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p/overkill-for-macStop iTunes from opening when you connect your phone
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Jack Dweck

Overkill for Mac - Stop iTunes from opening when you connect your phone

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Overkill is a simple, elegant Mac app, that runs in the background and makes sure iTunes never interrupts your work.

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Niklaus Gerber
Why not just: From the iTunes menu at the top go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices>Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically. Check the box at the bottom of that window. or Terminal: defaults write com.apple.iTunes StoreActivationMode -integer 1
jeremy carson
@niklausgerber doesn’t itunes still launch when you plug in?
Niklaus Gerber
@thejeremycarson Not with the terminal command.
Felix Krause
Maker
@niklausgerber Hey Niklaus, regarding the setting you mention, this is the first thing mentioned in the announcement post linked - there can be many reasons on why iTunes would launch itself, here are some examples: - You click the play/pause key while listening to a web-based music player (e.g. SoundCloud, YouTube) - Someone sent you a link to an iOS app - You click on a link on the web, and didn’t expect it to be a Music link - You updated iTunes - You launch iTunes by clicking on the icon by mistake - You open a video/music file in Finder, and forgot to change the default app to VLC - You connect Bluetooth headphones
Niklaus Gerber
@krausefx Okay this I missed. Then it makes also a lot more sense. Keep it up.
Jack Dweck
Hunter
Exactly one year after launching Overkill as a shell script, @krausefx and @danielsinger are re-launching it as a native Mac app. 🙌
Daniel Singer
Maker
@krausefx @jackdweck thanks for hunting it Jack! Was fun to work on this and iTunes is a thing of the past now!
G G
iTunes preferences works. Now something that removes Photos from opening with any device at all with using terminal.
Daniel Singer
Maker
@androidlove overkill can kill any app, all the time :)
Christoph Schepan
Great stuff. Installed it right away! :)
Sebastian Orozco

The people who made this are heroes.

Pros:

This is what I've been searching for! An application that prevents iTunes popping up automatically.

Cons:

Nothing

Jessica Rutland

After the seventieth time that a meeting screenshare transitioned into my awkward explanation for why I as a grown adult without children had purchased so many Pixar movies and Sandra Bullock rom-coms, my computer was in danger of incidental "snapping-in-half" as a result of "WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F***, ITUNES?-related rage". After a useless encounter with support, and an even less useful attempt to sort through their knowledge base, I was dangerously close to trying my tech-inept hand at terminal commands that were sure to solve the problem, probably by ensuring that my machine would never run any applications ever.

Instead, found this app and in less than 3 minutes, problem solved, peace restored, and embarrassing iTunes library forever hidden from work meetings. Creators are angels and heroes.

JAH BLESS.

Pros:

Does exactly what it says, and you don't have to mess around with terminal commands or wonky workarounds.

Cons:

None

Rupert Jacobsen
Genius
Thomas Schoffelen
Props on the name!