Every user of Mac knows very-well about iPhoto and its applications, iPhoto is a picture management app which is a built-in application on Mac devices. Through this application uses can transfer from your device to other Apple device and other Apple devices to your Mac device. You have to just connect your Apple device to Mac where iPhoto app makes you to launch and will automatically sync to transfer all the Photos and videos on your device to your Mac.
Some times this causes issues here though is that the iPhoto app automatically launches each time you connect your iPhone or a media device to your Mac that has a photos folder on it. In this article lets us discuss about how to stop iPhoto from launching automatically when other device is connect.
How to stop iPhoto from launching automatically when connect device :
- Navigate iPhoto on you Machine and launch the application.
- Click on the iPhoto app followed by the preferences, Where you can change settings under preferences.
- Make sure that you’re in general panel if not click on the general settings. which is on the top.
- Under general option, navigate the options say ” connecting camera opens “, Click on the drop-down menu that follows it and select “No application.” It tells your machine not to launch any app when a media device is connected to your computer.
- The iPhoto app will no longer launch when you connect a device that has photos on it to your Mac. The app now knows you don’t want to use it for each of your media devices.
If you want the application to not launch when a specific iPhone is connected to your Mac, you can set it using the Image Capture app. That way the app won’t launch when you connect a device such as your personal iPhone to your machine. Here’s how you can do that:
Stopping iPhoto from Automatically Launching for a Specific Device :
But make sure that your iPhone is connected to your Mac while doing the following steps
- Navigate the Image launcher and tap on it to open the application.
- Now click on your iPhone in the left panel and then click on the up arrow icon in the bottom left corner it should pull up the menu for you.
- when the menu shows up click on the drop-down menu and select “No application.” It tells your Mac not to launch the app when the selected iPhone is connected and you are all set.
