iPhone ringtone is different from other phone’s ringtone format. On other mobile phones, you can play mp3 song as your ringtone, but that feature is not available on iPhone. iPhone only recognize a 30 seconds or less music file with “.m4r” extension as it’s ringtone. Surely most of us won’t get satisfied with what was preloaded from iPhone’s factory. We want something different. We want our own music to show our personality, and something to show off to our friends. So for that, why not creating your own iPhone ringtone?
With these simple steps, we’ll show you how to create your own iPhone ringtone.
- First, from your iTunes library, select the song that you wanted to use as your iPhone ringtone. Play the song, note down a start and stop time as you need to cut the length of the song to 30 seconds or less.
- Next, right click on the song, and click on “Get Info”. Under “Options” tab, check on start time and stop time box, and set it as what you have noted down earlier. Click “OK” button.
- Highlight the song again. Click on the “Advanced” menu and select “Create AAC Version”. Now you can see a new file of the song with a shorter track time. Listen to the new file to see if the time range has been set correctly.
- Right click on the original song, and click on “Get Info”. Under “Options” tab, uncheck the Start Time and Stop Time boxes, and click “OK” to make sure that your iPhone will be able to play the original song as well.
- Drag the new song file onto your computer desktop, then delete the file which was in your iTunes library. Rename the file extension on your desktop to ‘.m4r’
- Double click on the icon on your desktop. Your iPhone will recognize it as a ringtone and import it directly to your ringtones folder.
- Sync your iPhone with iTunes. When your iPhone sync is complete, go to Settings » Sounds » Ringtone on your iPhone. Your new ringtone can be found above the default iphone ringtones, in a new list named “Custom”.
Your iPhone ringtone is ready, and it’s totally yours.