Every time I hook up one of our iPhones to our iMac, iPhoto opens. I have to wait a few seconds, quit iPhoto, and switch back to iTunes again. I’m sure it’s a setting on the iMac, but which one?
Back off, iPhoto! We'll call you when we need you!
It’s a setting in iPhoto, actually. Open iPhoto > Preferences, and look under the General tab for a dropdown labeled “Connecting camera opens.” (iPhoto views your iPhone as just another camera.) Set that dropdown to “No application.” Now, when you want to get photos from your iPhone into iPhoto, you’ll have to connect the iPhone to the iMac, launch iPhoto manually, and select the iPhone in iPhoto’s sidebar, under Devices.
Toyce Francis
April 03, 2013 at 1:13pm
This works fine for your own mac, but what about when you plug in your iphone to someone else's mac to charge? How can you prevent your photo gallery from popping up on screen?
mltownsend
August 12, 2010 at 1:57pm
Best way to deal with it if you have multiple devices (and who doesn't) is to use Cameras by Flexbits (http://www.flexibits.com/). From that you can select what action to do for each device. Like for me I don't want iPhoto to open when I put in my iPhone, but I do when I put in a SD card from my Nikon D40X.
