I made a custom ringtone on my M1 iMac macOs 11.4, but i haven't been able to download it to my ringtone library on my iPhone XS iOS 14.6. I converted a 20 sec. clip of a song in my Music library from .m4a to .m4r. Nothing I have tried seems to add it to my ringtone library on the iPhone. The various tutorials on the web haven't been helpful. Any help would be appreciated.
iPhone XS
Thanks for the reply. I followed a method that is described on web by several posters. It starts with selecting Get Info on the original song in Music and adjusting the clip time under options to less than 30 seconds. This created an AAC .m4a version. I changed the .m4a to .m4r. This didn't import to my iPhone Ringtones. At your suggestion I tried using Quicktime Player by following methods I found in on-line posts. This didn't work either. Is it necessary to sync my iMac Music to iPhone for this to work. Maybe these procedures aren't accurate for newer iPhone software versions.
All you have to do is drag the .m4r onto the iPhone window in the Finder. But, it has proven difficult to achieve the correct format it will accept.
It could be that all of the tweaking that seems to work is purely coincidence, and it is just randomly successful.
Highlight in Blue doesn't cut it, I think.
The window needs to open and show the general information about the phone with all the tabs for the various items you can sync. The icon you are dragging should then get a green + badge. You can drop it anywhere in the window.
This worked. Thanks for you help.
How did you convert it? Quicktime Player seems to be the most successful method.
Other tools seem to make the file distasteful to iOS.
I tried many times. The iPhone in left side bar does highlight in blue when I drag .m4r file but doesn't appear in Ringtones under Sounds & Haptics. I don't know what else to try at this point.
Custom ringtone made on iMac doesn't import to iPhone
