Same here, it will save a lot of time! An option like that is very appreciated

I understand why some want two-way synchronization. But please, if so make it optional!

On iPhone, photos can’t upload in the background—you have to open the Proton Drive app. And I actually prefer it that way! I take lots of photos, and quite a few of them are just temporary or duplicates that I don’t want to save long time or upload. I prefer to clean my camera roll first, and then once satisfied, open the app and upload the ones that are left. Also since removing photos on my iPhone doesn't remove them in Proton Drive it means I can always clean my iPhone's camera roll at any time to save space, it's always in Proton Drive anyway. For me, Proton Drive photo upload works perfectly just as it is!

My wife has an Android, and there photos are uploaded in the background but she wanted the same functionality as on iPhone. Fortunately, you can make this work by disabling the Android app’s ability to use data traffic in the background. It would actually be great to have as a real Proton Drive app setting on Android rather than this "fix".

So, to summarize:
1. If you make two way sync, please make it optional!

2. In fact, if you make it so Proton Drive mobile apps deletes cloud photos when local photos are deleted, please also make that optional!

3. And on Android, it would be nice if you could make an official app setting to just upload on-demand (e.g. not in the background), like on iPhone.

Agree, as an extra option. I do like that photos is backed up and i can essentially delete it all on my phone

If this is implemented, it should in my opinion be an extra option, rather than the new default. I use the Drive to save space locally on my device, so I want to be able to delete things without them being deleted in the Proton Drive.

The native proton drive client to Linus is voted on in another post.

This feature would need to be optional. I hope in the future Proton Drive does the equivalent to Google Drive, or Google Drive and Google Files. If it does both, the galleries syncs between the phone/Pc and cloud.

I might be missing something, but smarter people than me will likely understand what I mean.

Yes, but I want it more for sync between laptop to Proton Drive Photos (bidirectional sync).

I second this "It's not feasable to remove pictures in both iOS Gallery and Proton Drive. You just end up using only Gallery and Proton Drive becomes a mess of all kinds of waste images." Managing 2 galleries is too complicated and your backup gets messy.

As many others have stated, please make this optional so it can still be used as a Backup by those who want it a true backup. Would be nice if you could specify by folder or device sort of thing whether you want it Archived, Backup or Synced

Also, please make it possible to sync photos between phone and computer.

It's not feasable to remove pictures in both iOS Gallery and Proton Drive. You just end up using only Gallery and Proton Drive becomes a mess of all kinds of waste images.

The optimal best solution would be if photos also got synced to my computer and if I delete en image anywhere, it's deleted in the Gallery app as well. If it is not possible to get this power over the Gallery app on iOS, the next best option is to do it like Synology DS photo where you get a prompt on the phone when opening the app that asks if I want to delete the removed images in iOS Gallery as well.

Removed images can go to trash for a chosen number of days for extra safety.

Its about the difference between backup and synchronisation, I would appreciate both options to be present and user configurable. Additionally, a solution should be found for backup of pictures that are edited on the iPhone/iPad (or other devices) to backup up only the final version and not as two (or more) versions. It is not as straightforward as it seems because it needs to e.g. consider cases like images adapted ‘immediately’ after they were shot, or some time later (hours/days/weeks/…) etc.

This is a must have for migrating from Google Photos for me.

The only reason I can't switch from google photos to proton drive. I don't want to have to delete photos on my phone twice (locally and on cloud) every time

Yes make it an option please!

Oh god no, people will start losing photos.
If such option is considered, it must be disabled by default and clearly stated what it does.

I strongly disagree with this. I primarily use Photo Backup to store photos in Proton Drive and then to delete them from my phone to save storage space.

If this gets implemented, I'd really hope it becomes optional as otherwise, for me at least, there is not much point in using this feature.

I go with ja nein and others. Should be an option, since its primarily a backup! I also resonate with Simon: sometimes I delete my local files but want to keep my backup.

I would not want photos to be deleted from Proton Drive if deleted on my phone storage, but I would like them to be deleted from my phone if I delete them from Proton Drive.

Right now managing photos is clumsy and I would like to have an application that could completely replace my iPhone gallery. The app from Jottacloud is better in this part but still not perfect.

Critical features IMO:
- If I delete a photo from Proton it should be deleted from my iPhone
- Decent organisation features (albumbs, galleries, labels, etc)
- Geo map

I would hate if this became a feature... I currently sync my photos to proton drive and then often delete them off my local device to keep the storage free.