Hi Stephen, How to Stop Photos App Launching Automatically in OS X Connect the iPhone, camera, SD card, etc to the Mac and let Photos app launch itself as usual Under the “Import” tab of Photos app, look in the upper left corner to find the device name, this will indicate which hardware will no longer automatically activate Photos app Click the checkbox so that “Open Photos for this device” is no longer selected (likewise, toggling this on would enable Photos app to open itself again automatically when this device is connected) Quit out of Photos app, the change is immediate for that device – this can be switched back at any time in the same OS X Photos app screen
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 27 Aug 2019, at 10:51 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Neil. > How do you set photos to NOT auto open please? > It annoys me too, but I cannot find in preferences. > >> On 27 Aug 2019, at 1:05 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> If you want to avoid similar problems in the future you should be able to >> set photos to NOT open automatically when you plug in something that would >> otherwise trigger it (card/camera/phone/ipad). >> >> I remember I did this back when I used to plug my iphone into my iMac to >> sync music etc but preferred to use image capture rather than the Photos app >> to manage my photos. It used to annoy me that Photos would open every time I >> plugged the phone in – so I found the setting to switch it off. >> >> Of course, you might prefer photos to open automatically - in which case I >> guess you have to remember to unplug when you have finished ;o) >> >> We all have our own ways of how we like to do these things – but I just >> thought I’d mention it. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >> From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Juliet >> Kitson <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at 06:31 >> To: WAMUG <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Odd things >> >> Thanks Tim, >> Problem solved I had an SD card with photos on removed left until today no >> more automatic photos popping up. >> regards Bill >> >>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:04 PM Tim Law <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Do you have a USB or SD card connected that contains photos? >>> >>> Photos may sense there are images on the card/USB and is opening to let you >>> you know there’s something you might like to import. >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> Sent from Tim's iPhone >>> >>> >>>> On 25 Aug 2019, at 7:56 pm, Juliet Kitson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> My spelling mistake I meant it has opened photos. While I was sitting >>>> here ten minutes ago doing nothing photos just opened itself, with no >>>> keyboard stokes. >>>> regards Bill >>>> >>>>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 7:05 PM Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi Juliet. >>>>> >>>>> I don’t know what you mean by “not has opened up photos” ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 25 Aug 2019, at 8:55 am, Juliet Kitson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>> For some reason every now and again when I leave my mac turned on and >>>>>> return say in 10 mins. not has opened up photos, the same happens If I >>>>>> shut down, can anyone give me some advice. >>>>>> Regards Bill >>>>>> Imac 21.5 late 2013 >>>>>> Mojave 10.14.6 >>>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Stephen Chape >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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