Custom text tone iPhone? how?

[Pro_the_legend]

Yeah, but for best usability 30s is the goal.
Also I hope other viewers can see this and able to make decision themselves.

It really depends on the audio file you're trying to use. Some sound fine within 20 seconds, some sound fine with 40. Really can't generalize.

+1 on others making the decision themselves. Another pro tip - if you're trying to use an audio file on a mac, you can use QuickTime to trim and export it.

 

[scouser75]

A bit of a bump... I just wiped my phone yesterday and reinstalled everything. Now I cant drag and drop my m4r ringtone into iTunes. I also tried the copy and paste method some said works, but this doesn't work for me either.

I know I can use iTunes to trim music and convert the file formats, but one of the tones is not available as a song on iTunes and really do want this as a ring tone.

Is there any other method I can use to move these m4r's to the ring tones list?

 

[ucfgrad93]

Years ago I created a ring tone from the introductory music to Star Wars. Still use it. Get lots of stares when my phone rings in public.

I have used The Imperial March as my ring tone for several years. I get stares as well, but I never think my phone is ringing and it turns out to be someone else’s.

 

[Jackbequickly]

Since my Apple Watch, my iPhone remains pretty well silent.

 

[allan53]

I created a m4r to use as an alert when I get a message. I did it by changing the 2 second clip to an AAC, finding the file and changing the suffix to m4r,
I opened music on my mac, plugged in the iPhone 13 with iOS 17, and the chose move to device. The file does not get moved to my iPhone.

Why?

 

[NoBoMac]

Hmmm... I'm using iCloud Match for my Music, so that might be of some influence for me, but if I drag and drop a ringtone to Music with the iPhone selected in the sidebar, the ringtone automatically gets imported to the phone. Doesn't show in the Music window when done but does appear under Sounds on the phone.

 

[allan53]

OK - My message tone shows up in in ringtones folder with iMazing. I bought a alert tone (Minions)for $1.29 as a test, and selected it to be the default text tone. It did show up there. I then switched to an Apple stock tone. When I did that I could not see the one I purchased anymore. It was not in the stock tone list nor the purchased list.

How can I select it?

 

[NoBoMac]

Just upgraded to iOS 17 and can see my custom tones (none purchased) under Ringtone, but none of them show up under Text Tone, but is still using the one I had under iOS 16 (just sent myself a text to make sure).

ADD: bug also reported in 17.0 RC thread.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Hmmm... I'm using iCloud Match for my Music, so that might be of some influence for me, but if I drag and drop a ringtone to Music with the iPhone selected in the sidebar, the ringtone automatically gets imported to the phone. Doesn't show in the Music window when done but does appear under Sounds on the phone.

Does it work my messages.app only or do you also get the custom sound instead of this ear piercing DING that defaults for apps such as instagram, telegram, etc ?

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Or, you could have used iMazing and done it with drag-and-drop. Ringtone management is a free function.

Customize iPhone Ringtones and Notification Sounds. For free! | iMazing

Express yourself with custom iPhone ringtones. Have fun personalizing your alert sounds. Ringtone management is 100% free in iMazing.

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thank you

I just did that, but it only shows up in ringnotes, but doesnt show up in notifications/sms sounds

are you able to set your own notification sounds ?

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Might be a bug. Another thread with similar symptoms.

Just upgraded to iOS 17 and can see my custom tones (none purchased) under Ringtone, but none of them show up under Text Tone, but is still using the one I had under iOS 16 (just sent myself a text to make sure).

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/notifications-tones.2403089/

ADD: bug also reported in 17.0 RC thread.

damn, just got that

I should have done it while I was still on ios 16....now there's no way to do it

and I feel like this isnt something apple will care much about, let alone provide an update with a fix for it

 

[allan53]

I hoped an update would solve that. It seems, however, that Apple is again not making it easy to step outside their domain.

 

[NoBoMac]

Does it work my messages.app

Yes. All my custom tones are still doing their thing, just can't change anything to use the customs I've downloaded.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

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Yes. All my custom tones are still doing their thing, just can't change anything to use the customs I've downloaded.

thank you. hopefully apple will fix it, but i doubt it

 

[Wayward]

My purchased tones are not showing up in text tones. They are there in ringtones, though

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

My purchased tones are not showing up in text tones. They are there in ringtones, though

Ah If that's the case for purchased stuff maybe they will fix it after all

 

[Jumpie]

It can be set for any Action.......... Once used it is in the List as Ring Tone available for any Action.

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I like Klingeltöne better than Ringtone. I'll start using this instead. 👍🏻

 

[Jumpie]

thank you

I just did that, but it only shows up in ringnotes, but doesnt show up in notifications/sms sounds

are you able to set your own notification sounds ?

It's an issue with iOS 17. Apple changed the file from m4r to caf. Support knows. There's another thread on this. They need to update iOS but who knows when.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

It's an issue with iOS 17. Apple changed the file from m4r to caf. Support knows. There's another thread on this. They need to update iOS but who knows when.

thank you !

I tried with a .caf file and it doesnt work either sadly ..

 

[Banglazed]

Seems to be fixed in the next beta but new tones are removed

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-17-1-beta-1-bug-fixes-changes-and-improvements.2405113/post-32568315