How to send ringtones to iphone

[DarthDon]

Does anybody know, how add personal ringtones with sonoma into iphones? If important, my Iphone has 17.1 on it. Thanks ;-)

 

[fisherking]

i do this in quicktime. trim an audio file so that it's under 30 seconds; export as audio, then change the extension from .mp4 to .m4r. then i plug my phone into my mac, connect the iphone & drag the m4r file into ‘tones’ in the sync window.

something like that. (am away from my mac for a few days...). if any one has a correction, please post!

 

[DarthDon]

i do this in quicktime. trim an audio file so that it's under 30 seconds; export as audio, then change the extension from .mp4 to .m4r. then i plug my phone into my mac, connect the iphone & drag the m4r file into ‘tones’ in the sync window.

something like that. (am away from my mac for a few days...). if any one has a correction, please post!

Finally... I used the wrong folder before... Thank you, fisherking.

 

[donawalt]

Here's how I do it. I love real songs as my ring tones, my current is "September", from Earth Wind & Fire (think the party screen at the end of "Night at the Museum"). So here are my steps, all free, no software to buy/acquire, all native to the Mac:

• From Youtube, find the song you like in a rendition/quality you like. Use a downloader to download the MP4 from that page. (I use the Parallels tool downloader to get the MP4, anything will work)
• Create iMovie project - add the MP4 media. Under File/Share/File, save "audio only" as MP3
• Import MP3 into Apple Music
• For the file in “Recently added”, go to Info/Options - make it up to 40 seconds long - pick the right part of the song for a ring tone (listen to it)
• Change the title etc. as desired
• When happy with the clip, File/Convert/Create Apple Lossless version
• Go to Finder location, copy file to desktop, and change the m4a extension to m4r
• Go back to the original song, to Get Info/Options, and uncheck the start/stop that created a 40 second version if you want to keep it in your Apple Music Library
• Connect iPhone to MacBook Pro. Make sure the Finder window is on the General tab.
• Drag the .m4r file to the pane under the General tab in Finder, for the phone - wait until a very fast progress bar completes at the bottom of the pane

That’s it! Go to Settings/Sounds & Haptics/Ringtone, (Settings/Sounds/Ringtone on iPad)and you will see the new ringtone there!

 

[MrScratchHook]

or you can do what i do, i email myself the songs and download them to my phone..

 

[DarthDon]

It actually was only the prob to add ring tones to the phone. But thanks for the posts folks ;-).

 

[rickpdx]

Here's how I do it. I love real songs as my ring tones, my current is "September", from Earth Wind & Fire (think the party screen at the end of "Night at the Museum"). So here are my steps, all free, no software to buy/acquire, all native to the Mac:

• From Youtube, find the song you like in a rendition/quality you like. Use a downloader to download the MP4 from that page. (I use the Parallels tool downloader to get the MP4, anything will work)
• Create iMovie project - add the MP4 media. Under File/Share/File, save "audio only" as MP3
• Import MP3 into Apple Music
• For the file in “Recently added”, go to Info/Options - make it up to 40 seconds long - pick the right part of the song for a ring tone (listen to it)
• Change the title etc. as desired
• When happy with the clip, File/Convert/Create Apple Lossless version
• Go to Finder location, copy file to desktop, and change the m4a extension to m4r
• Go back to the original song, to Get Info/Options, and uncheck the start/stop that created a 40 second version if you want to keep it in your Apple Music Library
• Connect iPhone to MacBook Pro. Make sure the Finder window is on the General tab.
• Drag the .m4r file to the pane under the General tab in Finder, for the phone - wait until a very fast progress bar completes at the bottom of the pane

That’s it! Go to Settings/Sounds & Haptics/Ringtone, (Settings/Sounds/Ringtone on iPad)and you will see the new ringtone there!

I follow these steps until the next to last one on the list. I don't see a General tab in the Finder and I don't see the iPhone. This is after I connect my iPhone 15 Pro Max to my 2023 iMac running Sonoma. No phone in the Finder. Could you help further? Thanks

 

[donawalt]

@rickpdx if you haven't connected your iPhone to your Mac before you may be missing something in how to connect it. I assume you are on Sonoma for your MacOS? Some steps you may need to do:
1) Connect the iPhone by a USB-C to USB-C cable (for Lightning to USB-C depending on your iPhone model)
2) Bring up Finder on Mac. You should have "Locations" section visible in the sidebar. If not, turn it on in Finder settings.
3) Make sure your phone is Unlocked to get things going.
4) Your Mac will also ask "Allow access to this device?" for connection to happen
5) Click on the phone in Location in the sidebar. You probably have yo agree to "Trust: on the Mac, and "Trust" on the iPhone - and there you may need to enter your passcode.
Once that is all done, by clocking on the phone in Finder sidebar's Locations, you'll see General:

The key is get through all the security access/trust stuff, or the phone won't show up. Also must have a cable to connect. Once you do,

If you still have trouble, post images of what's happening

 

[August West]

What great timing in bumping this thread👍

Last Friday I was bored and decided I needed some new ringtones on my phone so I went through the Music app on my mini and picked a bunch of songs to be converted to ringtones. Then I realized I didn't know how to sync them with my phone since there is not a straight forward way that I knew of without iTunes. The above method works great and is quick & easy. Thanks.