How to Put a Ringtone On an iPhone Through iTunes

Ringtones for iPhone have not lost their relevance, because changing the ringtone brings a little variety to our everyday life. I decided it means the other day to create a new melody for myself and put it on the iPhone’s call, but it turned out that the updated iTunes has small changes in the interface, which made the task a bit more complicated. If you make and install ringtones in outdated versions of iTunes, then read the instructions here. “How to make a free ringtone for iPhone.” Well, we will understand the 12th version of Tuna.

For convenience, the instruction was made of two sections:

The presence of an Apple ID to create your own ringtones in iTunes is not necessary, even if you just bought an iPhone and did not have time to get an ID, you can upload ringtones, like music. If you also decided to make your iPhone ringtone, then you need to download and install iTunes on your computer, if you haven’t already done so, follow these steps:

Before you begin, connect your iPhone to your computer and make sure that iTunes has a checkmark. Process music ands manually.

Create iPhone Ringtone Using iTunes

Having dealt with the installation of Aityuns, we proceed to create a ringtone. In advance, stock up on the very melody (in MP3 format) that you want to hear during an incoming call, you need to take care of this in advance.

If your iTunes library already has an MP3 music file from which you plan to make a ringtone, then step: 1. 2. 3 can be skipped, if iTunes is still empty, then do it with us.

In the open iTunes program, select the section. Music (1). Here, in the left side panel, for convenience, go to the subsection. Songs (2). If your iTunes does not have a panel on the left, then you can enable it as it is written here.

Now, on the computer, we are looking for our MP3 music file, grabbing it with the mouse and dragging it to the music library with songs (3).

Our music file appeared in the iTunes library. Now click on it with the right mouse button and select. Details (4).

In the window that opens, look for. Parameters. We set it, beginning 0:00, end 0:30 and click OK. Thus, the length of our ringtone for iPhone will be 30 seconds. I tried to make a ringtone lasting 3 minutes, iTunes did not miss, I issued the following:

“The ringtone has not been copied to the iPhone because its duration is too long.”

Therefore, 30 seconds is the best option.

We highlight our music track by clicking on the file in iTunes with the mouse, the track is highlighted in blue. Now we are looking for the tab:

• File. Convert. Create AAC Version

I don’t know why Apple hid this function so far, it used to be easier. right-click on the file and convert, now the path for conversion has become a little longer.

After a couple of seconds, we get our 30-second file, with the same name as the original file. Click on this 30-second melody with the right mouse button and select. Show in Windows Explorer (Show in Finder, Mac OS users press).

In the window that opens, we see our file ringtone, but still in the M4A format, rename the M4A extension to the M4R extension. If you are having difficulty renaming the extension or the extension is not displayed, then take a look at the instructions. “Features of renaming M4A to M4R”.

If you are not comfortable creating ringtones in iTunes, you can use the following services and programs:

Then you can use the second part of this manual to synchronize these ringtones to your Apple iPhone.

Put ringtone on iPhone ringtone

The renamed ringtone in the M4R format is our created iPhone ringtone. In fact, the melody for the call is ready, now you need to put it on the iPhone by synchronization.

Using the mouse, grab the finished M4R file, drag it to iTunes and release it directly into the program. Before that, it is advisable to transfer this ringtone to some folder of your own (and pull it out from it into iTunes), since in the future it may come in handy. There is another way to add ringtones to iTunes. more details here.

To make sure that the M4R ringtone was successfully added to iTunes, do the following: at the top of the program, where we had the “Music” section, click and select “Sounds”. If there is no “Sounds” section, then in the same context menu, from the bottom, click “Edit Menu”, check the box “Sounds” and click Finish.

In iTunes 12.7, developers removed the. Edit menu button, so some users cannot turn on the Sounds section. Now the ringtone is added to iTunes by dragging the ringtone in M4r format. You can drag a ringtone. like this.

Once in the Sounds section, we should see our 30 second file. If we see it, and it is there, then the ringtone has been successfully added to iTunes. Sometimes, in spite of the correctly performed actions above, the ringtone does not appear in the Sounds section, as it happened in iTunes under MacOS, it helped to delete the 30-second file from the Song section, which apparently prevented the M4R from loading. But when deleting this file, you need to select the button. Leave File.

If your M4R ringtone doesn’t appear in Sounds, then there may be problems with the original MP3 music file, in which case try other MP3 music files. Or try to make a ringtone not in iTunes, but using other services and links to which we indicated above in the text.

If in iTunes, in the Sounds section, ringtones appeared, then we put them in the iPhone:

1. We take a USB cable, with it we connect the iPhone to the computer. In the top panel of the iTunes program, click on the iPhone icon that appears
2. In the left side panel under the iPhone itself, click the. Sounds section
3. Checkmark. Synchronize sounds.
4. Select: All sounds or Selective sounds.
5. At the bottom of iTunes, click. Apply or Sync

A faster way to synchronize ringtones in iTunes is shown clearly. here, alternative synchronization is not in iTunes here. Ringtones and i-FunBox.

We are waiting for all the synchronization steps to pass, and iTunes will record the ringtone on the iPhone. Then we take the phone, go to Settings. Sounds. Ringtone, and we see our ringtone is the very first in the list.

If you want to turn on the iPhone’s backlight flashes for an incoming call that will accompany your melody, then we’ll read the flash manual.

If you decide to delete ringtones from the iPhone, then we read. here. Well, if you still have questions about ringtones for iPhone or you want the same beautiful ringtone name as in the last picture, then welcome to our “Questions and Answers on Ringtones for iPhone”.