Really important missing feature!
When opening any document it's imperative that we can just send it to Proton Drive and the easiest way to do that is through the iOS's Share functionality.
Thanks!

Photos is good, but the Album structure is a pain as there's currently no way to import Albums from Google Photos or other providers, and so we need to re-create every album manually. However many of us already have local Albums on our phones via whatever non-Proton app we've been using.

Please allow a Share option when selecting multiple photos locally to upload to Drive in an Album (either new or existing). This would significantly speed up the use of Albums and make it easier for us all to use Drive as our default Photos app by getting Drive's albums to match whatever we've setup previously.

When a user would select multiple photos on their phone, they'd click the Share icon, and instead of just seeing the Drive icon, they'd also see 2 other Proton Drive options: New Album and Existing Album. Then when they select one of those options, Drive would do a check to see if those photos are already backed up in Proton, and if they already are, then they'd be added to an album. That way if a user has say 10 local albums, they could quickly select all the photos in each album, click Share, and then click one of these 2 new icons to then quickly recreate that album in Drive. Currently there is no easy workaround for this, as users need to manually go through their entire photo library to and select each photo manually to add to an album. This is especially painful if the photos library is large and/or spans several years

To encourage the adoption of Proton Drive (vs. American solutions like Dropbox or GDrive), it is imperative that the "Share" functionality can be used from any other application.

I'm testing to see if I can migrate from Dropbox to Proton Drive and purchase the Family plan, but the lack of Share shortcut is really a bummer. I see there's the option of using via Files app, but that prevents us from setting the PIN lock (which works fine with Dropbox).

Yeah having to go through the files app works but is a poor experience. Share sheet shortcut like Dropbox or others is a much better experience.

I agree - On IOS this is possible as described below. But it would be nice to have a shortcut (Share Icon -> Proton Drive) - just like I can use for Proton Mail (Share Icon -> Proton Mail)

I'm just trying to bind myself to Proton. However, to get my wife to bind as well, we will want to be able to auto share our photos. This is kind of like Pauli's exclusion principle.

For iOS users, here are the steps:

1. Tap the Share icon.
2. Select Save to Files (by default, this will take you to iCloud Drive).
3. Tap the left chevron icon at the top.
4. Under Locations, you'll see options like iCloud Drive and On My iPhone. Here, you should also see Proton Drive.
5. Tap Proton Drive.
6. Accept the prompt to enable Proton Drive in the Files app.

That’s it! You’re all set.

I hope this explanation helps everyone!

This would be a game changer for family plan: family take pictures with different phones and being able to have them all shared in the same folder would make transition from family member from Google/iCloud etc to Proton way easier

Hmm… this is already possible. I do it all the time.

Yes, adding a shortcut to the share sheet would be great. The Files app interface is clunky at best. Enabling it also means you can't have a passcode or faceid protecting it for a second level of auth.

I would like to have something like Airdrop or Near by sharing. So, Sharing Menu > Proton Drive > a list of all devices that are logged in my Acc : select one > file, photo.. send to selected device and if the device is online it send with an push notification, if it's offline, it will become the file send, when it's online or with something like a push notification at startup. This would be an amazing feature. Just imagine how this would fast up everything! (°^-^°)

I think I have been doing this as of 4/19/2024. works great love it for iOS other than I cant see my other "My Computers" within the app.

Um for everyone saying you cant do this you already can
You need to add proton drive to the iOS files app
Then from there you would share to files and you select proton drive in there

Not sure if possible but it would be great for this to work both directions (ie upload from the phone but also grant specific apps access to specific files from Drive to use with specific permissions)

It is absolutely necessary to integrate this functionality because without it, the Drive loses its interest... especially when you take out a paid Family subscription...

Being able to add other Proton users to collaborate on photo albums is an extremely important feature that brings value to Proton Photos.

The absence of this feature is hands down the greatest shortcoming of ProtonDrive for me. Since I've started using ProtonDrive more often recently I often find myself in the Photos app of iOS with the desire to transfer a photo to ProtonDrive. However, all I can do is use a workaround. I usually share with ProtonMail, then start up my Linux desktop, save the attachments from the e-mail, then upload them to ProtonDrive. This very clumsy and time-consuming. It drives me nuts. I'm surprised that this feature only has 43 votes, including three from me. Does anyone else have a better workaround while we wait for this to be implemented?

It's great we can finally sync our photos automatically with Proton Drive, but now, we'd like to share them.

I would like to be able to share the whole folder with people from my family account.

Congrats for all your great work !

This is absolutely critical, we need a way to copy files to our proton drive from other apps in our IOS phones
Need to be able to send from proton mail directly to proton pass directly.