from the team:

When thinking about how Proton Drive apps interact with our backend, our goal was to deliver faster, more reliable file operations across all platforms.

So today, we wanted to share a progress update on the Proton Drive SDK and what it unlocks next.

Behind the scenes, the SDK now powers core file operations across all Proton Drive apps - Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and web - giving us a shared, more robust foundation instead of separate implementations per platform.

Improvements

By rebuilding Drive’s most performance-intensive code in the SDK, we’ve already delivered major gains: up to 60% faster uploads on iOS, and up to 30% faster uploads and 70% faster downloads on web, with better reliability on unstable networks.

Support

What does the SDK support right now? Currently, it supports core file operations such as uploading and downloading, creating folders, renaming and moving items, and deleting or restoring files. Authentication and Proton-specific modules aren’t supported yet, so it’s best suited for contributors and early experimentation.

CLI

To cover workflows not yet supported by the SDK, we’re also building CLI tools. These will let you run common Drive commands and build on top of them without reverse-engineering Proton Drive. We’re aiming to release these next quarter.

What's Next?

Looking ahead to 2026, we’ll migrate all existing Drive features to the SDK and build new ones on top of it — including faster encryption with hardware acceleration, expanded SDK capabilities, a clearer integration path, and a Linux client.

Read the full update: https://proton.me/blog/drive-sdk-january-2026

Stay safe,

Proton team

better late posting than never. From the team:

The Pass Command Line Interface, which had a beta release recently, is now officially launched.

We’ve often heard from our community that making Proton Pass data easily accessible in the terminal would significantly improve workflows, especially for development, scripting, and automation.

This update means that you can now securely retrieve secrets and other items across scripts, deployments, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Enjoy!

from the team:

Looking for quicker access to options like copy, edit, and pin in Proton Pass? Our recent release (1.33.2) gives you just that.

Get things done more efficiently with the ability to right click your entries on web, desktop, and browser extensions.

I have photo backup turned on but as I believe it should just upload the picture to Proton Drive and that is that.

I see nothing on "offline files" (ie. tap it to make it available offline) so why would it be using 6+GB of storage? I assume it'd be fine to just clear storage and login again but it's odd that is using so much if it's not duplicating (I would hope not) my already taken pics from the DCIM directory.

Peace be with you, Proton Community, 🌹

I was trying to find out which search engine Lumo uses in the background. To do this, I used the official contact form here: https://proton.me/support/contact?topic=lumo.

Unfortunately, I later realized that the official site lists "protonmail.zendesk", not "protonme.zendesk". The domain "protonme.zendesk" looks suspicious, and many sites online report it as a phishing attempt.

I have already taken security precautions on my end, but I want to be absolutely sure before I report this domain as malicious. Has anyone else seen this? Please let me know if you think this is phishing. And i hope you can answer my question about the search engine 😁

Thanks for the help.

For several days now... Does it come back?

I'm a longtime user of Standard Notes. It's an incredible app and I love it.

Recently, I've started using Granola to transcribe my work meetings. It's very useful but ultimately I don't trust it: It's proprietary, and I don't know what it's doing with my data. I would love to get off of Granola but I don't know of any FOSS alternative.

It occurs to me that Standard Notes could come in useful here. SN/Proton is probably the only company that I would trust to protect the privacy of my meeting transcriptions. If they added this feature, I would gladly pay (or hopefully it could be added to my existing Proton subscription). And since Proton already has an in-house AI, I would feel safe using their model.

Alternately, I could try to build my own meeting transcription/notes tool, the way this guy did for Linux. That would meet some of my needs: I could have a locally-run AI that transcribes my meetings and another that converts those transcripts into notes. That would preserve my privacy. But building an entire app (that syncs between clients on MacOS, Windows, and Android) is WAY beyond me right now. Would love to simply pay the good folks at Proton/SN!

Unless someone else has found a way to make this work?

Video description explicitly mentions a partnership (not just affiliate link) + 2min 20s segment embedded in the video.

The person in question: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Lapierre

User Lumpy_Carpet9877 shares more info:

Vincent Lapierre’s Wikipedia page is quite explicit about his far-right positioning and includes numerous sources. He worked for several years for a far-right organization founded by Alain Soral, which promotes anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracist, sexist, masculinist, transphobic, and homophobic ideas, and who fled to Russia to escape justice.

He is close to Dieudonné) (a Holocaust denier). He founded Le Média pour tous, a far-right website that particularly targets anti-fascists and defenders of Jewish rights. He has always been close to conspiracist circles

I'll add that if you dare venture on his youtube channel (at the risk of ruining your suggestion algorithm like I did to provide the screenshot), you'll see that most videos are typical far right content / talking points

Update: read Proton's response below

You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.

Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.

Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn't have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that's on us.

We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn't. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.

But that distinction doesn't excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn't meet it this time. We're now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn't happen again.

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance."

Cross posted from https://slrpnk.net/post/38664835

Today we take a look at an academic study about ID verification, and why some people aren't thrilled about it.

I've complained 2 times via the form and once via email directly, and proton doesnt even respond, I deleted my email thinking I was removing it from my device, wanted to restore it and I can't get a response for shit, I'm this close to deleting my main account cause this is some bullshit, you dont need 4 days to check your email as a whole ass company