Step aside, Google Photos.

Proton Drive now offers automated photo backup with end-to-end encryption on iOS.

This feature is available to both free and paid Proton Drive users.

An illustration of Proton Drive’s new photo backup feature on a smartphone.

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Proton Drive photo backup initially launched in December 2023 as anAndroid-exclusive feature.

Photo and video backups occur automatically.

As soon as something hits your camera roll, it’s encrypted and sent to your Proton Drive account.

People can securely share photos or videos from their Proton Drive account.

There aren’t anyphoto-editing toolsin Proton Drive, either.

(These features require cloud-based processing, which is hard to implement alongside end-to-end encryption.)

Those who are interested in privacy should look into Proton’s suite of end-to-end encrypted products.

you could effectively “de-Google” your life by joining the Proton ecosystem.

Just know that the free versions of Proton’s products are somewhat restrictive and lack some functionality.

Both free and paid users can utilize Proton Drive photo backup.