I know that for a lot of us, integrating photos with drive would probably be the best/preferred solution. Since I know that that is currently not the case/possible I still think that there are some functionalities that are missing from photos that would make it 100% better to work with.

Here are some of my thoughts, I am open to any input:

1. Filtering. At least to be able to filter all photos that are "unassigned", i.e. not in an album. Maybe filtering by type (video vs image), search query or similar could be interesting too.

2. Moving photos between albums. I was recently trying to recategorize some of my photos. I just wanted to move them to a different album, but there is no option for that. I am not sure whether photos are mapped 1-N or N-M on albums, but I feels like some management options for that (adding to, removing from) would be great.

3. Automatic upload to a specific album. It would be awesome to have a setting that says "sync all photos from this folder on my phone to this album". That would make categorizing easier and create new possibilities.

4. Add labels. If albums are a 1-1 for photos, then labels could be used for N-M associations. I often times catch myself categorizing my photos based on where I was, but would love to add labels like "time with friends", "food" or "outdoors" to the photos within that album. Obviously this would only be helpful with a corresponding filter mechanism.

5. And of course: integrating photos to drive. That would be sooo awesome :)

Note: I really like the vision of Proton and I am willing to "give up" on a few of the features that other providers have in the name of privacy and security. I know that these features are much harder to implement in a security first application, but I still think some of these would go a long way to making this product become better long term.

I am currently using drive myself and I think it would be a shame if I had to stop using it because I cant do things like putting images in a different album. That's why I am very invested in giving as much feedback as possible. Hope it helps, cheers :)