How To Set Up Mp3 Ringtone On Iphone

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The iPhone has been around for a long fourth dimension, and yet at that place'south still no piece of cake way to add your own custom ringtones—only it is possible. If you don't want to buy ringtones or use the ones that came with your iPhone, you can create your own with iTunes.

This process changed a bit with iTunes 12.vii. The "Tones" library you could previously sync with your iPhone has been removed, just you can even so manually identify ringtone files on your telephone. Any ringtones you had stored in iTunes are at present located at C:UsersNAMEMusiciTunesiTunes MediaTones on a PC or ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Tones/ on a Mac.

Update: We had some issues with the version of iTunes downloaded from the Microsoft Shop, but the version available for download on the Apple website worked perfectly. If yous meet bug, try installing the version downloaded from Apple.

Step I: Go iTunes

You almost never have to use iTunes with a modernistic iPhone, but adding your own custom ringtones nevertheless requires it.

On a Windows PC, you'll need to install the latest version of iTunes from Apple. On a Mac, iTunes is already installed and ready to get. This process will work on either a Mac or Windows PC.

Update: Apple no longer offers iTunes for macOS Catalina. Here's how to get custom ringtones onto your iPhone on the latest version of macOS. The instructions in this commodity nonetheless work if you're using iTunes on Windows or if yous have an older version of macOS that still has iTunes.

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Step 2: Choose a Sound File

Of grade, you'll need a audio clip you want to convert and use as a ringtone for this. You lot probably already take some idea of what you want to use. if not, get ahead and notice something yous like. You can use admittedly whatsoever sound file yous detect.

Your ringtone file must be a maximum of 40 seconds long. iTunes will pass up to copy ringtones longer than 40 seconds to your telephone.

If the file is long and yous just want to utilise one part of it, you can cut it downwards to just the part you want using an audio editor. You tin can employ any audio editor you like. We similar the free and open up-source Brazenness sound editor for sound editing, just it's more circuitous than necessary for simple things similar this—so we really recommend a simple online tool like mp3cut.net. To use this website, click the "Open file" button and browse to the MP3 or other blazon of audio file you desire to edit. It tin can also extract the sound from video files if you upload those.

Click "Open."

Select the office of the audio file you want to use and click the "Save" button.

Select the portion of the audio file you want, then click "Save."

Download the edited clip to your PC by clicking "Save" again. This is the file you'll need to import into iTunes.

Click "Save."

Pace Three: Convert the MP3 to AAC

There'south a good chance your sound file is in MP3 format. Yous'll need to convert it to AAC format to utilize it as a ringtone. (If your sound file is already in AAC format or has a .m4r extension, you can skip this part.)

First, add the sound file to iTunes and locate it in your library. You tin can practice this past dragging and dropping the file directly into the iTunes library. Look under Library > Songs for the file after.

Drag your audio file into itunes.

Select the sound file in iTunes and click File > Catechumen > Create AAC Version.

Navigate to File > Convert > Create AAC Version.

Stride Four: Rename Your AAC File

You'll end up with 2 copies of the same song file in your iTunes library: The original MP3 version and the new AAC version.

To keep track of which is which, correct-click the headings in the library and enable the "Kind" column.

Enable the "Kind" column, which lets you sort files by file type.

You'll run into a new "Kind" column telling you lot which file is which. The "MPEG audio file" is the original MP3, while the "AAC audio file" is your new AAC file. You lot tin right-click the MPEG audio file version (that'south the MP3) and remove information technology from your library if you like.

Both AAC and MPEG versions are present.

You now have your ringtone file as an AAC file. Nevertheless, you need to change its file extension so iTunes will recognize it as a ringtone file.

First, drag and drop the AAC file from the iTunes library to your Desktop or any other folder on your system.

Drag the AAC version of the file to your desktop, or any other folder you want.

You'll get the ringtone file as an AAC file with the .m4a file extension. If you don't come across an extension subsequently the file name, you'll need to enable file extensions. Right-click the file, click "rename" or striking the rename push, and alter the file extension to .m4r. For example, if the file is named Song.m4a, change it to Song.m4r.

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Change the file extension to .m4r.

Step 5: Add the Ringtone File to Your Phone

Finally, connect your iPhone to your PC or Mac with its included USB-to-Lightning cable—that'south the same cable you lot use to charge your iPhone.

Unlock your iPhone and tap the "Trust" option on its screen to confirm you want to trust your computer if y'all haven't previously connected your phone to iTunes on that PC or Mac. You'll be prompted to enter your Pivot.

Tap "Trust" and then enter your device PIN.

In iTunes, click the device icon that appears to the left of "Library" on the navigation bar.

Click the "Tones" section under On My Device in the left sidebar.

Go to the tones folder.

Drag and drop the .m4r ringtone file from its folder to the Tones section in iTunes.

Update: If drag and driblet doesn't work, use re-create and paste instead. Select the ringtone file in File Explorer and printing Ctrl+C, or right-click it and select re-create. Side by side, click inside the Tones list inside iTunes and press Ctrl+V to paste information technology.

Update: This role seems to break with the Microsoft Shop version of iTunes. If yous can't drag and drop or copy and paste the file into iTunes, try downloading and installing iTunes from Apple's website instead. Curlicue well-nigh halfway down Apple's folio until you see "Looking for other versions?" and and then click "Windows." Click "Download" in one case the option appears.

Drag and drop (or copy and paste) the ringtone you made into the tones folder.

iTunes volition sync the ringtone to your phone and information technology will immediately announced under Tones here.

The new ringtone should sync immediately.

Step Vi: Cull the Ringtone

You tin can now grab your iPhone and caput to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Ringtone, and choose your custom ringtone. Whatever custom ringtones you've added will appear at the top of the list hither.

Go to "Sound and Haptics," then tap "Ringtone" and select the file you added.

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You can also assign that ringtone to a specific contact, so y'all know who's calling just by the sound.

To remove ringtones, reconnect your phone to iTunes and head back to the On My Device > Tones section. Correct-click a tone and select "Delete from Library" to remove information technology from your device.

If you want to remove the ringtone, right click and click "Delete from Library."

If you're not short on space, there isn't any real need to delete the ringtones y'all add together. You can have equally many every bit you'd like!