Ringtones are not showing in iPhone ringtone folder.

I'm having the same problem getting the ringtones downloaded into ITunes--These ringtones are showing up in the ringtones library in ITunes, checked to be sync'd, applied, sync'd to Iphone, sync completed...... No new ringtones to be seen in settings>sounds>ringtones. Just the ringtones that came with the Iphone.

Please help. This is maddening.

Assuming you selected the ringtones to sync in the phone's ringtones tab in iTunes,it should show on your phone as a custom ringtone above the standard ringtones in Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone.

If you manually manage music and videos, you still have to sync ringtones and applications.

As Jim said, you should go and check that Ringtones are selected to sync to your iPhone. Once you connect your iPhone, go into the iPhone portion in iTunes and on the tabs at the top you should see a Ringtones tab, click in there and make sure that it's set to sync.

I had the same issue.

What I did was finally accept the "Register Your Iphone" prompt. It will register your iPhone and then you'll see the tabs for Ringtone and sync them.

It was sync'ing fine without me registering for other items like music, but not ringtones so I assumed that I didn't need to register my phone.

Anyway that's mine hopefully that'll help you.

I am having the same problem! I make my ringtones on Audiko.net and download them directly to my iTunes. They play in my iTunes and appear in my ringtones folder, but when I got to sync the ringtones to my iPhone, they don't show up! The error msg says something about not being able to locate the file, yet i can see it clear as day in iTunes, it plays, and when i close iTunes and opem it again, it is still there. I have used Audiko.net before to make ringtones, and have seen that error msg before, but it never caused an issue - my ringtones would always sync. I have it programmed to automatically sync to sync everything in my iTunes, the phone is not jailbroken, is registered and is up to date. Please help! I don't know what to do.

I also need some help, same problem have ringtones in itunes have selected all ringtones individually before syncing iphone but they still dont show up on the iphone, live in Australia does that make a difference

Don't ask me why it works, but it did for me. Try this:

1. Create a Smart Playlist in iTunes. Have it set to filter on "Kind" and set it to "is" and "Ringtone".
2. You should now have a playlist that lists all of your ringtones.
3. The next time you sync up your iPhone go to the Music tab and tick the checkbox for this new playlist.
4. Sync the Phone as usual
5. All of the Ringtones will now be in the custom Ringtone list in your Settings>Sound panel.

Something is obviously broken in iTunes and/or iPhone software. I have all of the latest versions of both installed.

hope it works for you too ! - dj

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I was able to make a smart playlist, but once i made it, non of my ringtones show up.

This is driving me nuts. I bought a ringtone maker, and its most recent update made it compatible with iphone ringtones. I make the tone, and it shows up in my ringtone tab and even plays. But when I go to sync, it wont show up as an available ringtone to sync.

Some one please help!

I'm having the same problem getting the ringtones downloaded into ITunes, checked to be sync'd, applied, sync'd to Iphone, sync completed...... No new ringtones to be seen in settings>sounds>ringtones.

Last week, my friend recommended me to use iPhone Ringtone Maker which is great!

It can create my own M4R iPhone ringtones from my movies and songs, not only a ringtone maker, this program is but also an ringtone uploader to transfer the converted ringtone to iPhone directly without iTunes after conversion if you want.

It is really good.

I've figured it out. I think this must be what is plaguing most other users:

Song length of the ringtone must be around 35 seconds or shorter. I had a bunch of files all around a minute long and none of them showed up, I changed a couple to be shorter to 35 seconds, voila, there they all were.

So you might have to re-create the ringtone files, but that looks like it's the most common solution for the problem.

I was able to clear this up by removing the existing files and recreating them. I don't know if there was something wrong with the original files and they got corrupted or what but the existing files just wouldn't show up under Custom Ringtones on the iPhone even though they were listed in the Ringtones folder within iTunes and under iPhone-Ringtones when my iPhone was plugged into my machine.

my ringtones synced successfully to my iphone but they are in the ipod folder not the sounds folder where the default ringtones are? How do I transfer them across. Have tried attaching them to a contact but it only goes to sounds folder on the phone with the few default tunes. Wierd.

One thing that might help out.

Try double clicking on the ring tone in itunes to see if it plays.

Once you play the ringtone, then try syncing it to the iphone.

Hope this helps.

Same with me dosen't show up on my iPhone but plays and everything on my comp
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Yes! I'm so happy! I was having the same problem and your solution worked like a charm. Thanks so much!