similar to google photos app.