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Rob Ainscough
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October 5, 2026
Question

PS on iOS unable to open Sony RAW files?

  • October 5, 2026
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I connected my Sony CFExpress card reader to my iPad M5 Pro USB-C port and bring up the Files app and copy the Sony images (RAW .AWF) files to my iPad local folder that Photoshop created “Default User”.

I open PS for iOS and select Import, locate the file and select it for import and then I get the following error message:

“Could not open “A7601008” because the file-format module cannot parse the file” ??

I see thunbnails for the file so I know something is able to read the file, but apparently not PS?

So to make sure there is not issue with my Sony CFExpress reader and/or files that I copied over to my iPAD M5 Pro, I open Affinity Photo 2 and did an import from there and the files imported just fine, no issues.  So this is clearly an Adobe problem for PS on iOS. 

Is there a solution?

Seems odd that my much older software “Affinity Photo 2” can work with my Sony RAW files but PS for iOS can’t ?  Even more strange that on my Windows 11 PC Adobe PS works just fine with my Sony RAW files it’s ONLY on iOS where PS fails.

Rob.