Last week I purchased three ringtones from iTunes directly from my iPhone and when I synced up my iPhone to my Mac just now, it removed those ringtones off my phone but now I can't figure out how to get them back on! I can see those ringtones in iTunes on my Mac but when I tell it to sync those ringtones back to my phone they never show up. What am I doing wrong?
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Won't transfer ringtone from iTunes to my iPhone
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Nope, in my ITunes menu it's still check marked to sync ringtones. I've tried doing sync selected ringtones (and it shows those three tones there and they are check marked too) and I've also tried "sync all ringtones" but no matter what I do those new ringtones never show up on my phone.
Yep, I'm looking for them there, but they just aren't showing up anymore. When I had those extra three ring tones on my phone, they showed up in a separate section (I believe that section was titled "purchased from iTunes" or something to that effect) just above the default ring tones.
Ok this may work, and involves deleting the .acc version from your iTunes and adding an .m4r version.
1. Navigate to the ringtone in your iTunes music folder, locate the song, and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It won't delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes).
2. Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and chose "Properties" or "Get info" depending on your OS. Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r
3. After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library under the ringtones section. Sync your phone with iTunes and hopefully maybe you will have some success.
1. Navigate to the ringtone in your iTunes music folder, locate the song, and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It won't delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes).
2. Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and chose "Properties" or "Get info" depending on your OS. Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r
3. After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library under the ringtones section. Sync your phone with iTunes and hopefully maybe you will have some success.
Ah, hello all.
I'm having similar issues- I recently purchased ringtones and although they show up on my iPhone, they only show up in the music section. I've read through this thread and tried everything I've seen here, but nothing seems to work. When I try to update iTunes, it tells me I have the most recent version.
Any suggestions?
I'm having similar issues- I recently purchased ringtones and although they show up on my iPhone, they only show up in the music section. I've read through this thread and tried everything I've seen here, but nothing seems to work. When I try to update iTunes, it tells me I have the most recent version.
Any suggestions?
Ah, hello all.
I'm having similar issues- I recently purchased ringtones and although they show up on my iPhone, they only show up in the music section. I've read through this thread and tried everything I've seen here, but nothing seems to work. When I try to update iTunes, it tells me I have the most recent version.
Any suggestions?
Check the extension. Those "purchased" ringtones may not be in the iPhone .m4r format. Fortunately, there are programs including free ones like Audacity that can convert them to AAC .m4a format, then just rename it to .m4r BUT delete the old files from iTunes first or it might get confused.
Boy, I feel kind of dumb.
I messed with them a bit, and almost downloaded Audacity, but noticed that there was an option on iTunes to convert to AAC, so I did what you said and it worked! Thanks so much!
I've done all suggestions on this thread and I'm still having issues.
I see the ringtones here on this authorized computer. I purchased them a while ago on my iPhone. I believe when I did my first "transfer purchases" onto this machine it was then when they disappeared off my iPhone yet remaining on my machine.
All other purchases and such are fine, I just can't get my ringtones back on my phone.
Can you treat them like apps and redownload them without a cost?
I see the ringtones here on this authorized computer. I purchased them a while ago on my iPhone. I believe when I did my first "transfer purchases" onto this machine it was then when they disappeared off my iPhone yet remaining on my machine.
All other purchases and such are fine, I just can't get my ringtones back on my phone.
Can you treat them like apps and redownload them without a cost?
Thank you
Thank you so much for the comment about reactivating and activating computer it worked to get my all my stuff back on my phone
Thank you so much for the comment about reactivating and activating computer it worked to get my all my stuff back on my phone
Do you have ringtone sync enabled?
If you are manually managing your music, you need to drag the ringtones yourself. Otherwise, enabling the sync option should fix your problem.
I had this issue with iphone 6. De-authorising & re-authorising didn't work. This did:
Add M4R ringtones to ringtone list on iTunes
Connect phone
Click on iTunes
Backup starts and the phone icon should appear on the menu left of upper screen (coloured)
Click on it and a drop down appears
Click on Tones and a new field appears "Do you want to sync Tones" with a choice of All or Selected
Make your choice & click sync bottom right hand corner of iTunes
Disconnect phone
Immediately afterward, all ringtones I made appeared in my Sounds/Ringtones field on iphone, simply selected what I wanted. All transferred except for those notified by iTunes during sync to be too long. Try under 40 seconds & keep reducing until they pass.
Unnecessarily difficult with no intuitive or direct instructions as usual thanks iTunes, oh for the BlackBerry days with simple drag & drop !!!
Hope that helps.
Add M4R ringtones to ringtone list on iTunes
Connect phone
Click on iTunes
Backup starts and the phone icon should appear on the menu left of upper screen (coloured)
Click on it and a drop down appears
Click on Tones and a new field appears "Do you want to sync Tones" with a choice of All or Selected
Make your choice & click sync bottom right hand corner of iTunes
Disconnect phone
Immediately afterward, all ringtones I made appeared in my Sounds/Ringtones field on iphone, simply selected what I wanted. All transferred except for those notified by iTunes during sync to be too long. Try under 40 seconds & keep reducing until they pass.
Unnecessarily difficult with no intuitive or direct instructions as usual thanks iTunes, oh for the BlackBerry days with simple drag & drop !!!
Hope that helps.
I recently updated iTunes not having done so probably in 18 months and the latest iTunes admonishing "iTunes now concentrates on music, video blah-blah...... sync your blah-blah, RING TONES directly blah-blah. Google see how to do that, and only pay attention to hits last 6 months or so.
First, this is a Zombie thread (8 years old). Second, the new iTunes version is not sync friendly for ringtones or anything else. Use the iMazing 2 app instead.