It is pathetic that even AFTER you have purchased a tune from iTunes you have to pay again to make it a ring tone for the iPhone. Is there another way to get ringtones for an iPhone. The ones that come with it are lame. PiscesAngel54

I have read of others having same problem of missing tones after restore or upgrade. Fwiw - I always save backups of everything on my iphone to my PC using iTunes and only use iCloud as my secondary backup. Using iTunes allows selection of each category including "tones". Even though the tones were restored, I found that each contact was reset back to default. I had to go back to each contact, select "edit" and then select "ringtone" which brought up the listing of available tones and all my custom tones were at the top of the list.

if you purchased ringtones or downloaded free ring tones from the iTunes Store and they are missing, you should be able to go to the iTunes Store on your iPhone, select "more" then select "purchases" and re-download them, they may only be listed under the music category. Although I also have heard some people are missing ring tones from their purchases. In this case, you will need to email or call apple customer service.

if all this fails, your can use iTunes or any other music editor to make your own ring tones. Basically you save a copy of the song in m4a format, edit the start and stop times to be 30 sec max play time and save the clip as an .m4r file. You can google the procedure, it's fairly easy. In iTunes, save the clip with a new title then go to the actual file location on the hard drive and simply change the file extension to m4r, then add the file to iTunes and it will show up under "tones", repeat as desired then you can sync the tones.

without iTunes, you need to use an app to make ring tones on your iPhone - Apple has not yet provided this functionality.

Ringtones that exceed 0:30 (30 seconds) that are in your library will not sync with your device. If these ringtones that won't sync are over 30 seconds you will have to find new ones that are less then 30 seconds.

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Go here and download this App.

www.iringer.net

you can use ANY song and create your ring tones here then sync the new ring tones using itunes FOR FREE!!!

I don't know if there is a free way of doing this, I think it will cost around $1 for each ringtone. If you open itunes then select help, then select itunes help...under the search tab type in custom ringtone and it will give you all of the information you need to create a custom ringtone from the song that you like.

I hope this helps

Best way to add ringtones is to goto www.audiko.net . It has a "google like " search bar on it.You type the ring tone you want and save it as "iphone" ringtone. Once saved open up your itunes and the toen wil be in the ringtones section of itunes for you to sync to your phone and select it . Fast and very easy and best of all free to do i have hundreds of ringtones on my iphone from this method . :)

you can not use mp3 songs that are on your iphone you have to convert then?

For Mac users, this is surprisingly simple using Garage Band (part of the iLife product line).
Simply take your source audio material (no more than 30 seconds in length), and plunk it into a new project in Garage Band.
Then, go to "Share" > "Send Ringtone to iTunes"
When this is complete, simply connect your iPhone, go into iTunes and from the "Ringtones" tab under your device enable the new ringtone.
Do a sync.
Finally, go into iPhone settings and choose your new ringtone from the sounds menu.

WHEN YOUR IPHONE IS CONNECTED TO YOUR MAC/PC UNDER DEVICES YOU WILL SEE YOUR PHONE THEN GOT TO RINGTONE TAB AND SELECT SYNC LL RINGTONES REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN ONL DOWNLOAD PURCHASED RINGTONES TO YOUR IPHONE.
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