what is the .AAE extension?

I have done NO edits on my iPhone but did on my iPad. Are you thinking that is the same difference?

If all my Camera related apps are on my iPad and I edit there is no way I can keep my edited versions?

I read the thread but am unclear as to the solution.

I would think that ipad and iphone have the same difference indeed. If you look at Adobe's workflow where the edits from RAW files are stored in a separate file, -as long as you put the original file and the sidecar as it is called - in the same folder, you would not have to re-edit. As I understand it Lightroom and Aperture and who knows what other apps do not possibly keep the sidecar with the original, so that would mean that you have to re-edit...

I am not a hundred percent sure of all this though as I am not a very good explainer...

I think we might need someone who knows more then we do and can explain it better then I can... For now, I will continue to import phone and ipad to computer via Lightroom and start from the thinking path that I can not do edited photographs that way. If I really need an edited version really bad I will send it to myself in an email... I don't usually need the edited version of phone pics that bad...

I wonder if Lightroom mobile might not be a better solution for me personally as I use that already to sync pics between ipad and computer...

The hardest thing seems to be to keep an established workflow going and having that workflow for all the pics on iphones and ipads no matter what application they come from and/or were taken with... I do find it all very confusing as well.

I also discovered accidentally that there is a new photo application in my applications folder in operating system Yosemite, Prophoto or something, and I don't know if this is the new version of iPhoto and Aperture mixed in one. I am wary of using iphoto because it does not work well with Lightroom workflow wise. You are much better to stick to one workflow and one application. Mixing iphoto and lightroom to send pics to and from phones and pads is not a good idea because you end up with endless doubles and it's very hard to figure out which are the originals that you need to keep and which ones are just doubles...

I experienced the same thing and discovered that I had inadvertently changed the camera format setting from "PHOTO" to "SQUARE" and upon returning it to the "PHOTO" setting, I got .jpg's again. Sad that I lost some important photos in the interim, but glad that it was an easy fix (for me anyway).

I found that not only does my camera need to be on the "PHOTO" setting, the filter (three circles on the lower left) needs to be set on NONE.

I just noticed something. I was transferring all of my pictures from iPhone to computer. As I was finishing up I had several of the .aae files left that would not transfer. So, I deleted everything from my phone except those files. It turned out that those were pictures and/or videos that were in my recently deleted folder of my iphone. I recovered them all, unplugged and then re-plugged my phone into my computer and every one of them were back to their original formats and then I was able to transfer them. Hope this helps someone!!

Sorry I posted twice!

Forget about the AAE files for now.

When importing photos from iOS 8 to your Mac:

– Importing them with 'Image Capture' will give you the original photos

– Importing them with 'AirDrop' will give you the edited photos.

So you can have both versions on the Mac should you so desire.

Don't know if anyone else is doing this, but, I was advised from support that the squeakier the wheel, the better the the chance for an oiling. If this is a big deal, like it is for me, please send in feedback via: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I would like to at least have the choice as to which format to store photos and videos in.

Thanks in advance.

I guess you didn't read the thread before posting. The images are still JPG files. The AAE files store editing information about the image. For each JPG there is a matching AAE. If you import the images using the camera and scanner wizard in Windows or iPhoto or image capture on a Mac you will get both.

So glad I looked up what this wacky extension is and found out using the camera wizard with Windows is quicker than figuring out if I did something to the pictures myself or if this was another goofy Apple "hey look what we slipped in that we won't tell you about until lots of people start noticing it" type of things.

Thanks for pointing out the 3 colored circle setting!

IOS8.1.3 photos show up only as AAE files in Windows Explorer UNLESS

the 3 colored circle is set to "NONE" (middle-center choice).

If circles set to "none" then they show up as grey color when taking photos.

With 3 circles grey ("normal") jpg sucessfully showed up in Explorer when I took photos in these formats (tested on 3-1-2015):

1. normal Photo = ok

2. Square = ok

3. Panorama = ok

4. Burst in regular photo = ok

RECOVERY: if all photos are AAE on iPhone, then use Windows Scanner and Camera accessory to import the photos (clunky but it works).

Note: regarding the multi DCIM folders, I only see them on my Windows 7, when I use Windows XP, DCIM looks like it always has! I wonder if there is a way to make Win 7 mimic XP when viewing iPhone photos?

AAE files do not contain images. They are XML files that contain the editing instructions for the raw image. You can tell they are not images because they are much too small.

HHate to change The subject but I got a problem with the volume on my iPhone it seems like it's stuck in headphone mode and I can't hear YouTube videos or things like that does anybody know what that could be

IIt's like the headphones are plugged in but they're not

Please post a new message rather than tagging on to this totally unrelated thread.