Tones Not Showing in iTunes? Here are Solutions! [2024]

Why is the tones not showing in iTunes?

iTunes, a digital media playback app and free app for Mac and PC, is released on January 10, 2001. It can be used to manage and backup iPhone data, like music, photos, etc. In iTunes 12.7 for Mac and PC, Apple not only removed the Tones feature but also removed “Apps” feature and focus on music, movies, TV shows, products, and audiobooks.

That is to say, iTunes changes its regime, and then you can’t see Tones and Apps in iTunes 12.7 Library and its later versions, which can’t be fixed. Apple recommends you use Sounds Settings to redownload the tones without your PC.

Of course, if your iTunes is 12.6 or earlier version but Tones is not showing, you can go to “Preferences” > “General” and check whether the “Tones” box is checked. If not, check it and you can see the Tones tab in iTunes Library.

Now, you have figured out why Tones not showing in iTunes. We can fix it if the iTunes is 12.6 or earlier version and then we can sync iTunes playlist to iPhone or iPad. But how can we send tones to iPhone/iPad when iTunes is 12.7 or later version and we have tones in old iTunes library?

Don’t worry, it’s easy to transfer tones/ringtones to iPhone or iPad even without iTunes! You can use email to send the ringtone wirelessly, or choose AOMEI FoneBackup mentioned in third part to finish the process at a super-fast speed.

Wireless way to solve the iTunes tones not showing issue

Step 1. Locate the tones/ringtones on your computer and choose the ones that you want to transfer and right-click them.

Step 2. Choose “Send to” and choose to send an email to yourself.

After you receive the email on your iPhone, you can download and save the acceded tones/ringtones.

Best free alternative to transfer tones and other data without iTunes?

When you can't find your tones in iTunes, how can you do to easily sync multiple audio files from PC to iPhone or vice versa? Here we recommend a handy iPhone data transfer tool - AOMEI FoneBackup for you to finish the process right now!

🌟Highlights:
 Super-fast transfer speed allows you to transfer 1000 + songs in minutes.
 Compared with iTunes' illogical interface, AOMEI FoneBackup's easy-to-use interface helps you easily finish all iPhone data sync tasks.
 Various audio file types can be recognized, including mp3, m4a, m4b, m4p, m4r, aif, aiff, flac, wav, aac, etc.
 You can easily preview and select which items need to be moved from PC to iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch and vice versa.
 Wide compatibility supports various iOS devices and versions even the latest ones.

Now you can download AOMEI FoneBackup on your Windows PC and learn from the detailed steps below to get how to finish the transfer process.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer with a USB cable. Tap Trust on the iPhone to continue.

Step 2. Install and run AOMEI FoneBackup, click Phone Transfer > Go to PC to iPhone and tap on Get Started (If you need to transfer iPhone music to PC, you can also choose the iPhone to PC option to finish the process).

Step 3. Click the Music icon > Drag and drop the files you need to the box.

Step 4. Confirm the files you need and click Start Transfer to begin the task.

Tips:
 Once the process is finished, you can directly find the ringtones on your iPhone music app.
 To avoid iPhone data loss, you can also use AOMEI FoneBackup to backup iPhone 16 to PC (Go to Phone Backup > Choose Full Backup or Selective Backup to back up iPhone data as you like.)

Wrap things up

When you get the issue Tones not showing in iTunes, the first thing is to check the version of the iTunes is 12.7 and later versions or previous versions. For Tones not appearing in iTunes earlier versions, you can try the aforementioned solutions to fix it. For iTunes version 12.7 and larder versions, there is nothing to do to make Tones tab shows up in iTunes and you can send tones/ringtones from computer to your iPhone using Email or AOMEI FoneBackup.