HOW TO SYNC YOUR RINGTONES TO THE iPHONE

I've done all of this (and before I updated itunes I had this all set up and have done it before) so now I have the tones folder ready and I'm trying to drag the ringtones I've made into the folder but they wont drag in. Nothing listesed on this thread has worked. Can anyone help?

arrrghhh. this is doing my head in! The ringtone is in my itunes library and in the Tones folder on itunes; Sync Tones is checked; ringtone appears in my iphone music library and is 28", saved as an m4r file and is identified as a "ringtone" in Info. BUT IT WONT MOVE INTO THE TONES FOLDER!! If I try to drag it from the Itunes library to the iphone/itunes/tones folder the whole block under Devices is highlighted and it doesn't move. HELP!!!

I can't figure this out...when I try to drag the ringtone to the Tones file, it just won't go there! It just says "[File name] was not copied to the iPhone because it cannot be played on this iPhone" <--- what does this mean?

And if I try to put it to the iTunes Tones, it doesn't say anything but it just doesn't go there!

I have a 15" MBPr and a 3GS iPhone. It is not at all intuitive, nor is it drag and drop to add a unique ringtone (read: not invented by apple). I tried all of the suggestions above and the ONLY one that worked for me was posted by carlfromhayden on 19 Feb. He provided 2 links. This one worked for me:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20122897-285/how-to-make-free-ringto

The second link may have also worked, but I didn't need to access it.

It should not be this difficult, but finally my iPhone rings Hyuna Gangnam Style for 12 seconds. It's a hoot!

Download the app RMaker and follow the instructions in the video. The app is free

HI, i;ve converted it into a ringtone and its in my tone tab on my itunes library, but it wont let me drag into my device, it has a red cross, also where is this "sync tones" option? i cant find it in preferences.

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To clarify why you can not drag the tones to your phone. Might be because you havent gone into your iphone settings and between Apps and Music you will see Tones. Click on Tones and Click sync. Now your Tones will Sync to your phone! 🙂

Enjoy!

Be sure to

Go to Edit>Preferences>General Tab> click tones. Now go back to itunes and on the top left hand side under Library you should see a symbol of a bell (labeled tones). If you don't have this, its not going to work.

Thanks sunviews for laying that out for all of us!

Don't know if the problem has been solved, but the reason the files arnt transferring is the need renaming as for some reason the file name Ringtone Maker gives is invalid hope this helps :)

I have the same problem. I had two ringtones then when I updated to the itunes 11 I synced my phone but It keeps cancelling ONLY when I have Tones in my Tones library. When I remove the tones from the itunes it sync everything else.

Yes the files are m4r file types.

Please someone explain why this is happening.

I had the same problem, when i udgraded my iTunes, my ringtone was lost.. how can i save ringtones on my iPhone?.. this iTunes 11 is not user friendly like the previous version..

I was doing it all WRONG. You have to drag and drop the ringtones under LIBRARY then a Tones option will appear next to Summary > Ingo > Apps > TONES. Then you should be able to drag these ringtones from the LIBRARY > TONES to YOUR DEVICE > TONES then sync..

To put ringtones in your device(iphone) first of all you need "ringtone maker application" in your device,make ringtone with the help of that application,then connect your device with mac/pc,open itunes in your mac/pc,after synchronizing device will appear in itunes,click your device and go to "apps" ( SUMMARY>INFO>APPS ) scroll down and then you will find "FILE SHARING" ,click on your "ringtone maker application" then you will find in the right hand side box "ringtone" made by you, drag that ringtone n paste on your desktop,then click "done" . On the left hand upper side you will see music icon ( i guess its by default ), click on that music icon then u will see some more icons,click on "tones" icon ,drag ringtone from your desktop to "tones",then again open your device in itunes and go to "tones" (SUMMARY>INFO>APPS>TONES) n then syc your device.

enjoy

Why do people keep listing the same steps that have been posted like 10 times already? We get it the steps have already been given. You repeating them in a less comprehensive way isn't going to fix peoples issue all of the sudden. We are doing the steps correctly they just plainly are not syncing. These steps worked fine before updating to Itunes 11 and ios6. Now they do not. I've done this dozens of times. But after the update it just doesn't work. If you have updated to Itunes 11 and ios6 and have figured out how to do it then please share how. But please don't list the same steps again. Just say what you did differen't or if you used the exact same steps and had success but don't or do know why.

I finally got it to work. What I did was instead of selecting "Sync All Tones". I did the "Selected Tones" option. Then manually selected all the ringtones individually. Then hit "Apply" > "Delete and Sync" and then it decided to work all of the sudden. Go figure...

I m also talking about iOS 6.0.1 and iTunes 11,

What u did in last step , I was also talking the same About syn.