How to Change iPhone Ringtone

For iPhone users, you may quite be familiar with the iPhone ringtones no matter which iPhone model you have purchased since the ringtone library is always similar. Moreover, in recent years there are few changes about the iPhone’s default ringtones. For some users who prefer more customized iPhone using experience, they have the tendency to change the ringtone in their own styles. Therefore, for more references, in this blog, there are detailed introductions related to the ways on how to switch your ringtone you want and by the way would provide more information about how to make custom ringtones to specific contacts.

How to Change iPhone Ringtone? 

If you would like to change the default iPhone ringtone and choose another ringtone from the local ringtone library, then follow the simple steps and you can easily change iPhone ringtone among various sound effects.

Step 1: Go to Settings on your iPhone.

Step 2: Locate Sound & Haptics under Settings panel.

Step 3: Under Sounds and Vibrations Patterns, choose your own preferred sound you would like to change. 

Step 4: Finally, tap Done to finish the change steps. 

Similarly, if you want to change the ringtone for iPad or iPod, you can also set the ringtones referring to the above steps. 

How to Purchase Custom Ringtone from iTunes Store?

Just as mentioned above, if the current ringtones are not your preferred styles, then you can try to take a further look at the ringtone library from iTunes Store which may provide more soundtracks for your options. But you have to pay for that. Before it, you had better update your iTunes Store to be the newest version and make sure you can get access to the latest ringtone library. 

Step 1: Open iTunes Store on your iPhone. Log in your Apple ID and password. 

Step 2: Scroll down the bottom and tap More option to enter the Tones panel.

Step 3: Browse your preferred ringtone you like and by the way tap the price option.

Step 4: Further set the ringtone, including choose whether you would like to set it as a default ringtone, text tone or add it to your specific contacts. 

Step 5: Tap Done to finish the purchase and finally confirm and pay for the ringtone.

If you prefer to adopt some of your favorite songs to be the ringtone for your iPhone, then you can move the following parts which would show you how to make custom ringtone in iTunes and GarageBand.

How to Make Custom Ringtone in iTunes?

Therefore, if you prefer to make custom ringtone in iTunes, you had better seek help from iTunes which could be totally free. Here are the detailed instructions on how to make custom ringtone iTunes. 

Step 1: Download iTunes on your computer. Make sure you have downloaded and installed the latest iTunes on your computer. 

Step 2: Get your preferred music files or songs that would be made to custom ringtone. Usually for some beginner users, you had better obtain your song from iTunes directly which would allow you to pay for the subscription in iTunes. In an alternative way, in order to get your favorite song from popular music streaming sites, like Spotify for free, you can record these music tracks with one of the powerful music recorders ---- Leawo Music Recorder. With this music recorder, you can easily record music from Spotify for free. In addition, you have to know that your ringtone file must be a maximum of 40 seconds long. If the song you have chosen is too long, you can also adopt Leawo Music Recorder to edit the file to be the desired length. 

Step 3: Convert the MP3 to AAC. If the music file you have obtained is in the format of AAC, then you can skip this step. If not, you should convert the MP3 to AAC or at least make sure the music file has an .m4r extension. You can simply add the sound file to iTunes and then you can find it in your library. Then select the loaded sound file in iTunes and click File >> Convert >> Create AAC Version. Wait for some seconds, the MP3 would be converted to AAC format.

Step 4: Rename the ringtone file. Once you have converted the MP3 to AAC ringtone format, you can find two song files in your iTunes library. In order to make a difference, you can right click on the sound file and you can see a Kind column which would tell you the exact file format. Then you can give a new name to the AAC audio file. Simply, you only need to drag the converted AAC file to your desktop directly. Then go to the saving route and locate the AAC ringtone file. Next, right click on the AAC file and you can rename and change the file extension to .m4r. 

Step 5: Add the ringtone to your iPhone. In order to transfer the AAC ringtone file to your iPhone. You can complete the transfer via two main methods. The first method is to rely on iTunes which can be your default tool. In iTunes, find the AAC ringtone file under the Library section, then click the Tones section On My Device in the left sidebar. Finally, directly drag the AAC in .m4r extension file to the Tones section in iTunes. Refresh your iPhone immediately, and you can find the file appear in the ringtone list in your iPhone.

Step 6: The second method to transfer the AAC ringtone to your iPhone is to make full use of some third-party iOS transferring programs. Leawo iTransfer could be one of the best choices. This iPhone transfer software enables users to transfer various kinds of files, including apps, music, movies, TV shows, ebooks, ringtones, photos, Camera Roll, contacts, text messages, bookmarks, and notes. With this iPhone data transfer software, you are able to fully handle your iPhone without messing up the data inside. Therefore, in order to transfer the ringtone to your iPhone successfully without iTunes, this tutorial on how to addringtone to your iPhone with Leawo iTransfer would be useful to you. 

How to Make Custom Ringtone in GarageBand?

Instead of making the custom ringtones for your iPhone, you can try to customized your ringtone via GarageBand which is an App from Apple, a professional top-level music production software. With GarageBand, you can create excellent music as well as mixing and recording at the same time. With just a few taps, your masterpiece can be completed, and it has never been easier to create a famous and wonderful melody with this powerful music maker.

Step 1: Download Garageband app on your iPhone and open it. 

Step 2: Choose an instrument to start. Here you can choose any instrument which has less impact on the final effect. Once you choose an instrument, click on the Project icon. 

Step 3: Open your audio recording by tapping on the Loop icon on the screen. Then you can enter the Music section to find your preferred songs to be made to a custom ringtone. 

Step 4: Under the Music section, long-press on the song you would like to add. Then the song would be opened in GarageBand. 

Step 5: Once the song has been imported to GarageBand, the sound track would be showed as the second track by default. Tap on the track and you can edit the track as you like and you can also trim it to be shorter than 40 seconds. 

Step 6: Tap the Downward arrow icon in the top-left corner of the screen to select My Songs. Then the ringtone project would be showed under My Songs section. 

Step 7: Long press My Songs and you can find Share option. Click Share.

Step 8: Next, select Ringtone as the exported style and you can rename the ringtone. And click Export icon. 

Step 9: You can choose to set the ringtone as the standard ringtone or other types you like. Finally click on the Done option and you have successfully make your custom ringtone for your iPhone.

How to Set Ringtone to Specific Contact?

By the way, you can also set or change the ringtone for individual contacts. Here are the additional steps. 

Step 1: Go to Contacts app and locate the specific contact you would like to set the ringtone for.

Step 2: Tap Edit in the upper-right corner for the specific contact’s card.

Step 3: Tap Ringtone to choose your preferred sound for this contact. Finally, tap Done to complete the update. 

Users can easily change the ringtones by following the above steps. But what confused majority of people is that the number or the style of the ringtones on iPhone is quite limited. Sometimes, you can undoubtedly obtain some free ringtones from the library. But it could not still meet people’s requirements. Instead, they would like to set one of their loved songs or sound track as iPhone’s ringtone. If you are falling to this group, then knowing how to purchase custom ringtone from iTunes Store or make custom ringtone would be quite necessary.