I don’t know about you, but I know for me it is very annoying when I want to sync my iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch to my Macbook and every time that I do this, iPhoto pops up.

“Gosh, I hate when this happens because if I have no photos that I want to sync with iPhoto, I have no reason to have iPhoto open.  I just wish there was a way that I can disable iPhoto from opening up when I sync my devices. “

Have you ever thought this before?  Well, if you have, the solution to your problem is outlined below.

First, open up iPhoto.  Then click on the “iPhoto” tab, then click on “Preferences”.

When the preferences pane opens up you are going to want to click on the “General” tab.  Then, look for the “Connecting camera opens:”.  Here you are going to want to click on the drop down menu and select “No application.”

And there you have it!  Now, when you go to sync your device, iPhoto will no longer pop up.  Now if you do want to transfer photos from your device to iPhoto, then you can open up iPhoto manually and it will recognize your device that is plugged in and then you can go through the process of uploading your pics.

That is really it.  Really simple, short post.  Just wanted to share this tidbit because this is something that I just recently learned and I am guessing there are others out there with the same problem, so I thought it would be a good, quick idea to share with you all!

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