The world's largest secure & private email provider. Swiss-based, end-to-end encrypted, and free. Brought to you by the scientists behind
@ProtonPrivacy
.
Stay safe from cyber threats!
Dark Web Monitoring is available to all paying users of
#ProtonMail
.
If you register for an online service that gets hacked or suffers a
#databreach
, Proton will now alert you, so you can take immediate action.
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📣 Introducing the new Proton Mail
#macOS
and
#Windows
apps, including:
🌓 Light & dark mode
📆 Integrated
#ProtonCalendar
🎭 Hide-my-email aliases
🔔 Dedicated app notifications
♻️ Auto-updates for the latest improvements
➕ And more
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Don't be like Bob.
Skip the wait with
#ProtonMail
's 🕐Schedule send feature.
You can also:
🔄Undo send
💣Send self-destructing emails
Learn more: .
What do you use this feature for?
Follow
@_workchronicles
for more comics.
Looking for an alternative to WhatsApp? It may be end-to-end encrypted, but Facebook still abuses your metadata. Read our recommendations for secure messenger apps that are truly private. ➡️
Our improved email tracking protection now hides your real email opening time, in addition to removing trackers and hiding your IP. Remote images are pre-loaded and cached upon email delivery, rendering opening time useless to marketers.
More here:
With the new
@Outlook
for
#Windows
,
@Microsoft
informs its users that they share their data with 772 third parties to:
🔎 Identify them through device scanning
📍 Obtain precise geolocation
📣 Personalize ads & content
👨👩👦 Audience insights
▶️ And more:
It's now easier to protect your online identity with
#ProtonMail
!
🎭 Quickly create hide-my-email aliases or find recently used aliases with the new Security Center in the
#ProtonMail
web app.
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Many emails contain tracking pixels that collect and share your data with the email sender who can then share it with third parties.
🕵️ Proton Mail guards against these sneaky practices -- our Email Tracker Protection is on by default:
New week, new feature!
Cleaning up your inbox just got easier – you can now label, move, delete, or mark as read all emails in a folder (including your main Inbox) at once on the
#ProtonMail
web app.
Have you tried it already?
#inbox0
You can have the most secure email in the world, but if you don’t have good
#cybersecurity
habits, it doesn’t matter.
As
@schneierblog
said, “Security is a process, not a product."
Scroll through the thread for 9 top tips to secure your
#email
.
Send an end-to-end encrypted email to anyone — even those without a
#ProtonMail
account.
Add a password before you hit send and share it with the recipient on a different communication channel.
Learn more here:
Don’t miss emails sent to your old
#Gmail
address. You can now automatically forward messages from Gmail to
#ProtonMail
in just a few clicks.
This will also remove trackers and protect your emails with zero-access
#encryption
.
➡️
Passkey support is now available in
@Proton_Pass
— on all devices, for everyone.
For an overview on
#passkeys
and how they can improve your security, check out:
Thanks to your collective feedback, we're now excluding the 🗑️ Trash and 🔥 Spam email from your ✉️ All Mail folder.
You can, of course, change this back from your Proton Mail web app settings.
Let us know what you think!
🔥 Hot reminder: never, ever share your personal information with an
#AI
chatbot. Yesterday,
#Google
accidentally leaked some of its chats to its search engine.
#AI
is escalating quickly.
#ChatGPT
has grown eyes and ears.
#Meta
released a competitor yesterday. 🧵 (1/2)
New week, new feature!
⏰ Now, you can snooze your emails on the
#ProtonMail
web app and be reminded of them when convenient.
Snooze is one of the most requested community features, and we’re eager to hear what you think!
#Google
just updated their privacy policy, declaring open season on the entire public internet. The policy states almost everything you post online will help build their
#AI
tools. Here's our take on
#privacy
and AI by looking at
#ChatGPT
: .
Outlook's new ad placement above your latest email shows you their business priorities - advertisers first, users second.
And you'll only be seeing more ad placements in your inbox if you continue using
#Outlook
:
#Microsoft
I genuinely clicked this «e-mail message» 3 times without understanding why it opened a random website. Turns out, the place for the latest message of your inbox is taken by an advertisement.
That's so gross!
Over the next 4 days, we'll post a
#cybersecurity
challenge/day. 💪 Do them all to improve your security and be one of the 3 random winners to get a Proton water bottle. 🔒
Challenge
#1
: enable
#2FA
for your email.
Reply with a ✅ once complete. If it's set up, that counts!
🗓️ New week, new feature! Week view is now available in
#ProtonCalendar
for
#iOS
.
Now you can see your week at a glance and plan your time more efficiently by choosing between agenda, day, week, and month views.
➡️ If you haven’t already, download Proton Calendar for iOS here:…
📬 Sick of getting email after email that you didn’t sign up for? Proton Mail can help you stop those unwanted emails easily with our auto-unsubscribe button.
When we detect a message from a mailing list, the unsubscribe button is automatically added ➡️
Standardized, interoperable
#encryption
is key for a better internet.
Proton and the
@IETF
’s OpenPGP Working Group are pleased to announce a crypto refresh of the
#OpenPGP
standard. Standardization today ensures interoperability tomorrow.
More here ➡️ .
Still use Gmail? It’s no secret that your emails aren’t private. 🤷
While your privacy and security are best protected using an encrypted email service like
@ProtonMail
, there are ways to make Gmail safer. It’s still not private, but better than nothing:
With Proton Mail, you’re now protected from tracking links in your emails.
🙅🎯🔗
Similarly to tracking pixels, links in emails can be used to track your behavior with the
#email
.
Learn more:
📎 Attachment previews are now visible in
#ProtonMail
’s message list on the web app.
You can quickly find the document you need and preview it without opening its email.
Check it out and let us know what you think:
Since mid-December, the beta versions of our web apps have a new side panel. This enables you to easily check your calendar and manage contacts.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
If you don’t see it, go to “Settings” and enable Beta access.
After
@ProtonDrive
and
@ProtonVPN
, we are happy to share the Proton Mail roadmap with you.
This covers our mail and calendar services and addresses some of our community's most requested features. Follow the link to see our plans for the next few months:
Do you know ?
In '96, a woman named Gail got this as a birthday gift from her husband. Now, Gail's website is buzzing with traffic due to people misspelling
#gmail
.
Ironically, Gail is a proud
#ProtonMail
user. 💀
Here's why:
Automatic forwarding is now available on all
#ProtonMail
premium plans!
🔐 Messages forwarded to other
#Proton
users are protected with end-to-end encryption.
☑️ Advanced filters forward emails based on sender, subject, and the presence of attachments
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We’ve made some improvements to the Mail and Calendar web interfaces.
You now have:
⏭️ easier access to quick settings
🌌 more space for emails & events
Let us know what you think!
When Proton Mail was launched in 2014, the goal was not just secure communications, but secure digital identity. If you are not signed into Gmail, Google can no longer connect your activity across the entire internet to your real-life identity:
.
Everyone’s been there: you write the perfect cover letter, you brush up your resume, and then you forget to attach the files when you hit send. Not to worry – we’ll remind you even if you forget. 🙃
#PrivacyByDefault
We’re excited to announce major performance and stability improvements to Proton Mail Bridge. It's now faster and easier to use your encrypted
#ProtonMail
inbox with your favorite email client, such as
@Outlook
,
@mozthunderbird
,
#AppleMail
. Learn more: .
Over 50% of the 300 billion emails sent daily are ads.
By the time you delete them, as
@noahkagan
’s genius friend did, the senders have already obtained a lot of your data through tracking pixels.
This is why
#ProtonMail
blocks email trackers for you:…
Starting today, you can get Proton Calendar on your iPhone. 🗓️
Protected by the same end-to-end encryption as
#ProtonMail
,
#ProtonCalendar
has all the features you need to take your schedule with you wherever you go.
Give Proton Calendar a try:
🎉 We have a new feature for you this week on
#ProtonMail
.
Now, you can swipe between messages on the Proton Mail
#iOS
app. Stay focused as you quickly move from one email to the next.
If you haven’t already, download the app here:
Now you can activate automatic deletion for 🔥 spam and 🗑️ trash emails older than 30 days in the
#ProtonMail
web app.
Start saving
#inbox
storage every month with one single click.
Available on all paid Proton Mail plans: .
#spam
#inbox0
Today’s
#cybersecurity
challenge to win a Proton water bottle: set up an email alias with
@SimpleLogin
by Proton. From newsletters to Netflix, easily hide your email address. 🥸
You can start here:
Reply with 🏆 once done, or if you've already set it up.
Organize your incoming emails with a single tap!
In the
#ProtonMail
app for
#iPhone
, you can now:
✅ Mark emails as read,
📂 Archive them
🗑️ Move them to Trash
All from your iPhone lock screen or notification center.
SMS is as convenient as it is universal, allowing you to text anyone, regardless of their device or messaging app. But SMS messages are an open book, easily read by your mobile service provider, your gov't, and hackers. Here is why we don't recommend SMS:
3 reasons why using a private email service like
#ProtonMail
is better than a traditional email service:
🕵️ Stop
#BigTech
from spying on you
🦸
#E2EE
protects you from data breaches
🥷 Avoid spam, phishing, malware
Tag a friend who needs private email.
🎉 Another week, another
#ProtonCalendar
feature – this time for our web app.
Need to reschedule your weekly meeting? No problem! You can now edit event details for a single event occurrence without updating the entire series.
Let us know what you think:
Here's your
#MondayMotivation
to switch to real privacy:
@GoogleChrome
recently launched an "ad privacy feature" that is privacy-washing at its most extreme. You're giving
#Google
permission to share your data with third-party websites, which is the opposite of
#privacy
. 🧵 (1/3)
We love your feedback. 🫶
Join us on
@UserVoice
to propose ideas, vote on feature requests, stay up-to-date with the latest changes, and help guide our development efforts:
🔄 New week, new
#ProtonCalendar
feature!
No need to stress if you can't make your weekly one-on-one meeting – now you can effortlessly cancel a single occurrence without deleting the entire series. 🗓️💻
Try it out and let us know what you think!
🗓️ We have a new feature for you this week on
#ProtonCalendar
for
#iOS
.
You can now create events by long-pressing on an empty slot in your calendar on day and week views.
📱Download the app and let us know what you think:
For
#ProtonMail
and
#ProtonCalendar
, 2023 has been a year of delivering improvements and community-requested features to better serve you in the future.
Here are some of last year’s updates that you've all been excited about: 🧵⬇️
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At Proton, your voice matters.
All of your feedback, wherever you choose to send it, guides our development.
In recent months, we’ve added 38 of the most requested improvements to
#ProtonMail
and
#ProtonCalendar
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In addition to 🔥 self-destructing emails, there are many ways to
#declutter
your
#ProtonMail
#inbox
:
🏷️ Labels & folders
🎭 Aliases w/
@Proton_Pass
🗑️ 30 days auto-delete Trash & Spam
🛑 Block sender
❌ One-click unsubscribe
🕸️ Adjustable filters
Which one is your favorite?
All Proton communications sent to your
#ProtonMail
inbox will now have an "Official" badge instead of being automatically starred ⭐️. This will ensure their authenticity and protect you from phishing attacks impersonating us.
Read our blog to learn more:
Be they pushy marketers or stalkers, you can now block all unwanted senders with Proton Mail! Once blocked, their emails won't reach your inbox, all without their knowledge.
Next time someone is bothering you, give it a try:
🔥 Our
#BlackFriday
deals are here!
Save 33% on yearly subscriptions for
#ProtonMail
Plus, Proton Unlimited, and Proton Family plans:
The offers are available for Proton users on Free, Plus, and Unlimited plans, as well as first-time subscribers.…
3 reasons why you should switch from
#GoogleCalendar
to
#ProtonCalendar
:
🛑 Stop
#Google
from spying on you
🦸 Let
#E2EE
protect your data from breaches
🇨🇭 Be safe w/ strong Swiss privacy laws
Make the switch:
Tag a friend who needs to
#degoogle
too.
👉 Another feature for
#ProtonMail
this week! 👈
Now you can quickly find the file you’re looking for with a single tap. All attachments are now visible in your message list on the Proton Mail
#iOS
app.
If you haven’t already, get the app here:
This week's new
#ProtonMail
feature is here!
You can now view and manage up to 200 conversations at the same time on the Proton Mail web app!
You can find the setting in Settings ➡️ Messages and composing ➡️ Messages ➡️ Conversations per page.
Encrypting your photos is the easiest way to ensure you have control over who sees them.
Learn the different ways to do that on your device or on the cloud, including using
#ProtonDrive
, here: .
👉 New week, new feature for
#ProtonMail
! 👈
Now, you can easily manage multiple emails simultaneously. Label, move, delete or mark them as read with one tap from your Proton Mail
#iOS
app.
If you haven't already, get the app here: .
Thrilled to see
#ProtonCalendar
’s security model captured so perfectly! 👌
Your schedule's details are yours alone - no need for your calendar provider to know.
Discover privacy-first scheduling here:
🗓️ Another feature for you this week – this time for
#ProtonCalendar
on
#iOS
.
Add participants to your events on the Proton Calendar iOS app. They’ll automatically receive an invite to confirm their attendance.
If you haven’t already, download the app here:…
You never want to hear the word “hacker” and your email in the same sentence.
Though hackers exist, you can take steps to protect yourself against their ever-evolving techniques to get into your account.
A thread. 🧵⬇️
New week, new feature on
#ProtonMail
for
#iOS
!
🗓️ You can now see the main calendar event info in all emails containing calendar invites with the new Calendar widget.
👆 Tapping on the widget takes you to the
#ProtonCalendar
app directly from your inbox.
Our improved email tracking protection now hides your real email opening time, in addition to removing trackers and hiding your IP. Remote images are pre-loaded and cached upon email delivery, rendering opening time useless to marketers.
More here:
If you're a daredevil and still use Gmail, even though you know it's not end-to-end encrypted and Google has access to your emails, this one's for you.
Take these easy steps today to make your
#Gmail
account more
#secure
:
Tag a fellow daredevil. 😈
Most encryption is like locking a safe and putting the key right next to it for anyone to unlock. On the other hand, end-to-end encryption – which is what Proton uses – ensures that nobody, not even us, can decrypt your data.
Find out more here:
📣 You can now add events forwarded from Google Calendar and others to your
#ProtonCalendar
.
Confirm your attendance and notify organizers even if you weren’t initially on the event list.
Try it out and let us know what you think!
Your events are encrypted the moment they’re added to
#ProtonCalendar
. With Easy Switch you can import your
#Google
calendar to
#ProtonCalendar
effortlessly. Which means your schedule is for your eyes only with end-to-end encryption. ➡️
Social media platforms are some of the biggest culprits in gathering up every bit of your personal data.
#TikTok
, for instance, is infamous for tracking everything you do in their app. It’s difficult but possible to keep at least some of your data to yourself. 🧵
Keep your loved ones safe with the new Proton Family Plan. Protect up to six family members with their own encrypted email address.
Swipe through the carousel to see what’s included. ➡️
Learn more:
Good news for Proton Mail
#iOS
users - now you can activate automatic deletion for 🔥 spam and 🗑️ trash emails older than 30 days!
Start saving
#inbox
storage every month with one single tap.
Available on all paid
#ProtonMail
plans:
Still use Gmail? It’s no secret that your emails aren’t private. 🤷
While your privacy & security are best protected using an encrypted email service like
@ProtonMail
, there are ways to make
#Gmail
safer. It’s still not private, but better than nothing:
🔎🗓️ Calendar search is now available in the Proton Calendar beta app on the web.
This is made possible by creating and storing a local index of your events on your device, so that Proton cannot see the details of your events.
👉 Try it now:
“Don’t reuse email addresses” is the new “Don’t reuse passwords”. 😎
Get the
#SimpleLogin
browser extension or mobile app and easily generate a unique email address for every sign-up: .
Now you never have to reuse an email address ever again.
If you're a daredevil and still use Gmail, even though you know it's not end-to-end encrypted and Google has access to your emails, this one's for you.
Take these easy steps today to make your
#Gmail
account more
#secure
:
Tag a fellow daredevil. 😈
It’s possible to be identified by your email address unless you take steps to protect your
#privacy
. You can hide your IP address with
@Torproject
or use a
#VPN
like
@ProtonVPN
.
There's more you can do to prevent being identified though. Read here:
📎 Need to find that important document in your inbox quickly? Now you can easily filter emails with attachments in your Proton Mail web inbox. Here’s how it works:
Achieving total anonymity online is difficult – and if you use a service like
#Gmail
, you won’t be able to do it.
You can achieve a high level of privacy when you use services like
#ProtonMail
,
@torproject
, and an email alias service like
@SimpleLogin
.
New week, new feature (that everyone has been eagerly waiting for)! 😀
⏰Now you can snooze your emails on the
#ProtonMail
#iOS
app too, in addition to the web app. Set up a reminder for the email you received in one tap, read and respond to it at a more convenient time.
Check…
Search is now available in the
#ProtonCalendar
web app! 🔎 Easily find an event’s location, details, participants, and more.
If you haven’t already, try it out here: