When looking through your photos folder, you may have come across some with the file extension of AAE.
On an Apple gadget, the photo could be named something such as IMG_12345.AAE.
On a Windows machine, the file extensions may not show by default.
Therefore, the image file name may simply be IMG_12345 with a blank icon preview.
This can be confusing to Windows users.
An .AAE file is simply the edits that have been made to an existing photo on an Apple gadget.
In older versions of iOS, any edits made to a photo would automatically overwrite the original photograph.
With the creation of an AAE file, this is no longer the case.
So what do you DO with these files?
Doing this will seal the edits to the picture.
As I mentioned, as of now these files are completely useless on a Windows or Android devices.
Options to use them may become available soon, but we cannot predict when.
you might delete these files safely if you choose.
Each of these files are tiny and take up virtually no drive space.
Do you think making these types of files is a step forward or backward for Apple?
This could potentially save some space and some confusion.
