It took me a bit of digging to find this, so I thought I may as well spread the word here. I’ve started using Adobe Lightroom for managing my photos, but every time I connect my camera or card reader to import photos, iPhoto would launch, and I couldn’t figure out where I could change that. I finally discovered that the setting is in the Image Capture application. Run that, then go to Preferences and you’ll find it there. Why they wouldn’t also put it in iPhoto, Lightroom, or even on a preferences panel is beyond me.
13th May, 2007
Stop iPhoto from Launching when you Connect your Camera
Responses
THANK YOU!!! IT HELPED ME A LOOOOT!!!
Thanks!
By: Misha on July 10th, 2007
at 1:56 pm
thank god for google and for you. that auto launch was driving me mad.
By: lee on July 16th, 2007
at 8:47 pm
That was quick to find this thread and kill the auto iPhoto import! Thank you from me too!!!
By: Cody on August 11th, 2007
at 8:59 pm
OS X thinks the iPhone is a camera and was launching iPhoto every time I synced. Thank you for finding this.
By: Philip on September 18th, 2007
at 7:02 am
OMG thank you soo much I was so sick everytime I plugged my camera in bloody iPhoto popped up :D
By: Joe on October 7th, 2007
at 11:49 am
Thank you so much! I sure wish the people who designed iLife had made this easier, it’s a big nuisance.
By: anonymous on October 20th, 2007
at 6:13 pm
heroic, cheers!
switching to lightroom too, and this was such a pain to find…
By: Anonymous on November 30th, 2007
at 7:32 am
So many thanks !
It almost save my life :-)
By: Jean-Seb on January 8th, 2008
at 11:27 am
Yeah, that problem was annoying and the fix was obscure, here is a video of your fix for anyone who learns by seeing :)
http://www.4tay.com/blogs/Adam_Parker/Tutorial_%231_-_Stop_iPhoto_Auto_Launch/1/1/645/
Thanks for the tip.
By: Adam on February 10th, 2008
at 7:26 pm
Perfect! Thank you for having a quick answer to this issue.
By: Andrew Scriven on March 25th, 2008
at 1:34 pm
OH MY GOD! Thanks!
The iPhone auto-launch thing was so irritating, I thought I was going to have an aneurism. Thanks for digging this one up!
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
By: Greg Lee on May 6th, 2008
at 8:37 pm
Thanks so much for posting this info. Apple should make it easier, especially with the iPhone.
By: John on October 17th, 2008
at 9:52 pm
