Privateness-focused e mail supplier Proton has introduced an entire overhaul of its Mail and Calendar apps.

The Swiss firm’s service, whose USP is end-to-end encryption of person emails, has fallen behind the likes of Gmail and Apple Mail lately, each of which tout extra superior options.

Proton now hopes to reverse its fortune by enhancing the present person expertise of its suite and providing related components to its opponents.

Proton Mail updates

In a recreation of catch-up, Proton has launched some pretty substantial updates to its app – most notably e mail scheduling. 

This has turn out to be a extra in-demand characteristic for the reason that surge in hybrid working and versatile hours has blurred the boundaries between work and residential life, permitting staff to ship mail at occasions applicable for his or her colleagues to learn. 

Additionally added is e mail snoozing, designed to permit staff to arrange their very own focus occasions, and categorization, which the corporate hopes will have the ability to routinely filter out emails like social media notifications.

Behind-the-scenes work has additionally been rolled out to stop spy trackers and enhance integration with the remainder of Proton’s merchandise.

Relating to the Calendar, customers can look forward to finding a to-do record for job administration and simpler sharing to assist alert colleagues of availability. 

The person expertise appears to have been a excessive precedence this time round, too, with enhancements set to return to homescreen widgets, in-app climate data, native holidays, and contacts’ birthdays.

The corporate hasn’t specified when these updates will turn out to be obtainable, however has as an alternative shared them as a piece in progress. Count on rollouts to start in 2023.

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