As someone who tried to organize a few hundred photos on iOS, the UX is severely crippled. For example, moving pictures from one album to another, or an album from one folder to another, are still unimplemented, among many other simple things.

It might have all those good features, but it lacks a practical user experience.

I’m currently using iCloud. It’s great, but the E2EE comes with the huge caveat that they scan your photos before encrypting, against a giant unaccountable database of hashes for bad stuff.

Even though I totally believe that the current set of hashes really does represent truly horrible stuff, I also suspect that it will expand over time to include anything that threatens those in power. In other words: they are coming for your Bernie memes.

So I would like to have a more secure option that doesn’t depend on the whims of the powerful to decide which images I’m allowed to own.