If you want to take control of this behavior, and you’d prefer to stick with Apple’s built-in tools (rather than take advantage of the free and easy Cameras prefpane<\/a>) there is good news: there’s a simple way to disable this ‘feature’ and it doesn’t involve command line stuff<\/a>. Even better, it isn’t an “all or nothing” <\/a>solution – eg: you can still have iPhoto automatically open when you connect your camera, but not have it open when you connect your iPhone. Aron mentioned this approach a few months ago<\/a> but I thought it would be helpful to walk through it in detail.<\/p>\n It should be noted that this solution only works on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard<\/strong>. If you are running 10.5 or earlier, you’ll have to use one of the solutions noted above; we recommend the free Cameras preference pane as a quick fix.<\/p>\n You’ll see the image above is of iPhoto’s preferences. You may think the option of disabling iPhone auto-open is in there, but it’s not. To stop the iPhone from opening iPhoto you actually need to launch the Image Capture application.<\/p>\n Step 1:<\/strong> Launch Image Capture (Applications>Image Capture). If your iPhone isn’t plugged in already, plug it in to the USB port on your Mac. It should then show up in the devices source list.<\/p>\n Step 2: <\/strong>Make sure you have the iPhone selected in the source list. When you do, you should see any photos you have on the iPhone appear in the right-hand column of the Image Capture application.<\/p>\n Step 3:<\/strong> At the bottom of the source list, you’ll see your iPhone’s name then, below that, you’ll see the words “Connecting this iPhone opens:” and a drop-down menu. Select “No application”. Now close the Image Capture app and you’re done. No more iPhone opening up iPhoto, but your other cameras will still auto-launch iPhoto when they are connected!<\/p>\n TUAW<\/a>Mac 101: Stop the iPhone from opening iPhoto<\/a> originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a> on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read<\/a> | Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/66832_iphoto-no-1262208714.png\")
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\nI love iPhoto. I use it for most of my photo editing. The thing I don’t like about iPhoto is how it opens each and every time I connect my iPhone to my Mac. What strikes my as plain silly is that, since the introduction of the iPhone two and a half years ago, Apple has not built in an option in the iTunes iPhone status window to disable the automatic iPhoto launch every time you plug in your iPhone.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/66832_1.png\")
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