How do I keep iTunes from starting up whenever I connect my iPhone to my Macbook?

I frequently charge my iPhone by pluggiing it into a USB port on my Macbook. ITunes alwasys starts up. Can that be changed?

kmomara wrote:
I don't really want to sync my iphone with my iphoto. Whenever I plug my phone into my computer, iphoto automatically opens and asks if I want to sync. Is there a way to stop this from happening?
Thanks!
The RIGHT way is to copy photos from your phone to iPhoto and delete them from the Camera Roll. If you still want them on the iPhone add them back to the photo album app. The Camera Roll is a bad place to leave photos that are important, and a silly place to leave photos that are not. It is intended as temporary storage, jost like any digital camera.
iPhone will not open if the camera roll is empty.

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