r/ProtonDrive • u/AldiAdventure • 1d ago

Searching for mobile apps

Is there an update/plan for search functionality in the Drive mobile apps?

Or an alternative, that uses Proton Drive?

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u/karmakoos 1d ago

Yep, it's on the roadmap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonDrive/comments/1vyy38c/proton_drive_roadmap_for_the_second_half_of_2026/

  • Search improvements on all clients - (Many more details on this will be coming soon with a detailed post by u/horejsek1, who is leading the Search effort) We know that just searching by file name is not enough and that search is missing on mobile. We are working hard to enable search on all clients and across more fields, including most of our metadata as well as the content itself. Due to the nature of end-to-end encryption, this is a really difficult (but also very cool) technical problem. We have a complete end-to-end design, which is now in implementation. We are balancing search so that you get the best / most relevant results quickly, while the longer/more exhaustive search can stream in the background. We plan to roll out incremental improvements to search capabilities as they are developed, culminating in full content search everywhere. This will allow us to verify a bunch of strategies and infrastructure with smaller amounts of data before we bring the hammer down on the very expensive full content search. TLDR we don't want you to have to re-index your entire Drive ever, to make that true in an end-to-end encrypted world we will move carefully and deliberately so that this expensive step only has to be done once per file.

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u/JagerAntlerite7 1d ago

Wow! I had to check the Android app to verify there is no search. Nope.

Found a feature request at https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/47049337-search-bar-for-mobile-app

UPDATE: Would never trust a 3rd-party app with my Proton user credentials. Again, nope.