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Since the iOS 17 update I have not been able to assign a ringtone as a text tone. How can I do this now?
I’ve even gone and bought new ringtones and told it to assign the tone as a text tone to a specific contact yet no luck!! Why??
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iPhone 14, iOS 17
i agree the ring tones should be allowed on the text messages like they used to. I have contacts assigned so a text or call are the same sound so I know who it is and I'm a nurse so all the doctors are assigned a special sound (ring or text) so when covered in isolation gear I know if it's important enough to leave the room to check it or not!!! Plus when I'm on call the longer phone call tones used as a text sound help make sure it wakes me for emergencies!!! I see NO reason to stop us from having that choice like we used to have in all the other iOS. PLEASE RETURN THIS FUNCTION!!!
i agree the ring tones should be allowed on the text messages like they used to. I have contacts assigned so a text or call are the same sound so I know who it is and I'm a nurse so all the doctors are assigned a special sound (ring or text) so when covered in isolation gear I know if it's important enough to leave the room to check it or not!!! Plus when I'm on call the longer phone call tones used as a text sound help make sure it wakes me for emergencies!!! I see NO reason to stop us from having that choice like we used to have in all the other iOS. PLEASE RETURN THIS FUNCTION!!!
I bought text tones from iTunes, when they downloaded they went to ringtones. I want them as I paid for them; TEXT TONES! My IPhone won’t let me put a ringtone as a text tone since this the last IOS 17 version update! I have a 14 pro max. How can I change the text tones that were put into ringtones wrongly back to text tones as they were originally purchased?
Thank you!! Finally someone who actually listened to what the problem is!!
I as well, hope that apple realizes that this is an issue and does a fix too. I prefer to assign ringtones as text tones to my contacts and haven’t been able since the update.
Thanks, but still doesn’t help. Ringtones and text tones used to be together before the iOS 17 update. One could assign either a ring tone or text tone as a text tone to any contact. Since the update, they are separate from each other not allowing one to assign already downloaded ring tones to a contact as a text tone!
apple needs to put downloaded ring tones and text ones back together as they were before the iOS 17 update.
Really need to get this fixed soon, please, Apple! I need to be able to set a long ringtone as a specific contact text tone to wake me up at night while I’m sleeping when I get a work text alert that requires my immediate attention!
I prefer to use text tones as ringtones. I see here almost everyone had the reverse problem of mine. Even after the update I can’t make text tones a ringtone. Can’t access them even. Nothing that I have purchased. Anyone else? Or anyone have a fix?
I’m in the exact same position, too. I needed the obnoxiously long and loud “Radiate” ringtone as the text tone for being on call. Seriously concerned I’m going to sleep through the my work’s emergency system text now.
Our on call staff rely on a text message with a ring tone assigned to a particular contact in order to be notified in the middle of the night. It needs to be something loud and persistent.
Fellow RN. Holy **** this is why I missed the stroke page the other night!! Thank god back up call called me.
Apple, please allow us to use ring tones for text. I need this for my job
It’s not fixed for me. How can I get my ringtones to go for a text tone it’s still not working.
Apple fix this! Any of the stock tones, text or ring, should be assignable as either a text tone or a ring tone, like before iOS 17.
I contacted Apple support and they told me the same thing, on how to set up a ringtone. Unfortunately that is not what we want. I think this is an operating system issue that will need to have a patch fix and hope they do an update on it.
Finally got this to work through Apple Shortcuts. After downloading the long ringtone to my phone in mp3 format I have set up an automation to:-
when receiving text from xxxxxx,
tested and working but still have contact xxx set to bypass and long text tone just in case.
tstreetkid wrote:
Apple fix this! Any of the stock tones, text or ring, should be assignable as either a text tone or a ring tone, like before iOS 17.
You aren't writing Apple here. This is a user to user only forum, which Apple doesn't actively participate. If you want to share your request with Apple, you can use this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple
Wg63-34Mes_41 wrote:
How can I change the text tones that were put into ringtones wrongly back to text tones as they were originally purchased?
At this time, you cannot.
Let Apple know your thoughts here:
Use a Ringtone as Text Tone on iPhone - iOS 17
