Prevent the Photos app from opening automatically when you connect your iPhone or iPad

With the passage of OS X versions, we have seen how the iPhoto application has given way to Photos, the new photographic management application integrated into the system. With it also a series of news arrived in relation to the interface as well as various improvements such as the possibility of integrating extensions from other third-party applications to edit our photos and which we are talking about in this post.

However, we already know the habit that Apple has lately of simplifying the interface to unsuspected limits, leaving the user little space for administration of the particular application. The same happens with Photos, where certain options have been lost and one of them is the possibility of preventing the application from starting automatically when we connect our iOS devices, be it an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

Before connecting one of the aforementioned devices, iPhoto would automatically start but left us the possibility in the lower left of the window indicate that not rerun automatically With each connection of the device, now however that option does not exist and we will have to tell the system not to run Photos through a command through the Terminal.

To do this we will simply have to go to Applications> Utilities> Terminal and enter the following command:

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES

Once entered, the application will no longer skip automatically. If on the other hand, later we decide that we want to go back to the initial configuration, that is to say, that it is executed with each connection, we will only have to change the value «YES» at the end of the command to «NO», being this way:

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool NO