Photos or iPhoto is a photo software app for your Apple Macintosh (Mac OS X) and it has one annoying option.

Every time when you connect your iPhone/iPad to your Mac or insert a SD-Card, the Photo app opens automatically. Then you probably hate it just as much as I do, it’s time to learn how to stop this problem.

Copy and paste the following command in Terminal and press Enter to prevent Photos from opening automatically:

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

Congrats! Apple Photos should stay closed from now. Pretty easy or isn’t it!?

If you would like to re-enable the auto launching function in the future, no problem. Simply open up Terminal again and enter the following single command:

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

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