Tell Your iPhone to Stop Opening iPhoto!
Every time I plugged in my iPhone, it had this nasty habit of opening iPhoto for me. Not because it wanted to drive me to drink, but because iPhoto is set to open any time a digital camera is connected to my computer – which, technically, an iPhone is.
To stop this behavior, you won’t find any preference in iTunes or iPhoto, where you would normally think to look. This little gem can be found in a separate application in your Applications folder called Image Capture.
Open Image Capture and go to the Preferences menu (under the Image Capture menu item). Under the General tab, change the option for “When a camera is connected…” to “No Application” instead of “iPhoto”.
This means you’ll have to manually start iPhoto when you connect your digital camera, but you won’t have to CLOSE iPhoto every time you plug in your iPhone (which, for me, is a heck of a lot more often than plugging in a camera!)
On Snow Leopard with iPhoto ‘09, you can do this by setting the preference in iPhoto under the General tag -> Connecting Camera Opens -> No Application
Thanks! This had been bugging me for a while. Much appreciated.
Thank You Thank You! man that annoyed me.. I guess I used google rather than preferences to check it out..duh
Thanks for the helpful tip been bugging me for ages now
I thank you. My computer thanks you. Sweet baby Jesus thanks you.
This has been annoying me for waaaaay too long.
Brilliant!! I never would have figured that out in a ga-gillion years. Thank you!!
Thanks so much for posting this.
On my own computer I have Aperture loaded and I think the setting is in there. But on my wife’s computer it kept popping open iPhoto when the phone is plugged in to tether, and thats quite a bit.
Not any more. Funny how some simple things can feel sooo good to get fixed.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!