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Setting iPhone ringtones with iTunes is genuinely simple and effective, contrary to what many people might say. Indeed, iTunes is a versatile software that can help you accomplish various tasks, but it has long been perceived as challenging to use. Let's explore with Mytour how to set iPhone ringtones with iTunes and discover its true simplicity.
This article not only guides you on setting iPhone ringtones with iTunes but also shows you how to create iPhone ringtones with iTunes using any song. After creating the ringtone, we can then proceed to set it as your iPhone ringtone through iTunes.
Guidance on setting iPhone ringtones using iTunes
- Download iTunes to your computer before setting iPhone ringtones using iTunes if your computer does not have this software yet, download iTunes here.
1. Create ringtones for iPhone
Step 1: After completing the download and installation of iTunes, open the software right away and click on Songs.
Step 2: Here, you simply need to drag and drop the entire song from any folder into iTunes if it doesn't automatically scan your music.
Step 3: Click on the song you want to create an iPhone ringtone for, then select Song Info.
Step 4: In the Info section, choose Options, here, check start and stop. Set the time interval between these lines to 30 seconds, and you can adjust it to any position, not necessarily at the beginning of the song.
Step 5: After that, go to File >select Convert > then choose Create ACC Version.
Step 6: Now on iTunes, another song file identical to the old one but only 30 seconds will appear. Click on that file and choose Show in Windows Explorer.
Step 7: In the next step, we'll be taken to the folder containing the selected file. Click on the file and press F2 to rename it.
Step 8: Here, you change the extension from m4a as shown in the image above and switch it to m4r, then confirm Yes.
So, we have completed the process of creating a ringtone. Now, let's start setting up the ringtone for iPhone using iTunes.
2. Set iPhone ringtone with iTunes
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to iTunes by plugging in the cable, then click on the iPhone icon in iTunes.
Step 2: Here, just go to the Tones section on iPhone, drag and drop the newly created ringtone file, and click Sync.
Wait for the Sync process to finish, then disconnect the connecting cable from the computer and iPhone.
Step 3: Open your iPhone, select Settings > then go to Sound.
Step 4: In the Sound section, you will see the Ringtone part, press on it to change the currently used ringtone.
Step 5: Here, you will see the ringtone you just set for iPhone using iTunes, press to use it.
So, we have completed the process of setting up the ringtone for iPhone using iTunes, extremely simple and effective with iTunes. As Mytour mentioned, this is not the only way to set up a ringtone for iPhone using iTunes as well as create ringtones.
For example, consider the method of creating and setting iPhone ringtones using 3uTools, one of the handy tools that helps you solve many issues that iTunes cannot. And creating, setting iPhone ringtones with 3uTools is much simpler than what you've seen above.
