Restoring ringtones purchased from iTunes

You can see the list of purchased tones on my iPhone here.

I go through the process of manually transferring purchases from my iPhone to iTunes.

However, after doing so, iTunes continues to warn me that there are purchase on my iPhone that have not been transferred that I could lose if I update my iOS.

I previously did not have a "Tones" folder in my iTunes until I added some free tones I exported from my iPhone and then added to iTunes. When I take a look in that folder, none of the purchased tones from my iPhone are visible. (E.g. "BB-8: Alert" is a purchased tone that is not displaying in this alphebetical-by-name sorting of the tones in this folder.)

Additionally, when I navigate to Music > iTunes > iTunes Media > Tones (where iTunes automatically copied the free tones I added to iTunes), none of the purchased tones are visible there either. (E.g. See no "BB-8: Alert" in the alphebetical-by-file-name sorting of the tones in this folder.)

Is the to it playing ok on the phone ? If nobody else replies with a suggestion, there are some programs listed half-way down this page which might be able to copy it off : Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device

Have you not been copying over to your computer's iTunes library via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases ? If not, and if the phone supports iOS 11 and you upgrade to it, you might be able to redownload them : Use tones on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

It 'came' with you how ? If you restored to a computer's iTunes backup you must have had the tone in that computer's iTunes library. But you can now (the last couple of months or so) redownload tones for free, as long as they are still in the store, you haven/t moved countries, and the device is on iOS 11 : Use tones and ringtones on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

See Create and manage ringtones in iTunes. In principle previously purchased ringtones can be redownloaded now. Those that you made yourself or transferred should still be on your computer and can be added to your device.

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This is Apple acting in bad faith

More likely the ringtone providers haven't agreed to allow redownloading - until fairly recently audiobooks were also a one-time only download, and it's not that long since films were also one-time only downloads. The store's terms, terms advise you, to take backups of your content

Hi this solved my problem. My phone stopped playing my longtime ringtone

last week after it restarted for some reason. Although it showed it on my

"Settings", and played it when I selected it, when somebody called

me the phone still played the "Default". I sucked it up and spent the $1.29 to buy it

again. Now it is restored. Another data point is that the other ringtones that I bought

before now work, too. I guess you just have to buy one, or buy one and set it to the

default, to unlock the other ones.

Get from where ? If you want to redownload it you will have to pay to do so - tones are a one-time only download from the store. Or do you still have a copy of it anywhere e.g. on an iOS device (File > Devices > Transfer Purchases should copy it from it to your computer's iTunes library) or backup of your downloads/computer ?

Actually, you don't have to redownload them. When you plug your computer into iTunes, click device, then click Tones in the summary. It will then pull up the ring tones or alarms you have purchased. You then have the option to sync the tunes back to your iphone if that makes sense.

I have gone through the process of transferring purchases from my iPhone multiple times, but I cannot see that my the tones I have purchased through iTunes on my iPhone are being transferred to my iTunes library on my Mac. No "Tones" folder is created in my iTunes. The tones filenames do not show up in searches of files on my Mac hard drive.

The tones are still on the phone ? Where are you looking for the Tones folder ? It should be under (assuming that you are using the default location for your library) :

/Users/username/Music/iTunes

You should have a 'Tones' folder somewhere under that - is that where you are looking ?. And they should show in the Tones section of your Mac's iTunes

The tones are problematic on my iPhone. They show up in sounds selection for contacts or various notifications and play as a preview when I select the tone. However, when the function occurs for which the selected purchased tone should play, the function reverts to the default sound. I read in a different thread that setting the function back to the default sound, performing a hard reset, and then selecting the desired purchased tone for that function would fix the problem. It did. However, this only seems to work for the functions you for which you select a newly purchased tone right after the hard reset. Selecting the tones for contacts' calls or texts a little bit later presented the same problem. I did the hard reset thing again, which made the purchased tone work for the selected contact and reverted all of the previous function tones back to default.😕

As mentioned before, the tones were all purchased on the same account for which my iTunes is authorized. Music, podcasts, and apps all transfer fine when transferring purchases from my iPhone.

It would seem that I am having a similar experience with tones purchased through a mobile device on iTunes that a number of other users are experiencing: Apple makes it very easy to pay for and purchase tones through the iTunes mobile app, but offers little in the way of functionality and support in using and managing the purchased tones.

Thank you for your troubleshooting assistance, @King_Penguin.

Hi sir I purchased a song from itunes while going in settings-sounds-ringtones-store and i bought the somg but there's no option at all to set up the ringtone and i spent 1.29$ bur still no option plzz help me out thanks

You purchased a song or a ringtone ? If a ringtone it was bought on that device, the purchase went through successfully (it shows on the account's purchase history and/or you've received the emailed receipt for the purchase ?), and it's still on the phone ?