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.
Thanks a million! I can't believe I didn't think of that!! After all, it's not that hard to open iPhoto when you want to import from your REAL camara. Thanks again!
Or you could create a smart playlist in iPhoto that collects all of the photos from the iPhone automatically (the rule is camera = iPhone). Then have iTunes synch that playlist back to the iphone.
Thank you so much! This was incredibly helpful, especially since I have an older version of iphoto which doesn't allow me to change the camera preference.
thanks, very helpful! my girlfriend will think I'm a hero again :-) Oh and this windows users you're on your own comment was so funny and yet so true ;-)
Interesting article. What really sucks is owning a PC with an iPhone, then your basically out of luck for a lot of iPhone related stuff. Oh well! The phone still rocks!
Interesting article. What really sucks is owning a PC with an iPhone, then your basically out of luck for a lot of iPhone related stuff. Oh well! The phone still rocks!
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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.