I have my iPhone set up to automatically sync, which is a good thing.
However, every time I plug my iPhone into the sync/charging dock, iPhoto starts up and asks me if I want to import my photos.
This only happens if you’ve got pictures on the iPhone. And while I often take pictures, it’s more to have fun pics on my phone. I generally don’t want to import them into iPhoto, or do anything else with them for that matter.
Therefore, it’s seriously annoying to have iPhoto launch automatically.
I discovered today that while I cannot configure my system specifically so that the iPhone doesn’t trigger iPhoto to launch, I can configure it so that iPhoto doesn’t launch automatically when ANY camera device is plugged in.
There’s an app in OS X called ‘Image Capture’ that controls this behavior. Simply open up Image Capture > Preferences and set the “When a camera is connected option” to “No Application”.
Now this will affect all cameras, but that’s fine by me. I don’t mind opening up iPhoto when I actually want to import pictures.
And of course this applies to OS X. Windows users, you’re on your own, but you’ve got so many other annoyances that … oh never mind.
