Proton Drive: Photo Backup on Windows Pc

Private and secure cloud storage and photo app brought to you by the world-class team behind Proton Mail and VPN. Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files, photos, and videos, that ensures nobody, except those authorized by you, can access your files. Over 100 million people and businesses have signed up for Proton.


Why use Proton Drive?

• Safely backup photos and videos: Once enabled, your photos and videos are encrypted on your phones and automatically backed up in their original quality
• End-to-end encrypted: The privacy of your memories is guaranteed by automatic and seamless encryption
• Safegaurd your photos with an app lock - Prevent unathorized access to your private photos and videos with an extra layer of security using your phone's PIN or biometrics to lock and unlock the app
• Backup photos and videos of all sizes - Proton Drive does not impose any limitations on the size of photos and videos you can safely store and backup
• Intuitive, user-friendly photo gallery - Photos and videos are presented in a user-friendly grid view and organized by month
• Share photos securely: Share your private photos and videos with secure links and additional layers of security such as passwords, link expiration and access removal
• Offline access for your photos and files - Safely access important photos and files on the go even without access to the internet by marking them for offline access
• Metadata encryption: Actual content of your files and photos as well important metadata such as filename, file size, date of modification are protected by end-to-end encryption
• Open-source and audited: Proton Drive’s uses open source software so that anyone can check our code, which has also been audited by third-party experts
• Easy to use: Fast, reliable, and intuitive file storage and photo backup experience
• Zero knowledge encrypted: all files are stored in encrypted format — not even Proton employees can read your files
• Feature-rich free plan: Protect all your photos and files with strong encryption even on our free plan: no advertising, no data harvesting, and no strings attached
• Swiss privacy and neutrality: Proton Drive is hosted in Switzerland, so your photos, files and documents are protected by the world's strongest privacy laws
With the Proton Drive app, you can:

• Backup photos and videos securely from your Android smartphone
• Upload documents and store photos and videos from your mobile device
• Share a secure link to your files or your photos with anyone, even those without a Proton account
• Protect your account with a PIN code
• Select and access your files or folders offline
• Organize your files easily and securely in the app: rename, move or delete them

New updates to enhance your Proton Drive! We've made the Photos tab the default for direct access and introduced shortcuts for swift navigation to Files, Shared, and Computers tabs. For free users, we've added a Checklist in the side menu to unlock 5 GB of storage easily.

Fixes include:
- Optimized photo scanning for less battery and storage use.
- Fixed the endless encrypting/backing up issue after stopping the backup.

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Permission an application must hold in order to use ACTION_REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.