Comments on: Kill the iPhone’s Annoying AutoPlay Pop-up

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:27:16 +0000

My problem is that autoplay displays my son’s iphone name (ben10′s iPhone) for mine (Tom’s iPhone). How can I change the name back to my iphone? Also Windows Explorer reads my iphone with my son’s iphone name. Can that be changed also? Can anyone help me?

By: Krodor

Krodor — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:30:54 +0000

got here by way of google search “disable ipod windows insert popup” regardless, thanks for the info…what a hassle it was.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:47:01 +0000

@ Kish: See http://www.question-defense.com/2009/07/23/stop-the-auto-play-pop-up-when-you-plug-in-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch-to-a-windows-xp-computer/ and just reverse the steps.

No matter what the title of this article, I found it useful. And yes, I googled “annoying iphone popup” and this was first in the list. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s a Windows popup…

By: Kish

Kish — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:50:56 +0000

how to get back autoplay pop-up when iphone is connected to usb in windows xp?

By: Lllama

Lllama — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:36:51 +0000

I don’t know whether it was the name or the content but either way I came here after searching for “iPhone pop up”.

I believe that this single tip will save me about 2 hours over the year. Waiting for Imaging to load is the most annoying thing about owning an iPhone.

Thank you for posting this.

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:07:47 +0000

@Gary
Nope, I’m saying it’s shorter than “Kill Window’s Annoying AutoPlay Pop-up That Occurs Every Time You Plug in Your iPhone” which is much longer than either of the two you listed. As this post was meant for offering a solution to an issue that several iPhone users have asked me about it was important that the term iPhone was in the title (and also from an SEO perspective).

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:28:17 +0000

Are you trying to say that the 42 characters in the current title is shorter than if you entitled the article as “Kill Windows Annoying AutoPlay Pop-up” which only has 37 characters? As much as I like the number 42, when I was at school, 37 was always a smaller number. Have some math fundamentals changes while I wasn’t looking?

Regarding the alt tag, you’re correct. I did not. Thanx fr that clarification; I’m sure I’m not the only one who’ll benefit from this clarification.

Cheers.

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:43:39 +0000

@Gary
You’re right, it is Window’s popup. But in order to have a short and concise title I didn’t elaborate on that fact. iTunes itself does have an annoying auto-open feature when you plug in your phone but I also didn’t elaborate on that or how to disable it (I find iTunes auto-launching more annoying, to be honest). As for the Palm Pre comment, you obviously didn’t read the alt tag for the image, did you?

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:50:35 +0000

Point of order, if I may.

This is not the “iPhone’s Annoying Autoplay Pop-up”, but more correctly, it is “Windows Annoying Autoplay Pop-up”. It happens when you insert your USB key, or your camera, and often happens when you insert a new CD. As you correctly point out, you turn it off within Windows, and it has nothing at all to do with the iPhone.

Also, the image you’re displaying actually helps to illustrate my point – it shows the Vista/Windows 7 autoplay dialog …. for a Palm Pre!