useful function
implemented hopefully soon

After one and half a year still no comment from the developers nor an ETA?!?
I am a little disappointed

It's kind of critical to have this in my opinion.

A first version to have it just appear in your Proton Drive as a seperate "Photos" next to "My files" for example, would already be an improvement, there needs to be some way to access your Photos in the Desktop app.

CRITICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was really excited to switch to Proton Mail and Proton Drive. But the lack of image sync between phone and desktop ended up being a deal breaker. I’ve used this feature with other services for over a decade.

The separation into “My Files,” “Photos,” and “Backup” is both complicated and rigid — it should be the opposite: simple and flexible. These are all just files with different sync settings. Creating artificial divisions only makes something basic unnecessarily frustrating.

If there is an ETA before july I will cancel my dropbox subscription and switch to proton drive. Otherwise I will wait another year for a paid subscription for proton drive due to a renewed dropbox year license.

This is critical, there has been so much demand for it, at least please provide us with an ETA!

I enthusiastically bought the family with the hope of ditching google photos but the lack of this feature makes me regret my move, I would probably cancel my subscription should it not be implemented by the time the next renewal comes around.

I was really disappointed when I found, that I cannot see my photos on my desktop...

Why isn't it possible to add photos via the Desktop App or folder sync?
Why are phots treated differently from other files?

why isnt that a feature

While I don't care to have this feature as a means of syncing photos that are from my PC, I would like to use it as a means of having my photos from my phone not only back up to the cloud but then download and sync as an extra backup to my PC without needing to manually manage things separately.

Would be cool to actually see my files, scrolling thousands of photographs in the web interface is untenable.

Seriously that this is not implemented yet?

I did not realize myself that this crucial feature is lacking from Proton Drive. I am however optimistic that it will be fixed in the near future given the amount of votes it gets.

This is a very crucial feature that is keeping major user adoption to your service. This is a major annoyance for me, but I am not recommending this service to any friends or family that I know need feature.

i need the capability to have one root folder for all my files. no reason to separate photos and computers. the reason is that some of my pics are on the computer and some others on Photos tab with no way to merge the two.

Seems crazy that photos have to be manually downloaded as a zip before we can do anything else with them. I'm sure most people have alternate backup tools for their photos, and this extra step makes managing photos much slower.

100%. Overall it seems a little weird to use and not very streamlined.

There should be 1 main Drive folder that contains all files. Web, desktop, mobile app, file explorer, should all be options to see and open these files, and they should be synced from these places.

As many others have said, photos and videos are files and should be managed like files. This is an essential and basic feature of any file syncing service.

Yes this really needs to be added. I don't want to have to log into the web app to be able to access my phone photos. This is a basic feature of Onedrive, iPhotos, etc...being able to access your photos from your desktop.