Restoring ringtones purchased from iTunes

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You're welcome. 🙂

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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 ?

This is correct.

You get one download of ringtones. As always, it is your responsibility to backup your purchases. You should transfer them to your computer, as you should do with any itunes purchase made on your device. And you should include them in your regular backup copy of your computer.

I backed up my iPhone with a full backup after it got water damaged, and the touchscreen stopped working. As I understood it a backup would effectively image the data on my phone and the replacement phone would be identical to my damaged phone in all but serial number. Of course, it doesn't back up everything (despite being called a "full backup") - my playlists, my folders (incredibly annoying having to reorganise 9 screens of apps) and now it seems my ringtone. Which I paid money for. Unlike the other two, this is no longer just an inconvenience. I feel like Apple is stealing my money for this.