Imported file from Adobe Illustrator has white background on each layer in After Effects

Question

Making an Iphone unlock animation for my school project and I used Adobe Illustrator to make each of the assets. Each of the assets are on separated layers so that it would be easier to animate in After Effects

When I imported the Illustrator files into After Effects, each of the layers don't have transparent background but instead have a white background. Thus the other assets cannot be seen because of the white background blocking them.

When I was importing the Illustrator files I chose Import Kind: Composition and Footage Dimensions: Document Size. My Illustrator files are also PDF compatible. So I don't know what I'm doing wrong when importing the Illustrator file.

I don't know how to describe this problem well, I hope that my photos can explain it more clearly for you

Iphone Camera lockscreen icon layerIphone Screen camera layerIphone body layerIphone lockscreen clock layerIphone notification layerIphone Torch lockscreen icon layer

alyssa_moey · Answer

I figured it out. My AI files are on AI Version 30.1 and when I tried to save them in an older version of AI (AI 29.8.4), the layers from the files in AI 29.8.4 had transparent backgrounds hence each of the layers were not blocked by a white background on each layer
Sorry if my explanation is not good but I managed to work it out

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