Currently the photos in proton drive feel only good for backing up. But if I want to pull up a photo and show it to someone it's unusable. There needs to be a way to filter by date or filter by location. There should be a timeline scroll bar on the side. It would be amazing to be able to create albums. If there were a collaboration with open street maps to pull the location data from the photos and map them that would be another great way to search photos.
I am just fine with waiting for photos to load as long as I know that the ones that are going to be loading are the ones that I want to see. Grouping by location and album would help a lot with this.

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.

Yes, that would be a lovely feature!
I have a lot of trash photos I don’t need backup on my device, but the important ones I keep organized in albums.
It would be great to be able to select albums to backup instead of al photos.

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!!

Look into what Ente Photos has done with on device machine learning.

As an example, ente.io is open-source and offers various features for photo management.

This sounds pretty neat, would love this.

It’s essential to be able to organize photos into shareable folders. Having to share one photo at a time is unsustainable. This is the final step for ditching Google Photos. We need to be able to easily share albums with family even if they don’t have a proton account.

Given how Proton has announced their release of an on-device AI tool, it should be feasible to do a similar thing for photos.

Having a cool little photo map, some basic facial recognition to help me categorise and search easily and I'm completely sold.

I appreciate this is a complex ask, but the support for it is there and if Proton can pull this off I can finally ditch Google, as Google Photos is the only service I still use.

I take a lot of photos and being able to organize them into albums is extremely important to me so I can easily find them/show when needed.

Add albums and other sort methods. Being able to then share out the albums with links that can expire like with drive. Maybe even a dedicated proton photos app

an album\folder and search features are critical for people like me who want to move from google drive. having all the pictures in one single photo section is unbearable.

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 ^^".

good morning,
indeed, i have everything organized in folders by year with subfolders in my HDD and i would like it to keep everything when i put it on protondrive like the cloud site "degoo". without that, it's a waste for me (that's why i don't use google photo). i can't see myself redoing my classification ^^".

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.