Just opened Drive after upgrading to a family plan and saw that I got access to “Photo Backup”. I contacted support about the iOS beta when it was announced and was told that it’s not yet available for iOS. I am using the TestFlight version but not sure when this came through.
EDIT: I added a link to a folder on Drive which contains some screenshots from the iOS app.
Man damn I’m a Visionary user for a long time and contacted proton about the Photo as soon as it was announced; still nothing.
The first and only beta I’ve ever received of Proton products is the recent Mail for desktop; to anyone envying Visionary users their early beta access, don’t - most don’t get anything.
I’ll add some screenshots to the original post shortly.
As for how it’s going? It’s best summarised as “basic”.
It can either be turned on or off, there’s no option to filter for certain photos/videos to be uploaded or not.
You can’t see your photos within the “normal” file system where you’d normally go to upload a file. They are only visible in the “Photo” section.
When I enabled the feature it showed that I had “6800+ to backup”. The app has to be open to backup the photos, it’ll pause the upload as soon as you leave/minimise the app. It took about 13.5 hours for everything to get uploaded.
It works fine, it acts as a simple backup solution. I would like to see it developed a little more though. Having said that, I’m not sure if the Android app differs in any way.
EDIT:
Just noticed that it seems to check through all of your photos again when trying to backup after the app has been closed. It doesn’t take very long but it’s still there.
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Man damn I’m a Visionary user for a long time and contacted proton about the Photo as soon as it was announced; still nothing.
The first and only beta I’ve ever received of Proton products is the recent Mail for desktop; to anyone envying Visionary users their early beta access, don’t - most don’t get anything.
I have Proton Unlimited and also am using drive through TestFlight, but no photo backup yet.
As said before, it’s a gradual rollout.
There’s been no announcement from them either so not sure why I got it already.
It’s a function that’s still in beta, on a gradual rollout, so here you have some more data: https://proton.me/support/enable-photo-backup
Can you provide some screenshots? How’s it working?
I’ll add some screenshots to the original post shortly.
As for how it’s going? It’s best summarised as “basic”.
It works fine, it acts as a simple backup solution. I would like to see it developed a little more though. Having said that, I’m not sure if the Android app differs in any way.
EDIT: Just noticed that it seems to check through all of your photos again when trying to backup after the app has been closed. It doesn’t take very long but it’s still there.