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from the team:

Hi everyone,

We’ve heard your feedback that many of you would like to quickly add an email AND username to a login item in Proton Pass without having to use custom fields.

Today, we’re happy to share that we’re introducing a dedicated username field for exactly this reason! Rolling out now on all platforms. Simply tap the (+) sign to the left of the email field to reveal the username field.

Let us know what you think! You can also propose, vote, and discuss feature requests on ~User Voice~.

Proton Team

Please help me vote: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-proton-mail/suggestions/47562803-snooze-function-also-when-conversation-grouping-is

from the team:

Hi everyone,

If you haven’t visited our blog recently, here’s an overview of the main Proton Drive announcements from the past three months:

Improvements: ✉️ A new sharing feature provides more security and control. It allows you to share files and folders with a specific email user together with a message for the recipient.

📷 Photo backup is now available on iOS too.

✍️ Last week, we introduced Docs in Proton Drive, making it possible to collaborate in real-time, leave comments, add photos, and store your documents, all in a private environment.

Speaking of sharing, many people use WeTransfer to share files when they are large, as well as WhatsApp when they are small. Here are some things you need to consider if you’re using these two services:

WeTransfer: https://proton.me/blog/is-wetransfer-safe

WhatsApp: https://proton.me/blog/whatsapp-safe-private-photos

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here(we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comments.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

If you haven’t visited the Proton VPN blog recently, here’s an overview of the posts published in June:

🏷️ The best AirTag alternative solutions to improve your privacy and security. We have previously discussed the privacy risks of AirTag use. Now, we offer a comparative list of alternatives you can use.

🏠 Why WFH employees should use a remote access VPN? In 2023, roughly 40% of workers in the US worked remotely or on hybrid schedules. This arrangement offers benefits to employees and employers, but it also introduces new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Fortunately, this can be easily solved with a remote access VPN.

🗺️ What is IP allowlisting? Learn how this security mechanism works and what its advantages and disadvantages are.

In addition to that, we had a huge update to our server infrastructure which we’ve already surpassed. Proton VPN now has over 6000 servers in 100 countries.

You can follow our blog here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We have a big month behind us, and in case you haven’t been on Reddit much this June, here are the highlights:

💜 To strengthen our commitment to you and our mission, Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure. Most companies are created to be sold, and they achieve that by placing profit above all other considerations. For most businesses providing “services” to the masses, the easiest way to profit has been to misuse user data and engage in surveillance capitalism to the detriment of society and democracy. At Proton, we have intentionally taken a different path to achieve a more difficult mission where people come before profits.

🔑 With the addition of macOS and Linux app, as well as the Safari browser extension, Proton Pass is now available across all major platforms.

☁️ We’ve added major new functionalities to ProtonDrive, most importantly the option to share files and folders directly with your recipients by entering their email and the long-awaited photo backup functionality on our iOS app.

Among online privacy news, you have been most interested in Google’s DMA compliance plan (spoiler: it’s a sham).

As usual, tips on what you need to pay attention to in order to protect your online privacy were some of the most widely read:

📶 what to do about WiFi pods that can represent a privacy risk

⌨️ how to prevent password spraying attacks

📑 a quick list of things you can do to protect your personal information online

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comments.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We heard your feedback, and we're happy to announce that you can now secure your Proton Pass with an extra password in addition to your existing Proton account password.

Thank you to our Visionary members who already had a chance to check out this feature!

All Proton Accounts are already secured with strong, robust encryption, but our optional extra password feature allows you to compartmentalize your Proton Pass account. It lets you create an extra password you must enter before you can access your logins and other sensitive information in Pass.

With the extra password enabled, even if an attacker gets a hold of the password to your Proton Account, they cannot access your Pass account unless they also know your extra password. Be sure to store your extra password securely!

This feature is rolling out today for all Lifetime plans, followed by a staged release for Unlimited plans, and available to everyone else over the coming days: https://proton.me/support/pass-extra-password

Let us know what you think! You can also share, vote and discuss ideas on User Voice.

Proton Team

from the team:

Hi everyone,

Thanks to your ongoing feedback, we’re pleased to introduce Secure Link Sharing in Proton Pass for all Proton Pass paid plans.

You asked for a simpler way to share a single item, like streaming passwords, family notes, and credit cards, and now you can! Complete with a configurable expiry.

With Secure Link Sharing, you can share with anyone, even if the recipient doesn’t have a Proton account, http://proton.me/blog/pass-secure-link-sharing

Here’s how it works:

• Easy as copy and paste: Easily generate, update, or delete secure links with just a few clicks in any app.
• You’re in control: Set an expiration date for the link (from one hour to 30 days) or limit the number of accesses.
• Encrypted at all times: Secure links are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring only you and the people you share with can access your data.

This feature is rolling out progressively to all users on paid plans, starting first with Lifetime, Visionary, and Unlimited users. It will be available to everyone in the coming days.

Haven’t signed up yet? Upgrade now and get your first year for $1/month (limited-time offer eligible for new users only).

Let us know what you think! You can also share, vote and discuss ideas on User Voice.

Proton Team

The official guide from Proton, https://protonvpn.com/support/ios-vpn-setup/, requires the use of "OpenVPN Connect" app.

Some inspiration from this guide: https://surfshark.com/blog/how-to-setup-vpn-on-iphone, tells me that I can possibly setup vpn manually on iOS via:

Go to Settings > General > VPN & Device Management > Click on the VPN tab.

Click on Add VPN Configuration.

. .

However, I will need the following information::

• Type: IKEv2.

• Description: Your preferred name of the connection.

• Server: The hostname of the server.

• Remote ID: Copy the hostname you put in the Server line.

• Local ID: Leave it empty.

• User Authentication: Username.

• Username: Put in the service credentials,.

• Password: Put in the service credentials,.

• Proxy: Off.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We’re happy to share that Split Tunnelling is now available on Android TV. Choose which apps are protected by Proton VPN.

Let us know what you think! You also can propose, vote and discuss feature requests on User Voice.

Proton Team

I'm currently in the middle of moving all of my photos, but I have a couple of issues that have come up.

• The first one has to do with metadata.When I replaced my phone recently, all the photo files were marked as "created" on the same day. They still show in the correct order by datestamp in Google Photos, but everything older than last April is just an undifferentiated mess. Is there a way to get them back in the right order?

• I have thousands of photos. Is there a way to easily see the total number in both Google and Proton to compare that everything is indeed backed up?

• There does not seem to be a way to jump to a particular date in Proton, which makes it arduous to find any photos, even if they were in the right order. Is there something I am missing? Is this feature coming?

These issues prevent me from being able to complete the switch. Can anyone help?

Hey everyone, from the team:

Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce the release of Docs in Proton Drive starting today - an end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor and one of the most requested functionalities from the Proton community.

⏳ Docs in Proton Drive starts rolling out today and will be available to everyone over the next few days. Make sure you’re running the latest versions of the Drive desktop and mobile apps.

We built docs in Proton Drive as a joint project with the team from Standard Notes, who shares our core values around privacy and security.

Like all other Proton services, Docs puts you in control of your data. Your documents are only accessible to you and those you share them with, and even your keystrokes and cursor movements are encrypted.

Now, you can create, edit, and collaborate on documents with your family, friends, or colleagues!

With Docs in Proton Drive, you can:

✍️ create new documents and edit them in the Drive web app

🤝 collaborate on documents asynchronously & in real-time

🙋‍♀️ see who else is viewing or editing your documents with live cursors and presence indicators

💬 share feedback using comments and replies

↕️ import and edit .txt / .docx and export in other formats like .pdf, .txt, .md, and .html

💻 access your documents securely from anywhere

All documents created with Docs have a maximum size of 50MB and are automatically saved in your current folder on Proton Drive.

A privacy-respecting alternative to Big Tech

Far too often, online productivity suites require you to accept surveillance as a condition of use. Docs is a milestone in our journey to building a better internet where privacy is the default and another important step towards advancing the mission of the non-profit Proton Foundation.

We're eager to know what you think! Thank you for your continuous support,

Proton Team

Now that i upgraded to unlimited, I have access to all servers.

can I choose the city for my vpn connection?

protonvpn-cli c --cc US will connect to any US server

protonvpn-cli c US-CA#123 will connect to server #123

what if I want to connect to ANY CA server in US?

I'm on proton unlimited and I turned on Dark Web Monitoring. I figure since i use bitwarden for my password manager, i need to manually sync my passwords so proton can monitor for them. what about more important stuff like adresses, DOB, SSN, etc? proton says here that they can monitor for all that stuff, but how, if they dont have it?

... with one picture:

Thank you!

This is a feature that I miss, along with attachments on calendar events. I was thinking of building something myself using NLP and NER to read an email and extract calendar details from it, but I'd need access to an API to be able to do that and the API is no longer public. Is there any way to either get access to these APIs or some other workaround for this?

Is there a process for exporting everything that's saved in Proton Drive to something local, such as my laptop, or an external hard drive, so that I have that backup in-hand? (Windows 10, Android)

Thank you -

This might sound antithetical to the privacy-by-default standard, but my wife and I currently share our photo rolls with each other (using Google Photos)--everything we take is automatically shared with the other.

Is there anything in Proton Drive/Photos that would allow this? Even if it's only available within a family plan or something. I know that with Drive, we could share a directory and everything in that would be available to the other, but I don't see this as an option in the photos.

Alternatively, I suppose we could both sign in to Proton Drive using a third account just for that purpose, but that's less ideal.

On Android, I noticed two major features that are missing that make it extremely difficult to use the mobile version for me:

1. I can't add inline attachments. This makes communicating with clients and pointing at stuff impossible on mobile.
2. I can't browse existing attachments to view and remove them. This means I have to start my reply all over again and delete the draft if I uploaded the wrong thing, and I can't validate that I did upload the right thing.

Also, pasting into a message body is broken on the beta, but working on stable (the only option is "select all")

There's also no rich text, which is sometimes painful when writing long emails on the go, and it means I can't bold stuff to indicate importance.

I also had issues with sent emails from drafts where a draft was created on mobile, finished on the web and sent, the mobile client will show as if I had sent the unfinished mobile draft, which sent me into a panic last night haha.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

As you may know, Proton VPN has repeatedly proven effective anti-censorship tools, allowing people to find trustworthy news sources and access obstructed content.

To make Proton VPN’s anti-censorship features even more accessible, we made it possible to log in to the Android app without creating an account. Now you can log in and use the Proton VPN Android app for free without entering any credentials (i.e. you can “continue as guest”):

Together with the constant expansion of our infrastructure (over 6000 servers in close to 100 countries), we believe that this will help our privacy-first VPN service reach those who need it the most more efficiently than ever.

Thank you for your support,

The Proton Team

from the team:

Hi everyone,

This year, over 60 countries — home to half of the world's population — will hold national elections. As we've seen time and time again, VPNs have proven effective anti-censorship tools, allowing people to find trustworthy news sources and access obstructed content.

To ensure people can access accurate information before they cast their vote, we have decided to provide free Proton VPN servers in countries with a history of censorship or political interference in the weeks leading up to the elections: https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-servers-before-elections. Today, we’re expanding this list to 5 more countries.

The servers will be switched from paid to free for the period of the election.

List of countries holding elections this year where Proton VPN will provide free servers:

• Rwanda
• Syria (newly added)
• Venezuela
• Algeria
• Jordan (newly added)
• Brazil (newly added)
• Mozambique
• Somaliland
• Mauritius
• Uzbekistan (newly added)
• Sri Lanka
• Tunisia (newly added)

List of countries that already held elections (or are about to hold them), where Proton VPN provided free servers:

• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Pakistan
• Senegal
• Turkey
• Togo
• Chad
• Mauritania (free servers currently available)

Since we launched Proton VPN Observatory, we have documented spikes in Proton VPN signups in real-time (most recently in Kenya), making it an effective measurement of anti-censorship activity in response to various crises worldwide.

We believe this, along with expanding our server infrastructure to include over 6,000 servers in close to 100 countries and making Proton VPN more accessible to users globally, will help make the use of the internet more free and unrestricted globally.

Thank you for your support,

The Proton Team

I just had few basic question about the iOS automatic upload for photos

First will it upload all albums or can I choose which albums it will upload?

Second will deleting a picture from drive delete in photos or vise versa, I’m assuming they’re independent of each other apart from the automatic upload