[Feature] Private/protected images or albums #2451
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I would welcome this. As a bonus, it could be password protected or it has a hidden way to open. I noticed some phone galleries has that ability like swipe from specific part of edge to open this "secret stash" or vault. There is no need to enter the password, just know where tap / swipe to open it. I would love to see described feature above in phone app. I'm not sure if it would be possible on web UI as swipes on the web are not standard. Maybe using a keyboard shortcut (or keystroke pattern like in GTA San Andreas when we were typing the codes for cheats; or arrowkey pattern) to open the vault? |
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In terms of Maschine Learning there could also be a suggestion of potentially private photos. |
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I think this would be a good feature. These pictures should then be excluded from not only the timeline, but also the map view, face detection, and excluded in shared albums (maybe the last one should be a separate option) |
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I feel this would be a good feature to have too. Right now, "Archive" kind of fulfill the function, but not the form. And hopefully something better than Apple "Hidden Photos" album comes up... since that is not very private at all! |
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Bump for this I was thinking about this feature as special album that wouldn't be accessible from album tab like other albums but rather with special hidden button / mouse gesture. Or maybe swiping from side or corner? |
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I do not think it would be necessary to have a special section for these images a la |
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+1 this is crucial for a photos backup solution, even if its leveraging the already implemented albums function to create a nsfw album as a master "block all from timeline" group. Then to open the album just use fingerprint or screen lock in the app, pin/immich password as a fallback and for web. |
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this is one of the most important reason for me to choose self-hosted solution |
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+1. This feature is the only reason I haven't completely switched from google photos. |
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If this is implemented, I feel like there should be a big disclaimer every time a user opens the protected folder that their files are not secure from the server admin, since encryption is a no-go for all the good reasons mentioned here: #450 |
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Folks, if you don't have anything substantial to add please just upvote the original post rather than leaving a "+1" comment. |
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An additional UseCase is the following: Me and my partner are on a trip with friends. We create a "Trip yyyy" Album and add all images there. Now we want to share this album to our friends with shared link. This works perfectly right now. |
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I think that using clip's Embeddings that are created anyway would be a much more accurate and resource efficient idea |
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I wanted to say, for me personally it would be very important to still be able to share albums with private images, e.g. for sending a link to my partner, or importantly - to friends without accounts. PhotoPrism currently only has an "all or nothing" option which kind of sucks, ether no acc users can't see private photos, or they show up everywhere. My personal ideal scenario is that I tag images as private and they don't show up when I browse the timeline if I e.g. wanna find a photo in public. However, I can still add them to albums (from a private tab or something) and share them with people without accounts if I so wish. |
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Having now tried a billion self hosted image galleries (most notable after immich being LibrePhotos, which is great, but doesn't implement share links for albums), I can comfortably say that my ideal feature set is the following:
Hidden and private photos would be two separate things that typically stack: Hiding a photo would exclude it "from not only the timeline, but also the map view and (maybe?) face detection". They are potentially saucy and should simply not show up on the client when I browse my photos with my friends at a bar, but otherwise accessible and shareable. Very similar to archived photos. Access wise you just go go to the sidebar -> hidden to view them. In an ideal world, I could also click to "show hidden" on the timeline - that way, pictures of a party gone wild can make a good and cohesive timeline of private and public photos together. Not necessary thought, can always just make an album for said party. Private photos, on the other hand, are additionally hidden in shared albums. Immich has user functionality, so it wouldn't be hard for me to imagine a likely later feature that allows you to share private photos with registered users only via name/email. That way, if you send them an album with privated pics they can actually see them, but if they share the link to anyone else you're safe. When you private a photo, it might be sensible to automatically set it to hidden. Uses: Stacking wise, the aforementioned document which has my social security number would likely be private, hidden, and archived all three. I don't want someone peeking over my shoulder, or over my internet. I don't want to see it cluttering my timeline ether, nor to accidentally share it. Personal pictures I don't intend to share (e.g. those shared to me) would likely be private and hidden, but not archived. I guess also, a paranoid user can spin up immich and exclusively set their photos to private by default, but not hidden - having a fully functional timeline but basically guaranteeing that they can't accidentally share something, unless the explicitly publicize it, potentially with a registered trusted user. (A lot of gallery apps work this way, actually, private images by default but you need to e.g. generate a sharelink) |
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Edit: Hidden Photos are much less likely to be implemented. Some talk on Discord about everything: https://discord.com/channels/979116623879368755/994044917355663450/1214412287746777098 So based on reading this thread, I wanted to suggest my take. 2 new levels would likely be enough to fit most peoples needs, including many niche cases. For the purpose of this comment I will call one level "Locked" and the other "Hidden" and my example metadata flags I pulled out of my arse so if someone who uses Digikam knows of metadata values that match these then please comment and I'll change what I listed since it would be useful if they matched existing metadata. Also, the level of visibility should be customizable. I'll get to that in the subpoints.
So all of that is my optimal future scenario. I also have some ideas about album handling with this:
Then the simple implement today solution that would be better than nothing is just making a locked album system with authentication and the photos are visible nowhere but in the locked album. @Gremious had similar points to me but I actually came up with a lot of this before I saw that comment but still credit. |
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I was just going to open a request for this and after reading some of the ideas here that would far surpass any of the alternative solutions options. I'm really enjoying immich and would love to see this implemented. |
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@AngelaDMerkel @NicholasFlamy @Gremious My proposal, please copy the text in your response and improve where relevant: Archive is a state similar to deleted, but not trashed._ This seems to me to be a clean and relatively easy-to-implement solution that should cover more than 95% of the use cases. What do you think? Johan |
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Just adding an upvote as I'm looking forward to seeing this feature added. As always, amazing app! Love that we just got "Jump-to-date from memory view on the mobile app" as I had been really wanting to see that personally as well. |
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The feature
The discussion at #1638 mentions this, but was closed with the addition of archival functionality.
I think that as a separate feature to archival, it would be good to be able to mark individual images and/or albums as private/protected. These images would not show up in the timeline and would require entering the account password or a fingerprint scan to view them.
The rationale behind this feature request is that many people have photos which are NSFW or contain private information and would not want these photos to be viewed accidentally when showing timeline photos to others. This is distinct from archived images, which are hidden from the timeline but are easy enough to view.
In the UI, private/protected images could be accessed from the library tab alongside favourites and archived images. If it were also possible to mark albums in this way, they could be shown with other albums but without a thumbnail image.
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