How to prevent iTunes from opening when iPhone is connected to your Mac

iTunes on the Mac spontaneously starts when you do quite a lot of activity. The app opens without the user’s knowledge when you click on a link in the App Store, accidentally open a media file and, of course, when you connect an iPhone or iPad to your computer. Any of these unwanted discoveries is a distraction, but fortunately there’s a way to completely ban iTunes from running. We will tell about it in this instruction.

Step 1. Download the scriptoverkill. To download, you need to click on the button Clone or download and then pick an item Download ZIP .

Step 2. Run Terminal and go to the downloaded script folder. In the case of the Download folder, you need to command:

Council! To make it easy to use the script, you can place it on your desktop. In this case, you can run the script without initially going to the folder in which it is located.

Step 3. Enter the team in the Terminal:

Ready! ITunes will no longer start on your Mac under any circumstances. The script will be notified in the Terminal window about the iTunes attempt to open spontaneously:

When you still need access to iTunes, it will be enough to close the Terminal window and agree to interrupt the script.