Roadmap.

• Find and name the people in your photos, recognised on your device
• Use the whole app without a Proton account
• Search your photos just by describing them, matched on your device
• See your photos on a map and a globe, and browse them by place
• Import your Google Photos or Ente library into Proton Drive
• A much bigger photo editor, plus a collage maker and a way to hide faces
• A video editor to trim and combine clips, add music, or make a GIF
• Edit a photo's date, place and description
• Read and copy the text in a photo
• A more accurate duplicate finder that works with or without a backup
• Ultra HDR photos shown in HDR
• Open trashed photos to view, restore or delete them
• Remove location and metadata when you share a photo to another app
• Set the app as your phone's default gallery
• Choose from eleven colour palettes
• Choose the upload quality for photos and videos separately
• Search your settings
• Plus smoother viewing, more reliable video playback, faster free-up, album sorting, and many stability improvements

• Free up space automatically on a schedule, and on launch too; downloads and restored photos are always kept
• Freeing up space now uses the system trash, so a freed photo stays recoverable
• Optionally compress photos and videos before upload, at a quality you choose, with your on-device copy left full quality
• An edge-to-edge, seamless grid option that drops the tile rounding and side padding, still split by day
• Hide anything, including whole cloud albums, and lock it behind the Hidden screen, for device, synced and cloud photos alike
• Scrub a video frame by frame with a filmstrip, and smoother high-resolution previews
• See which albums already hold a photo you picked, and filter the picker to photos not in any album yet
• A screenshot quick-actions overlay you can enable in Settings
• Undo anywhere you delete or hide a photo
• Metadata removal now covers HEIC and other formats, and downloads keep their date and location on more phones
• An adaptive launcher icon, and a swipeable What's-new screen
• Steadier reinstall pairing, and steadier very large libraries

• Find duplicate photos, exact and visually similar, with a review step before removing
• Keep cloud photos available offline, with a badge, a Search entry and a storage readout
• An activity view from the Sync card for uploads, downloads and offline saves, with a history
• Motion photos play again, including HDR motion photos
• A modern album layout with a parallax cover, and the cover updates right away after you change it
• Reorganised settings with a permissions overview, metadata under Sync, and per-folder back up and album mirror checkboxes
• Unhiding a photo returns it to its original album or folder, with its original date
• Add a photo to an album straight from the photo view, with every album listed and a create-new option
• Much faster photo and video uploads
• Select all in multi-select, and one shared selection bar across the timeline, albums and folders
• Day-level date headers in albums and folders
• The screen stays awake while you watch a video
• Downloads from the timeline go to the default folder, and album downloads go to a folder named after the album
• A pure black (AMOLED) theme option for dark mode
• A support link on the About page

• Improved photo history indexing on large libraries
• Improved stability on very large libraries
• More resilient cloud sync
• Fewer duplicate uploads
• Faster downloads for large albums
• Add photos to an album from inside the album
• Pinch to zoom on videos
• Reverse timeline order, mosaic grid, and swipe between tabs
• A date label while scrolling, and undo for hide or trash
• Choose which tab opens when the app starts
• An in-app FAQ, and a copy-able diagnostics log in settings
• Clearer cloud-status wording and focused timeline settings
• Four more languages: Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Czech
• Smoother photo selection and swiping, with reliability fixes across albums, folders, and videos

• Large library indexing improvements
• A small UI fix

• Back up only on Wi-Fi now holds on every backup path, and it counts any Wi-Fi connection including a metered hotspot, so backups no longer stall on a Wi-Fi marked as metered
• After a reinstall, photos already in your Proton cloud are recognised before the backup queue runs, so they show as backed up instead of being uploaded again
• The Sync screen now shows when a backup is waiting for Wi-Fi or preparing the first sync

• A photo map you can open from Search: your located photos, both on-device and on Drive, plotted as thumbnail pins on dark map tiles, with offline place names
• Tap a place on the map to open it, search for a city, and save a spot straight to a new album
• Mirror to local (opt-in): the metadata you strip on upload is also applied to your on-device copy, so your local copy reflects the same changes
• RAW photos like DNG now get a thumbnail and a full preview, in the app and on the web
• A reworked details sheet, the same for photos, videos and Drive files, with the place name in the overview and resolution and length for videos
• A reworked calendar: one continuous view that snaps month by month, a search that jumps you to a month, year or description, and a day view that opens as a full-bleed album grid
• Type badges on your on-device photos in the timeline, so live, motion, video, RAW and panorama shots are easy to spot
• Drag to select many at once now works in shared albums and the hidden vault too
• Backups run quietly in the background, the always-on backup notification is off by default
• Videos rejoin Synced more reliably after a reinstall
• Vertical videos play the right way up on the web, and clips that can't be played are clearly flagged
• The cloud-album filter can exclude everything and then add folders back one by one, and the device-folder list stays visible even when every folder is hidden
• The gallery header and navigation stay reachable when the library is empty, and the photo grid no longer jumps when you enter selection mode
• Clearer save and sync progress, the in-app update check runs on its own, and a background-restart backup crash is fixed

• Drag to select many photos at once now works inside albums and device folders too, not just the main timeline
• The timeline's quick-scroll handle is grab-only now, so scrolling near the right edge no longer jumps you to another spot
• Albums load correctly on organisation accounts

• Drag across the timeline to select many photos at once
• A grid layout setting: choose how many photos per row, or have the timeline remember your last zoom
• Large libraries keep loading their older photos on their own instead of stopping partway
• Smoother first open in the photo viewer

• Turning off backup for a specific folder now stops it right away
• A photo you backed up shows in your timeline even when its folder is hidden, without bringing the rest of that folder back
• A quick confirmation before backing up selected photos, so nothing uploads by accident
• Album and device-folder photos now match the timeline's size and spacing

• Device photos are matched to their Drive copy by content, not just filename, so a backup made under a different name still pairs up
• Renaming a photo on your device now works for files created by other apps, like your camera

• A new Collection on the Albums page gathers your photos into memories, "On this day" a year, two, five and ten years back, plus seasonal sets like "Summer 2023"
• Share a single photo or video by public link, copy the link, set a password, and revoke it whenever you want
• Search by name, file type, sync state and date, with accent-insensitive matching
• An app-wide visual refresh: one clean typeface throughout, and tidier, more consistent buttons and screens
• Improved performance on large libraries
• A thumbnail strip in the viewer to scroll through and jump between photos

• Sign-in no longer loops back to the password screen. The human-verification step now loads properly, so verification and 2FA go through
• Your phone's folders (Camera, Screenshots, and the rest) now show up, each on its own page. Back up a whole folder or hand-pick photos, and choose which folders appear on your timeline
• Share photos and videos to any other app, from the gallery, an album or a folder
• Shared albums open instantly from your cache, and large ones load much faster
• Thumbnails load in the background, so scrolling stays smooth
• Uploads keep running in the background after you leave the screen

• First sign-in on a large cloud library loads reliably without crashing, even with thousands of photos
• Photos start loading during sign-in, so the first screen is populated sooner
• Thumbnails fill in continuously as they decrypt, instead of all appearing at once after a pause
• Clearing the cache rebuilds thumbnails immediately instead of waiting for a full reload

• Album sharing, end to end: invite people by email straight from an album, pick viewer or editor (changeable later, even on pending invites), see who has access, remove members or stop sharing anytime, recipients see every photo on Android and Drive web alike
• Shared with you: albums others share appear in the Shared tab, open them, browse full-quality photos and videos, save a whole album into your own library, or leave it
• Every album is a cloud album now: creating one from the gallery, the viewer or the Albums tab always creates it on Proton Drive, picks a cover automatically, and is ready to share immediately
• Trash, in the app: deleted cloud photos show up with thumbnails, restore them or delete forever without opening the web
• Folder mirroring: choose device folders that keep a matching Drive album in sync while backing up
• In-app updates: the app spots new releases and installs them with one tap
• Open with Photos: images and videos opened from other apps land in the viewer, editing one tap away
• Offline albums: albums you've opened stay browsable without a connection, with clearer messages when the network drops
• Faster everywhere: app start is precompiled, and thumbnails load ahead of your scrolling and keep up while you fling
• Editor polish: cropping applies live as you drag, no extra confirm step, and the crop frame follows rotations and flips
• Stronger privacy: location is stripped from videos too when metadata stripping is on, timestamps can be kept out of the cloud, and the hidden vault re-asks for your screen lock when you return
• Smarter search: instant accent-insensitive filtering, jump to any month, redesigned calendar chips
• Viewer refinements: double-tap to zoom, swipe past a zoomed photo's edge to turn the page, controls stay hidden while you browse, and the light theme gets a light viewer
• Multi-select upgrades: select a whole day with one tap; mixed selections read "12 photos, 2 videos"
• TalkBack descriptions across the main screens; backup waits when the battery is low; photos keep one consistent order everywhere and the light theme is readable end to end

• Renamed from "Proton" Photos to Photos for Proton across the app and the website (the new structure makes the third-party relationship clearer)
• First-launch wizard (about + attribution, backup mode, folder picker, metadata privacy, app lock, appearance + language, photo access, notifications, manage media, committed atomically when you finish)
• Cloud Photos widget mode (pick photos from your encrypted cloud cache to show on the home screen; the source bytes never enter the device photo index, so other apps and the system picker can't see them)
• Delete after backup (optional toggle that removes the device copy as soon as the cloud upload succeeds, with a system trash consent notification that drains the next time you unlock the phone)
• Settings redesign (every section collapses with an animated chevron, Appearance and Language combined on one page, descriptions under every toggle, Recently Deleted moved under Storage)
• Sandbox hardening (cleartext blocked everywhere, only the system trust store is trusted so a user-added certificate authority cannot intercept, TLS pin extended to CDN traffic, all log calls stripped in release, app state cannot migrate via Google Drive auto-backup or device transfer)
• Unified error popup (copyable, expandable, with sensitive details redacted) replaces a half-dozen ad-hoc snackbars and toasts across the app
• Multi-select with mixed device + cloud selections is now guarded with a clear hint instead of silently dropping items from Add to album
• Cloud album rename (parity with local albums; the dialog and the underlying Drive call were both wired end-to-end)
• Language picker applies live so the wizard re-themes on every pick
• All six locales (en, hu, de, es, fr, it) refreshed with the new strings; orphan string keys removed
• Video editor rebuilt across trim, crop, rotate, and the music-overlay layer (live preview matches the saved output frame for frame; rotation uses orientation metadata so 90 / 180 / 270 degree edits keep aspect ratio perfectly)
• Music overlay with separate gain sliders for the original audio and any added track, real sample-by-sample PCM mixing under the hood
• HDR preserved on trim, rotate, and audio-only edits via stream-copy (only the crop path applies a full re-encode because the rect has to be baked in)
• Video editor save flow no longer double-transcodes; cloud edits upload as a single new revision and surface in the gallery immediately

• Reliable background backup (photos and videos start uploading within seconds of capture, even after you swipe the app from recents, also kicks when you unlock the phone)
• Three-photo parallel uploads (large backlogs catch up roughly 3× faster than serial)
• Exclude folders from "Back up everything" (new screen in Sync settings, pick Screenshots, Movies, WhatsApp Status, anything you don't want on Drive; already-uploaded items stay on Drive)
• Redesigned Sync settings (two clear sections, what gets backed up, and when it happens, the interval picker is gone, "Auto-sync" renamed to "Continuous backup")
• Backup keeps going after reboot (no need to open the app to re-arm it)
• Cleaner upload notifications (no more "0 of 0 uploaded" flicker, no more two overlapping notifications during a batch)
• Editor Adjust labels translated to Hungarian, German, Spanish, French, Italian (brightness, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, tone, temperature were stuck in English)
• Localized background-sync, calendar and search labels in all 6 languages
• More reliable long upload runs (cancels cleanly when you stop, no more rare crashes after large batches)

• Calendar view (you can add a place and a description to a day, see all the photos and videos taken on that day, swipe between months horizontally or scroll vertically)
• Redesigned image editor (more modern look, more adjustments, exposure, highlights, shadows, tone, temperature alongside brightness, contrast and saturation; slimmer slider; clearer pill-based navigation)
• Better pinch-to-zoom on the photos page (grouping by day, month or year depending on the zoom; multiple level changes within one continuous gesture)
• Search screen update (recent photos at the top, an "On this day" carousel, and a "Jump to month" grid so you can dive into a past month with one tap)

• Six colour palettes in Settings: Default, Forest, Sunset, Sea, Sepia, Mono
• Quick-set an album cover by long-pressing any photo inside the album
• "Set as album cover" in the viewer overflow menu when you opened the photo from an album
• Android 17 stability fix for first-launch crashes during sync and album loads
• Viewer no longer shows the wrong page's photo if you swipe faster than it can load
• No more false "Save failed" toast when you back out of an in-progress edit
• GitHub issue template with a built-in logcat capture how-to that doesn't need any third-party app
• New strings translated to German, Spanish, French, Hungarian and Italian

• Video editor: trim, crop, rotate, music overlay with audio trim
• Edit cloud-hosted videos (download, edit, upload back as a paired copy)
• Drive web playback fix, uploads now reconstruct correctly on the web client
• "Back up everything" mode, auto-upload every photo and video without picking folders
• Reinstall pairing, previously backed-up photos rejoin Synced state automatically
• Slideshow with video support, waits for clips to finish before advancing
• Multi-step share dialog, email chips, viewer/editor permissions, optional message
• Multi-select bulk actions: download, add to album, delete, hide, strip metadata
• "On this day" memories card on the gallery
• Offline mode, cached photos browse and play without a network connection
• Lazy thumbnail decryption, gallery populates instantly, thumbnails resolve as you scroll
• Hidden vault hardening, blur overlay, capture-time preserved through hide/unhide round-trip
• Pinch-zoom on the photos grid with discrete column counts (2 / 3 / 4 / 6 wide)
• Resilient upload, DNS, SSL and read-error retries with exponential backoff
• Stability fix for a native-crypto crash on newer Android versions

• Search page with filename and content filters (media type, sync state, year, month)
• Draggable timeline scrubber on the photos grid with date tooltip
• Editor crop tool with aspect ratio presets (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16)
• Save edits back to the original photo with a system consent dialog
• Dedicated Storage page in Settings (Drive quota, device, app cache, recently deleted)
• Configurable app lock with timeout (immediate, 1, 5, 15 min)
• OneDrive-style event-driven background sync, picks up new photos as they land
• Pull-to-refresh on album detail, HD thumbnails, smoother gallery scrolling
• Multi-address account decryption, 2FA login flow, install crash on Android 16 devices
• Full localization of the Shared albums screen (en, hu, de, es, fr, it)

• Native Android gallery for Proton Drive Photos
• Local and Drive photos side by side, two-way sync
• Built-in editor (adjust, filter, redact, rotate)
• Per-field EXIF stripping on upload (GPS, camera, timestamps, software)
• Biometric-locked hidden vault
• Configurable per-folder backup with Wi-Fi-only option
• 30-day cloud trash with restore
• Home-screen widget
• 6 locales (en, hu, de, es, fr, it), light / dark / system theme

New

• Face recognition: photos are grouped by the people in them, right on the PC. With Automatic backup on, a name you give here also shows on the phone, and the other way round
• Search for what's in a photo: type "beach at sunset" or "dog in the snow" and get the photos that show it
• Face recognition and search each have their own switch. The scan reads several photos at once at Gentle, Balanced or Fast speed, and goes Gentle by itself on battery
• Automatic backup with your phone: faces, names, labels, hidden photos and the search index stay the same on the PC and the phone. Settings lists each device's backup on Drive, and turning it on says which version the phone needs: Photos for Proton 2.6.0 or newer
• Names stay in step with the phone: a later rename or merge wins on every device, a removed name stays removed, and photos the phone has already scanned are not scanned again. "adam" and "Adam" are the same person, while "Ádám" and "Adam" are two
• Copy text from photos: select the text in a photo, such as a receipt or a sign, and copy it
• Find identical and similar photos and move the extra copies to the trash in one go
• Hide photos and albums behind Windows Hello, and lock the whole app with it if you like
• Change the date of photos on Drive beside the photo in the viewer or beside the grid, also in an album, or fix many at once on the Fix dates page. Albums, favourites and faces stay with the photo. Thanks to TheLastEnvoy for the lossless date writer behind it (#7)
• Upload straight from a camera or phone connected by USB, or bring photos over from My files. Photos and videos can be made smaller on upload, as on the phone, also those put in the Proton Photos folder in File Explorer or on the Proton Photos drive in the Linux file manager
• Keep on this PC can now download every photo, with Pause and Resume, and an album can be kept offline in the app. Downloads wait near a data limit, with Battery Saver on, on battery and when space runs low
• Photos, Collections and Utilities each have their own group in the sidebar, and Favorites has a page of its own. Settings is grouped like the phone's, has a search, and can save a diagnostics report to share
• You sign in on Proton's own page in your browser, so the app never sees your password
• A Linux version as a Flatpak: Proton Photos in the file manager, photos and videos made smaller on upload, and hidden photos and the app lock behind a password of their own

Fixed and improved

• When File Explorer is turned off, the app says why and where the files left in its folder came from
• The File Explorer folder fills again right after you sign back in, also with many albums, and new photos are no longer missed
• A reinstall keeps the File Explorer choice, and uninstalling never moves your photos to the trash
• A session that ended on Proton's side is noticed within a minute, and another account signing in finds nothing of the last one. The same account coming back keeps everything
• An update installs completely or not at all, also while the app is running, and the app is asked to close first
• F5 keeps the page you are on
• An album takes its date from its photos and can list its contents
• A folder upload shows its album at once, also when its photos were already in the library
• A see-through picture gets a white thumbnail instead of a black one
• The map no longer searches again on every start
• Started with no connection, the app opens on the photos kept offline instead of waiting at the sign-in, and the whole library comes back by itself once Proton can be reached

Photo editor

• Laid out like the Android editor: the tools in one bar at the bottom, and every tool that needs room in a panel on the right
• New adjustments: vibrance, sharpen, grain, vignette and fade, plus Auto-fix, and every adjustment has its own reset
• Straighten and keystone correction
• Draw with a pen and add text, with colour, size, background and rotation
• Hide faces finds the faces in a photo and pixelates or blurs them, on this PC, with the face detector the Android app uses, downloaded once the first time
• Frames in common shapes and Polaroid, filled with a colour, a colour picked from the photo, or a soft blur of the photo
• Curves and colour (HSL) controls, and filters shown as large previews
• Hold the photo to compare with the original
• Save as a copy at full size, 2048 or 1024 pixels, with a quality setting, and a photo on this PC also as PNG or WebP; the date, place and camera stay with the copy

Photo viewer

• A calm grey ground around the photo, in the colours of your palette, and black with the pure black option
• Edit first in the top bar, the name in the middle, and a bar at the bottom with the file type, size, zoom level, a zoom slider and full screen
• Smooth zooming, up to the photo's real pixels and beyond, that works only over the photo
• Details and the list of photos open as panels beside the photo, which glides out of their way
• The scroll wheel scrolls the filmstrip sideways

Dialogs and selection

• Add to album shows your albums with their covers and a search
• A clearer share dialog, with the viewer or editor choice as a switch
• A selection shows in the page header, with its actions where sort and filter were, instead of a bar floating over the photos

Updating

• The app installs only updates signed by the developer
• From this version on, an update downloads only the files that changed, and a broken download picks up where it stopped
• An app kept in the tray checks again when its window comes back after a few hours
• Automatic updates can be turned off in Settings, under About; a copy built from the source code leaves them off unless turned on

Smoother

• Thumbnails that scrolled out of view are no longer fetched, and a thumbnail that failed to load tries again

A new layout

• Your library, albums, shared albums and the trash sit in a sidebar, with the search, Upload and settings in a strip across the top
• Sort and filter menus, and shortcuts to People, Labels, Collection, Offline and Map in the sidebar
• The sidebar folds down to a slim rail, and the window opens where you left it, large and centred the first time
• Settings opens as a page of its own, with every setting on one page

File Explorer, both ways

• Copy photos into the Proton Photos folder to upload them, and make a folder under Albums for a new album
• Rename photos and albums, move a photo into Favorites or an album, and drag one out of Trash to restore it
• Deleting moves a photo to the Proton trash, where it can be restored for 30 days; a notification says what each delete did
• Changes made in the app show up in the folder too, and the app says what the folder is syncing and why
• Deleting and renaming from Explorer can be switched off in Settings

From your phone

• People, labels and the search index the Android app saves to Proton Drive, each on its own switch, kept up to date in the background
• Find photos by what they show, such as "dog in the snow", matched on this PC
• A Collection of days and seasons from past years, and a Map of where your photos were taken with a searchable list of places
• Invitations to shared albums can be accepted or declined from Shared

A better search

• One search over photos, albums, people and labels
• Dates such as "2026 january", names, labels and categories such as videos or screenshots become pills you can combine

Uploading

• Upload has a page of its own, with a summary whose counts filter the files while it runs
• Uploads on a slow connection no longer fail with "fetch failed", show how far each file is, and retry on their own after a passing failure
• A lost connection waits for the network instead of asking you to sign in again

Smoother

• Zooming the grid glides, resizing the window keeps the photos in place, and a filter no longer changes the tile size
• Photos in albums stay hidden from the first moment when that setting is on
• The photos and pages on screen load before background work, so the grid no longer sits empty during the first start
• Large libraries stay responsive, and the app recovers on its own when its background process stops

Colours and sign-in

• Five new palettes, a pure black option beside any palette, a clearer light mode and larger text
• Signing in with email and password takes the browser option's place, with a way back
• Signing out asks first

Updating

• From this version on, the app updates itself when it opens: the new version downloads with its progress shown while the app stays usable, waits for uploads to finish, installs, and opens again
• The installer shows the update while it runs, instead of working out of sight

Signing in

• Sign in on Proton's own page in your browser. Your password, second factor and any captcha are entered there and never reach the app, and security keys work too
• Then choose how this PC keeps you signed in: a password of your own, asked at every start, or none, with your Windows account protecting it

Importing

• Import a Google Takeout or an Ente export, as a folder or as zip files
• Review everything before it uploads, and leave out what you do not want
• Dates, places, albums, favourites and Live Photos are kept, and photos already in your library are skipped

Faster

• Large libraries scroll, zoom, filter and select without stalling, and thumbnails load much faster

Uploading

• Upload straight into an album
• Uploading a folder again reuses its album instead of creating a second one
• Large photos no longer fail with "The block content is too large"