How to add ringtones to iPhone or change iPhone ringtones to your favorite songs? Read this post to learn how to put or set custom ringtones on your iPhone easily.
Adding ringtones to iPhone may be difficult for some people. Although iPhone comes with some default ringtones for users, it can’t meet the needs or preferences of people. Especially, most people would like to set their favorite music song as ringtone on iPhones because it will make iPhone special and charming.
So how to put custom ringtone in iPhone? Keep reading on this tutorial, we will show you the instructions to add or set ringtones on iPhone, even for the latest iPhone 16/15 (Plus) / Pro (Max).
iTunes can be a good way to add ringtones to an iPhone. It can help you to customize ringtones and add music to iPhone. Here are the details you can follow.
1. Download the latest iTunes to your computer and launch it.
2. Select the song you want to set as a ringtone. (Remember that the song will last 30 seconds at most.)
3. Right-click the song and choose to Get Info to set the start and stop times on the song.
4. Right-click the same song and select Create AAC Version.
5. Right-click the song segment and choose Show in Windows Explorer. Then change the extension from “.m4a” to “.m4r.”.
6. Copy the file & delete the old one.
1. Click Music at the bottom of the iTunes menu bar and select Ringtone. In the ringtone interface, copy the .m4r file from local to Music.
2. Now connect your iPhone to computer via the USB cable.
3. Click the device icon and choose Summary. Check the option Manually manage music and videos. Click Apply to confirm.
4. Choose Tones > Sync Tones to your iPhone.
Sometimes the song which you want to set as a ringtone stored on iPhone, you can set the song as ringtone on iPhone directly. The GarageBand can help you convert songs in your Music Library to iPhone ringtones. Download GarageBand free from the App Store and check the one-by-one steps to see how to set a ringtone from files on iPhone.
1. Open GarageBand on iPhone > Click “+” in the top right corner > Tap TRACKS > Scroll down to choose AUDIO RECORDER interface.
2. Click “+” in the top right corner > Choose Section A in Song Sections > Turn off Automatic option > Tap the arrow to change the number to 12 > Tap Done.
If this value is more than 12, then it will trim your ringtone automatically. So please make sure it is up to 12 max, or it should be lesser than that.
3. Click the View button > Choose Loop Browser button at the top right-hand corner > Tap Music to choose the song you want to convert.
4. Tap and hold the song to add it to GarageBand > Use the trimming and split editing features to edit the 30-second ringtone.
5. Tap the downward-pointing triangular > Tap My Songs to save the audio you just created.
6. Long press the song > Tap Share > Choose Ringtone > Rename the ringtone > Tap Use sound as… > Choose from Standard Ringtone, Standard Text Tone, Assign to contact based on your choices. (Standard Ringtone is preferred.)
Can you add ringtones to an iPhone without iTunes? The answer is Yes! The professional ringtone transfer software - AOMEI FoneBackup will be the easiest way to add free ringtones to iPhone!
Now go for it now and discover more about how to set any songs as ringtone on iPhone!
Step 1. Launch AOMEI FoneBackup on Windows PC > Connect your iPhone to the computer > Go to Phone Transfer > Choose PC to iPhone and click Get Started.
Step 2. Click the Ringtones option > Drag and drop the files you need to the box.
Step 3. Confirm the ringtones you need > Click Start Transfer to begin the task.
After you have put the newly created ringtones on your iPhone with iTunes, GarageBand or AOMEI FoneBackup, you can now change your iPhone ringtone by setting a custom one in Settings. Go to Settings on your iPhone > Sounds & Haptics > Ringtone > Select the ringtone you just added to your iPhone.
Now you have learned about how to add ringtones to iPhone. To put ringtones on iPhone directly, you can use GarageBand to set a song as a ringtone. Or if you have stored songs on computer, you can add ringtones to iPhone with iTunes or AOMEI FoneBackup.