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!)
Thank you for this tip, it’s bliss! Are you sure apple aren’t trying to drive us to drink?
Thank you so much!!!
Thanks a bunch. Exactly what I was looking for!!! You’re da man…
Thanks a lot for the tip!!!It was driving me crazy with iphoto opening all the time
On new versions of Image Capture there is no preferences menu.
When you open Image Capture in the bottom left corner – when your iphone is plugged in – It will say Connecting this iPhone o…. then a dropdown box. Select No Application from the drop down box.
Thank You, kept me off the booze, screen has changed a little but all you need is the clue then its easy.
You stopped the madness. Thank you.
Thanks… i noticed that when you open image capture and your iphone/ipod is connected it will appear in the sidebar. When you select your iphone/ipod, go to the lower left side corner… this will allow you to set “no application” just to that device… that way you dont have to choose between always open or always close.
Thanks! Helped a lot.
Thank you Paul….I was going freaking crazy
Bless your cotton socks!
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ughh that was killing me slowly!
Brilliant – I love you
THIS SAVED MY LIFE! Thanks!
Hey mate, you are a star! Great one! Cheers!
Thanks. That was driving me crazy! Perfect!!!
Gangster! Thanks for that fix! Me and my household will appreciate it.
Thank you Man, you saved me alot of time, that was killing me!!!!
Thanks.
This been a problem for years.
Michael
muchas iphoniass x
Hi! Thanks, I’ve had the very same problem for a while.
Although I can’t really find the preferences menu.
Thank you so much for the direction.
F yeaaaaahhhhh…
thank you so much. PHEW!!!
Thank you so much. I was about to kick my own ass for not being able to figure this out. Thank god for you guys.
Thanks! You rock!!
Thanks for taking the time to share this little gem. That has driven me nutz many times!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This has annoyed the crap out of me for almost a year now.
Super helpful tip!
You can do it through the iphoto preferences too, you just open iphoto, go to preferences under the iphoto menu, and the last item in the general tab gives you the option to not open iphoto when you connect your camera (iphone)
Thanks!
Thank you so much!! I was about to go crazy.
Thanks a bunch for the tip… Autostarting applications without making it easy to stop the behavior is maddening. Apple loses just a liiiitle bit of credibility every time it pulls one of these shenanigans!
Best,
Christian Hunter
Austin, Texas
Thank you!
I have “risky” photos on my iPhone, and every time I plugged it in I had to hide my screen if there were people nearby.
Cheers,
Dave
Thank you, it has been driving me nuts having iphoto open everytime I connect my iphone!
Thanks so much!!
Jacqueline from Wales
Thank you so much for this!
@Andres
Quite a few sites offering help on this topic forget to mention that the device should be plugged in to allow a preference to be selected. Good to see help exists out there though! : )
In fact, you CAN stop iPhoto opening with your (un)desired device but still set it to open with your camera.
With the iPhone/iPod Touch or whatever plugged in, open Image Capture. Under the heading Devices, you should see your iPod, below this select the dropdown headed Connecting this iPod opens: and select No Application.
Now, you won’t have iPhoto opening whenever you connect your iPhone, but it WILL open with a digital camera.
Sorted
Finally! Thank you for sharing
how annoying. thanks dude.
With iPhone plugged in, just select no application. But wow! Thank you. That was really annoying : )
Thank you, but too late! I’ve already gone insane
SO AMAZING! Thank you, I hated waiting for that… almost made me not want to plug my iphone in everytime.
Ok…this was really helpful. BUT, now when I manually launch iPhoto my iPhone isn’t there. How do I get it back?
thank you!
Wow, a four year-old post that’s still relevant. Thanks! This “feature” was driving me nuts.
Huge thanks for that. Was wrecking my head!