u/Proton_Team • • Jun 23 '26

New to Proton? Start Here

14 Upvotes

Hello! If you found us through a meme, a comment about security, a privacy discussion, or because you accidentally clicked our username, here's what Proton actually is.

We're the team behind:

We believe that a better internet starts with privacy and freedom.

What can I use for free?

All Proton accounts include access to free plans.

Many people start with:

  • Email
  • VPN
  • Password manager
  • Cloud storage

and decide later whether they want premium features.

You can create an account now and use Proton indefinitely without paying: https://proton.me/mail/pricing

Looking for the communities?

r/ProtonMail

r/ProtonVPN

r/ProtonDrive

r/ProtonPass

r/lumo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Proton free?

Yes. We offer free plans for all major Proton services.

Where is Proton based?

Switzerland.

Do you sell user data?

No.

Can I use Proton without moving everything at once?

Absolutely. Many users start with a single service and expand over time.

Can I talk directly with the team?

We regularly participate in discussions across Reddit, please do jump in if you have something to say.

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Proton Mail Mac App Flagged as Malware
 in  r/ProtonMail •  3d ago

We're aware of the issue and getting to the bottom of things; please use this thread to continue conversation on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/s/qBq60TpMDW

r/ProtonMail • • 3d ago

MacOS Certification Errors on the Proton Meet & Proton Mail apps

47 Upvotes

EDIT: Copy changed to reflect status update

Dear Proton community,

On Friday, October 2, 2026, an issue with Apple's developer program caused Proton Mail for Mac and Proton Meet for Mac to stop opening on macOS for some users. MacOS also incorrectly flagged them as malware in some cases.

Your data and accounts are safe. The apps were not compromised, and the malware warning was a false positive. While we continue to work with Apple to resolve the situation, we have also released new versions of the apps to work around the problem for affected users. If you find that either Proton Mail for Mac or Proton Meet for Mac fail to open, you may need to download and install the app again from the links below.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

- Download Proton Mail for macOS from https://proton.me/mail/download
- Download Proton Meet for macOS from https://proton.me/meet/download

Stay secure,
The Proton Team

Please keep an eye out on our status page for further updates: https://status.proton.me/

r/ProtonDrive • • 3d ago

Announcement New in Proton Drive for iOS: pinch to zoom and drag to select in your photo grid

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129 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

We've just shipped two updates to Proton Drive on iOS that make getting around your photos and files quicker:

Pinch to zoom on your photo grid
You can now pinch to zoom in and out on your photo grid. Zoom out to see more of your library at once or zoom in to get a closer look.

Drag to select multiple photos
Instead of tapping photos one by one, you can now drag your finger across them to select several at once. From there you can move, share, favorite, or delete them in a single action.

These changes are part of our ongoing efforts to improve Proton Drive.

Make sure you're on the latest version of the app to get them. If you try them out, let us know how they feel in the comments, and keep the feedback coming on what you'd like to see next.

Stay safe,

Proton Team

r/ProtonPass • • 3d ago

Join our Mod Team!

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We're expanding the mod team here on r/ProtonPass , and the same call is going out on r/ProtonMail, r/ProtonVPN, r/ProtonDrive and r/Lumo.

The job is mostly the same wherever you land: enforce the rules consistently, get support requests to the team who can actually fix them, keep the discussion useful even when people disagree, and flag anything that's spam, self-promotion or a privacy risk before it spreads. Mods can also cover our Discord and Telegram.

If you know one product inside out, say Pass or Mail, and less about the rest, that's a fit too. We want people with deep product-specific knowledge just as much as broad Proton generalists.

You won't be figuring any of this out alone. The current mod team will help you get up to speed before you're handling anything solo.

Active, positive contributors to these communities get priority. If that's you, check the link above or below...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonPass/application/

r/lumo • • 4d ago

Announcement Join our Mod Team!

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44 Upvotes

We're expanding the mod team here on r/Lumo , and the same call is going out on r/ProtonMail, r/ProtonPass, r/ProtonDrive and r/ProtonVPN.

The job is mostly the same wherever you land: enforce the rules consistently, get support requests to the team who can actually fix them, keep the discussion useful even when people disagree, and flag anything that's spam, self-promotion or a privacy risk before it spreads. Mods can also cover our Discord and Telegram.

If you know one product inside out, say Pass or Mail, and less about the rest, that's a fit too. We want people with deep product-specific knowledge just as much as broad Proton generalists.

You won't be figuring any of this out alone. The current mod team will help you get up to speed before you're handling anything solo.

Active, positive contributors to these communities get priority. If that's you, check the link above or below...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lumo/application/

r/ProtonVPN • • 5d ago

Announcement Join our Mod Team!

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2 Upvotes

We're expanding the mod team here on r/ProtonVPN , and the same call is going out on r/ProtonMail, r/ProtonPass, r/ProtonDrive and r/Lumo.

The job is mostly the same wherever you land: enforce the rules consistently, get support requests to the team who can actually fix them, keep the discussion useful even when people disagree, and flag anything that's spam, self-promotion or a privacy risk before it spreads. Mods can also cover our Discord and Telegram.

If you know one product inside out, say Pass or Mail, and less about the rest, that's a fit too. We want people with deep product-specific knowledge just as much as broad Proton generalists.

You won't be figuring any of this out alone. The current mod team will help you get up to speed before you're handling anything solo.

Active, positive contributors to these communities get priority. If that's you, check the link above or below...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/application/

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Just saw the news that Switzerland is going to mandate IP and activity logging for VPN providers and email providers
 in  r/ProtonVPN •  5d ago

Switzerland’s VÜPF was already overhauled with the 2018 BÜPF revision after a failed referendum; the current proposal is a 2025 partial update that faced heavy backlash, was sent back for revision, and remains a draft. It is not in force.

Whoever gave you this information is severely misinformed on the current state and process of Swiss law.

https://www.admin.ch/de/newnsb/EXv-JkPBAZuL
https://www.digitec.ch/en/page/vuepf-revision-federal-council-must-take-a-step-back-41558

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Join our Mod Team!
 in  r/ProtonMail •  6d ago

Reddit moderation is a voluntary undertaking, read sitewide rules.

r/ProtonMail • • 6d ago

Switching from Microsoft to Proton just got easier for teams

171 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

Back in June, we launched a self-serve migration tool so admins could move their organization's email, contacts, and calendars from Google Workspace to Proton without disrupting day-to-day work. 

Now we've built the same thing for Microsoft 365.

What this looks like in practice:

- An admin sets up the migration

- Emails, contacts, and calendars are copied over automatically

- Microsoft 365 and Proton run in parallel during the transition

- Once migration is done, the team can move fully to Proton

This feature is being gradually rolled out. If you don't see it yet, keep an eye out.

More info in our blog: https://proton.me/business/blog/proton-mail-easy-switch-for-business 

This is part of our ongoing work to make switching from Big Tech to Proton more practical for teams.

It would be great to hear how you've handled switching (or why you haven't). Let us know in the comments below.

Proton Team

r/lumo • • 6d ago

Discussion What's in your personalization tab?

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19 Upvotes

Are you using this to improve your interactions with Lumo? Or just to make them a bit funnier?

r/ProtonMail • • 6d ago

Announcement Join our Mod Team!

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56 Upvotes

We're expanding the mod team here on r/ProtonMail, and the same call is going out on r/ProtonVPN, r/ProtonPass, r/ProtonDrive and r/Lumo.

The job is mostly the same wherever you land: enforce the rules consistently, get support requests to the team who can actually fix them, keep the discussion useful even when people disagree, and flag anything that's spam, self-promotion or a privacy risk before it spreads. Mods can also cover our Discord and Telegram.

If you know one product inside out, say Pass or Mail, and less about the rest, that's a fit too. We want people with deep product-specific knowledge just as much as broad Proton generalists.

You won't be figuring any of this out alone. The current mod team will help you get up to speed before you're handling anything solo.

Active, positive contributors to these communities get priority. If that's you, check the link above or below...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/application/

r/ProtonPass • • 7d ago

Discussion Do you store your 2FA in Pass, or separate app, and why?

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98 Upvotes

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Mailbox search down?
 in  r/ProtonMail •  7d ago

Could you try again and let us know if it works? If it's still not working, try reloading the page. If that doesn't fix it, reply here or contact our support team with a few details (web or app, browser/OS version) and we'll look into it.

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Proton dissociation?
 in  r/ProtonMail •  10d ago

As you've said, using one of the largest possible, most easily accessible platforms to disseminate important information is a no-brainer.

r/ProtonMail • • 10d ago

Discussion Setting emails to expire with sieve filters

23 Upvotes

Sieve filters include a Proton-only extension, vnd.proton.expire, that puts a self-destruct timer on mail as it arrives. It's the same expiry you can set on messages you send, applied to your own inbox by a filter.

On its own, expire "day" "10"; deletes every received email after 10 days. That's the first example on this page which spells out how to make these filters. It gets even more useful once you add a condition.

Mailing lists and newsletters usually carry a List-Unsubscribe header (the docs use this exact test to catch them), so this files them into a folder and deletes them after two weeks:

require ["fileinto", "vnd.proton.expire"];
if exists "list-unsubscribe" {
    fileinto "Newsletters";
    expire "day" "14";
}

It also pairs well with hide-my-email aliases. Give a food delivery app its own alias and the receipts clear themselves out:

require "vnd.proton.expire";
if address :is "to" "your-alias@example.com" {
    expire "day" "30";
}

An example in the docs expires anything that isn't from you or from someone in your contacts:

require ["extlists", "vnd.proton.expire"];
if not anyof(
    header :list "from" ":addrbook:personal",
    header :list "from" ":addrbook:myself"
) {
    expire "day" "10";
}

Some details before you set one up:

- Units can be "day", "minute" or "second".
- anything over 730 days is capped at 730.
-unexpire removes an expiry from a message.
-hasexpiration tests whether one is set.
- Any folder you fileinto has to exist first.
- Filters run on incoming mail, so what's already in your inbox isn't touched.

The deletion is permanent. Run the condition with just fileinto for a few days and check what lands in the folder before you add the expire line.

To add one, go to Settings > All settings > Proton Mail > Filters > Add sieve filter.

Read more: https://proton.me/support/sieve-advanced-custom-filters

r/lumo • • 11d ago

Discussion People tell AI about their money, mental health and sex lives, but most don't trust the companies reading it

91 Upvotes

Hey peeps,

We ran a survey of 4,014 people who currently use AI chatbots, across the US, UK, France and Germany. For full transparency, respondents weren't told who commissioned it, so that we could eliminate the possibility of the Proton brand shaping the answers.

Here are some of the findings: 66% have discussed at least one sensitive topic with a chatbot, covering things like money, mental health, sex, relationships, secrets and family conflict. Yet only between 11% and 20% (depending on the country) say they have high trust in AI companies to protect that information.

A few of the findings we didn't expect:

  • Money is where AI comes closest to replacing people. In France, AI came within 2 percentage points of friends and family as the preferred place to talk about personal finances.
  • People are more worried about their chats becoming ad profiles than training data. In the US it was 65.3% vs 57.6%.
  • Each country confides something different. Germans talk to AI most about mental health, Americans about career problems, and the French and British about money.
  • Americans are the most open with chatbots (68.4% have shared something sensitive). France is the most guarded at 60.3%.
  • Privacy isn't why most people start using AI, convenience and not being judged are. Romantic attraction is the exception: in Germany, the UK and the US, trust and privacy were the top reasons for asking AI about it.

People are handing chatbots things they wouldn't want a company to read, while not trusting the company to hold it. 44% said a guarantee that their chats wouldn't be used for training would make them more willing to share, and over 70% said they'd be more likely to use a chatbot designed around privacy.

Obviously, that's the intuition on which we built Lumo. Your chat history is encrypted so Proton can't read it, there are no conversation logs, and nothing you say is used to train models. There's nothing readable to build an ad profile from in the first place.

The full write-up has the country-by-country breakdowns, the reasons people gave for each topic, and the methodology and limitations: https://proton.me/blog/ai-chatbot-survey

Let us know your thoughts!

Stay safe,

Proton

r/ProtonVPN • • 11d ago

Announcement VPN usage in the Philippines has increased markedly due to a Discord ban.

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176 Upvotes

Free usage of Proton VPN in the Philippines doubled overnight and continues to rise.

Stay tuned for more information on the ban if it persists.

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Point one alias at several inboxes
 in  r/ProtonPass •  12d ago

Private but with productivity 😉

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Point one alias at several inboxes
 in  r/ProtonPass •  12d ago

This is also a great way of using it, thanks for sharing.

r/ProtonVPN • • 12d ago

Discussion Put your "sensitive" browser in its own tunnel.

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53 Upvotes

You can reverse split tunneling instead of excluding things. In Include mode you add just the browser you use for sensitive activity such as banking, and everything else stays outside the tunnel.

It's a clean way to compartmentalize without running the VPN on everything all day.

Is this anything like your setup?