Preview of Illustrator AI Files not showing in Finder on Mac OS Ventura

[Franky Says]

I've seen many threads about Apple no longer supporting EPS previews in Finder and their associated workaround, but I am still not able to get AI files from Illustrator to show a preview in Finder. Does anyone have a workaround for this?

[Monika Gause]

If you have already tried the workaround with editing the system files, then you're done. There is no other workaround. You could complain to Apple. For Windows there is at least a system extension available, but I haven't heard of one for Apple.

[Franky Says · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your response!

So far the workaround worked for EPS files only, but sadly not AI files. I guess complaining to Apple is currently my only option, as a big part of my workday involves working with AI files, and not being able to preview the content (as was possible in the previous macOS) is very frustrating!