How to Make Ringtones for iPhone

In this article, wikiHow will show you how to buy ringtones for iPhone from the iTunes Store or create your own. After you buy or upload a ringtone, you can add it to your iPhone.

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Open the iTunes Store on your iPhone. The app has a purple background icon with a white musical note surrounded by a circle. You can find the app on the Home screen.

If you can’t find the iTunes Store app, open Settings , scroll down and select Sounds (or Sounds & Haptics on iPhone 7), select Ringtone > Store in upper right corner of the screen.

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Click the More button (See more). This button is located in the lower right corner of the screen.

If you access the iTunes Store through Settings , skip this step.
Using an iPhone 5S (or earlier), you can skip this step.

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Tap Tones . This option is located at the top of the “More” page.

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Find the ringtone you want to buy. You can scroll down to see the “Featured” page, or go to the Search tab at the bottom of the screen and type the name of an artist, song, or movie to find it.

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Tap the price to the right of the ringtone. If you’re looking for a specific category, tap the Ringtones tab at the top of the page.

If you haven’t already set up a payment method with Apple Pay, set it up before continuing.

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Click BUY TONE . This button is located in the same place as the price button.

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Enter your Apple account password. You can scan your fingerprint if your phone uses Touch ID.

If you entered your password in the iTunes Store about half an hour ago, you won’t see this option.

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Click Done to proceed with downloading the ringtone. It will appear at the bottom of the “New Tone” menu. If you want to assign this ringtone to a specific person or function, you can choose one of the following:

Set as Default Ringtone – Set the selected ringtone as the default ringtone for incoming and FaceTime calls.
Set as Default Text Tone – Set the selected ringtone as incoming message alert.
Assign to a Contact – Opens the contact list for you to select the contact you want to assign a ringtone to.

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Wait for the ringtone to download to your device. Once the download is complete, the ringtone will appear in the “Ringtone” list.

Self-made on iTunes

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Open iTunes. The app has a white icon with a multicolored musical note in front of it. If you don’t have iTunes installed on your computer, download and install it before continuing.

If there is an iTunes update pop-up, click Download Update and wait for iTunes to update. You need to restart your computer after updating iTunes.

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Open your favorite song on iTunes. You can click and drag any .mp3-file into the iTunes window.

If iTunes is your computer’s default music player, just double-click the song.
If the song is already in the library, just redirect there.

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Double click on the song to open the music. You need to record the following:

Ringtone start time.
The end time of the ringtone. The maximum length of an iPhone ringtone is 30 seconds.

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Right click on the song. You will see a drop-down menu.

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Click Get Info . This option is in the middle of the menu.

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Click the Options tab. You can find this tab at the top of the “Get Info” window.

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Click the dialog boxes next to “Start” and “Stop”. This is an action that allows you to customize the start and end time of the ringtone.

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Enter the start time in the “Start” dialog box. This is the time to start cutting the ringtone.

You enter the timestamp in the following format:minutes:seconds:percentages of seconds. If the time stamp is 1 minute 30 seconds, enter “01:30.0”.

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Enter the end time in the “Stop” dialog box. This dialog is located directly below the “Start” dialog.

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Click OK . This button is near the bottom of the “Get Info” window. The ringtone has been cut, now you just need to convert it to a ringtone format supported by iPhone.

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Click to select a song. You’ll see the song highlighted in blue.

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Click File . You can find it in the upper-left corner of the screen (Mac) or the upper-left corner of the iTunes window (PC).

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Hover over Convert . You will see a pop-up window with various options.

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Click on Create AAC Version . You will hear a confirmation sound, the second version of the selected song will appear directly below the original. ^{[1] X Research Source}

Note that the length of the AAC version is equal to the length of the cut ringtone, not the length of the original song.

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Right click or use 2 fingers to click on the AAC file. Don’t forget to double check the song length before you work, because you want to choose the shorter of the two songs of the same name on this list.

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Click Show in Finder (Show in Finder) (Mac) or Show in Windows Explorer (Show in Windows Explorer) (PC). This opens an AAC copy of the song in a separate window.

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Change the AAC file extension from .m4a to .m4r . The process on Mac and Windows will be different:

Mac – First click to select file, click again to rename. Select the “.m4a” part of the file name, then type “.m4r” instead. Press the ⏎ Return key, then click Use .m4r when prompted.
PC – Make sure your computer is set up to display the extension. Right click on the AAC file, select Rename , change “.m4a” to “.m4r”. Press ↵ Enter , click OK when prompted.

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Delete the AAC file on iTunes. Don’t forget to click Keep File when prompted, if you select Move to Trash (or Move to Recycle Bin ) it will also delete the ringtone file.

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Double click on the ringtone file in Finder or Explorer. The ringtone will open in iTunes and be added to your iTunes library as a tune.

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Click Music . This option is in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window, just above the “Library” column.

Click Tones in the drop-down menu. You will see the ringtone here. If you double click and listen to the music, the music is ready to be downloaded to your iPhone.

You may be asked to locate the ringtone file on your computer. In this case, click and drag the file to iTunes.

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Self-made on iTunes

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