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In the past, when I connected my mobile, Image Capture launched. I have an Android device.

At some point, I disabled this feature and now I need to set it back.

Unfortunately, I am not able to find how to do it.

I am on El Capitan 10.11.5

I have checked Photos but couldn't see any settings to change the default app.

So, what happens now is that I connect the device, I launch ImageCapture and it doesn't recognise the mobile.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Per this answer, the setting is in Image Capture itself. Note, however, that the option won't show up in the bottom left corner until you actually connect your phone.

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  • Sorry I should clarify. Now Image Capture doesn't recognise the mobile so, as you mention, I can't see this option. – John Kouraklis Jul 14 '16 at 10:54
  • @JohnKouraklis Try opening the Image Capture manually after connecting the device. – Shineeth Hamza Jul 14 '16 at 10:59
  • @ShineethHamza That's what I do. It doesn't recognise the device. I am very annoyed with Apple. They have messed up all their software – John Kouraklis Jul 14 '16 at 11:02
  • @JohnKouraklis Is iTunes detecting your device? else it will be a problem with your cable. – Shineeth Hamza Jul 14 '16 at 11:06
  • @ShineethHamza I have an android device. Should itunes detect it? – John Kouraklis Jul 14 '16 at 16:03
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If you set a system setting to disable all hot-plug events, you might need to remove those settings specifically or generally:

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

or to just clear that key in the preferences 

defaults -currentHost delete com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug

At that point, you should be able to go into Image Capture with the device connected and toggle the settings. I wonder if you have a connection issue if you don't see the device in ImageCapture - it should show up there once you have trusted the computer from the iOS device. I suppose that missing trust could also be the root cause.

To troubleshoot that, iTunes is a better option. Start here and if you can't see the device, there is a follow on article covering the ways to regain connection:

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  • This must be the right approach but after searching my system I don't have such file which means that terminal can't alter the property. I get this error message: 2016-07-14 17:06:32.727 defaults[56553:4582570] Domain (com.apple.ImageCapture) not found. Defaults have not been changed. – John Kouraklis Jul 14 '16 at 16:09
  • @JohnKouraklis that's a good error - deleting something that's not there means you don't have that suppressing the pop up. It's then either lack of trust from iOS or a failure to communicate. – bmike♦ Jul 16 '16 at 3:21

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