ProtonMail iOS App Integrates Touch ID for Unlocking Encrypted Messages

[MacRumors]

Swiss-made encrypted email app ProtonMail received a significant update yesterday, bringing Touch ID integration and other security enhancements to iOS users.

Logging into the app previously required users to remember their login and mailbox password to access their inbox, but as of version 1.2.3 they can turn on the Touch ID feature to unlock encrypted email with their finger on opening the app.

An optional second layer of security has also been included, requiring users to enter a PIN code instead of or as well as their fingerprint. A new automatic lock function also lets users set ProtonMail to auto-lock every time they come out of the app, or after a set amount of time.

Elsewhere, ProtonMail users can now add attachments from iCloud and other third-party storage apps directly to their messages, while an option to automatically show images in messages and password manager support for iOS have also been introduced. Paid ProtonMail Plus account holders additionally get mobile signature editing, with a number of bug fixes and smaller improvements also among the updates.

ProtonMail was launched in March by Swiss software developer and civil liberties outfit Proton Technologies. The service made waves in the security community as the first free end-to-end encrypted email service built on the back of a half a million dollar crowdfunding campaign.

ProtonMail invisibly integrates PGP encryption into a modern user interface and operates on the service's "zero access" policy, meaning all messages are stored in encrypted format so that not even ProtonMail has access to their contents.

ProtonMail is a free download for iPad and iPhone. [Direct Link]

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[Gymgenius]

Great update. I use ProtonMail and their mobile app is pretty good. More so now.

 

[KALLT]

Unfortunate that they now append a mobile signature. I am still waiting for a way to pay with IAP.

 

[vooke]

Unfortunate that they now append a mobile signature. I am still waiting for a way to pay with IAP.

The signature is optional

 

[KALLT]

The signature is optional

This updates adds a mobile signature (so in addition to the regular signature). It will state ’Sent from ProtonMail Mobile’. You cannot disable this, unless you are a subscriber.

 

[vooke]

This updates adds a mobile signature (so in addition to the regular signature). It will state ’Sent from ProtonMail Mobile’. You cannot disable this, unless you are a subscriber.

I deleted it. You can manually delete the signature so it is not exactly permanent. In any case, your email bears 'protonmail' so the recipient will know you used proton mail

Or what other reason would you harbor for removing the mobile signature, tidiness?

 

[2457282]

Given the recent court decision that allow the authorities (oxymoron if you ask me) to require the use of fingerprints, it makes sense to have a secondary PIN that they cannot require you to divulge.

 

[DoNoHarm]

This is awesome!

 

[pacorob]

This updates adds a mobile signature (so in addition to the regular signature). It will state ’Sent from ProtonMail Mobile’. You cannot disable this, unless you are a subscriber.

That's indeed annoying but I understand they want you to upgrade because of this and other things.
I also couldn't find a quick way to connect by current e-mail accounts to the app or send out an e-mail from such an e-mail account in the Protonmail app.

I also noticed that it lacks quite a few features (long/short swipe, save as PDF, save to cloudstorage without Sharesheet) which Airmail and Spark do have. I do like it that it shows the attachments above the message itself.
See also my comparison here. I will try to add ProtonMail features soon.