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When I yet again raised this on discord I ended up with a bunch of angry folk defending proton… felt very unwelcome as a paying user for a decade… and still waiting.
Can we be a bit more pragmatic and have encrypted server side indexes already? Not really any different than the emails.
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As of March 2024, this feature is available on the web. Coming soon to other apps.
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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.
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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.
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Strong +1.
This isn’t just a “mobile feature gap.” It’s a broader architectural limitation that impacts every platform.
Currently:
Desktop requires full local mailbox download and indexing for usable search.
New machines can’t search until full sync completes.
Mobile has no equivalent local indexing model.
Large mailboxes (multi-year, multi-GB) make full replication impractical.
This effectively makes search device-dependent and inconsistent. In a multi-device world, requiring every device to locally replicate an entire mailbox doesn’t scale.
I understand end-to-end encryption complicates server-side search. But encrypted search schemes exist with tradeoffs (encrypted inverted indexes, blind indexes, forward-private search, etc.). Even an opt-in encrypted server index or limited metadata index would be materially better than the current model.
Search is foundational. Without reliable cross-device search, Proton feels more like a local archive client than a modern email platform.
For paid users with large archives, this becomes a retention issue — not just a feature request. I'm surprised this has so few votes in comparison to others.