Q: HOW TO SYNC YOUR RINGTONES TO THE iPHONE

When you have these files in the folder, make sure you fill out everything for Get info if there are'nt any. iTunes might recognize it as incomplete if the original mp3 files does not have all the info. So just type and fill out with something and follow the steps I described some posts before.

Besides all that you have to go to Preferences then Advanced then make sure that "copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" is NOT TICKED. Then click OK. Then do whateveryone else said.

this worked first time for me /cheers blogpiper

Hi there,

I am not very computer saavy.. i have read all the replies etc.  I have an IPHONE 4s and am trying to download zedge ring tones to my iphone from my mac.  I am doing what everyone is suggesting and have been at it for hours and want to cry.  ( I am obviously a female, overtired, frustrated, and want to throw my phone and computer out the f*&% window ).  Can anyone help me?

I have connected my phone to the computer, logged into my itunes account, logged into my zedge account, selected my ringtones, hit the download button.  I am stuck at syncing it.

I have gone into preferences, devices... there is no app selection anywhere in my itunes preferences or itunes keybar up top.. cant remember what you call it..Somehow I got a ringtone to download into my itunes tones area. I dragged it over to my iphone icon.. it said syncing.. and yet my ringtones are not there.. ***??!!

Can anyone help me..sorry .. very very very frustrated.

Thanks much.

Folks, there is a BUG in iTunes 11.0.4. If you've reached the step where your ringtone is visible in iTunes, but is refusing to sync with your phone, you've hit it.

1. Under Devices, select your phone.
2. Up at the top you'll see a series of "Tabs" (they look more like buttons to me).
3. Click on "Tones" and I'll bet you  "All Tones" is selected for you.
4. Change it to "Selected Tones" and select all your tones, otherwise what you do have on your phone is deleted.
5. Sync and your tone should show up on the phone.

That should do it. Just remember, the "All Tones" sync selection is busted.

Ok so none of this is working for me. I had to reset my phone this pass weekend (iPhone 4S) and I'm trying to restore everything but the ringtones won't show up on my device. I've tried deselecting "all ringtones" and using "selected tones" I've tried in syncing and resyncing. In iTunes it shows that the tones are on my phone but for whatever reason my phone is unaware. I even powered off my phone and turned it back on hoping that would do something. Again, nada. Why do I have to go through all this again? This is my first and last apple product indefinitely. All this crap just for a ringtone? Unacceptable!

I have finally gotten it to work!!!!!!!!!!

It has only taken me 4-Weeks to add a ringtone to this new iPhone 4S, I have been issued at my new job when hired.  Having used BB's (work) and Android (personal) phones forever, this iPhone stuff not working is just plain annoying.  I am extremely computer literate and I have even had other iPhone users that have had iPhones for years try and put the ringtone on my phone and even they got frustrated and gave up. 

There has got to be a glitch in the software somewhere that is causing everyones problems, because the steps to accomplish it are extremely simple.

I just wish I knew how to tell everyone else how I made it work. 

I have followed the directions for countless hours and it has never worked and today after 2-1/2-Hours trying again, it just worked on about the 50th attempt.

Did you manage to drag your tones OK? I used iringer to create the tones for me and were exported to itunes.However when i try and drag and drop a single ringtone into the Tones bell symbol i get a red no entry sign showing and am unable to do anything.If i click on sync to sync all my tones a warning comes up to say all my music will be deleted as well! This is my first foray into the Apple world,Android beckons as customisation with Android is easy, whereas Apple is hard .......dave.

I have used iringer to create and export to itunes the required ringtones,however when i try and drag and drop a single ringtone from the library tones to my tones section in the devices i get a no entry symbol and therefore doesn't do any thing!But if i click on sync in my library tones to sync all my tones ( I only want to add one at the moment ) I get a warning stating that my music will be deleted as well! What gives and why is it so hard in IOS?...............Dave.

In Snow Leopard its not woking form me and one attempted to eat my file up in smoke. So do we have to wait for the next iOS 7 update? What do I do in my limited 32 bit 'world' Mac mini delemma?

Download and install ( with installer ) iringer from iringer .net The process is simple but i can't get it to export to my iphone,it will only export to itunes so you must sync.I don't know if it erases your music when you do sync,if it does you will have to drag and drop the music files back to your phone any questions reply to me here or my email is: davedicko1701@yahoo.com  ............Dave.

I use iringer to convert and export my ringtones,see my post below yours............Dave.

The exe. file didn't work using Crossover on my Mac mini. So unless its Mac friendly; I sooner beleive what reviewers comments stated 'that iringer is without tech support a hoax'. So don't try to con someone in this discussion group, again, Davedicko!

Like i said earlier,I use iringer ( installed with the installer)I am trying to help people with regard to ringtones etc NOT as you say "con" someone in this discussion.Not once did i mention that it is without Tech support ( my emails have gone unanswered as well )but it has still worked for me,as to wether the exe file works for you or not is your problem not mine!So please keep your derogatory comments to yourself.

So I purcahsed a Galaxy S4 about a month ago and would you likw how easy it is to set custom ringtones? 

1) Download Zedge from the Play Store

2) Search trough the library of over 10,000 ringtones and alerts for what you want (They also have thousands of stadard and live wallpapers...although iPhone user know nothing of live wallpapers)

3) click on it for a preview

4) click the icon to download which, after it's complete (take literally seconds) changes to a 'set as' button

5) click on 'set as' button and set as what ever you like, main, contact, messages, email, whatever.

And you're done in minutes without ever leaving the app, or moving things from folder to folder, or connecting to some stupid interface progam on your computer, or having to contact tech support or go to a stupid forum to find out how to do something so simple.  So why is the iPhone so great again?