While greatly beneficial, this underappreciated app can also stop working or pose certain problems. Finding an Image Capture Error? Here’s What To Do
These four uses demonstrate how this native Mac app can get things done in its own simple yet effective ways. If you want Image Capture, for instance, to automatically open whenever you plug in your phone, choose Image Capture from the menu options. You may also match external devices with new default apps from this menu.
If you select a device and, from the Applications pop-up menu, choose AutoImporter, any time you insert that device, its images will be automatically imported into an AutoImport folder within your user folder’s Pictures folder. Hidden in the depths of your Mac’s System folder is an app called AutoImporter (the path to it is /System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Image Capture). In the sheet that appears navigate to the app you’d like to open when you connect the selected device.
Now select a connected device and, from that pop-up menu, choose Other. Just click on the small triangle at the bottom-left of the Image Capture window to expose the Application pop-up menu. If you’d like a different app to launch-Adobe Lightroom, for example-you can make that happen in Image Capture.
Normally, when you plug your camera or iOS device into your Mac, iPhoto launches. Yes, Image Capture can capture images from your scanner.