iTunes 11.4 will not sync ringtones with iPhone 6

This is also doing the same on Mac OS X. Does anyone know why?

You have to enable ringtones in your library. I was just wondering the same thing, and these are the steps I took to resolve:

1. Open iTunes Preferences.

2. Under the "General" tab, in the "Sources" section, ensure that the "Tones" box is checked. Click OK.

3. Go into your iPhone in iTunes and you should see the "Tones" section at the top. Click and sync your ringtones.

Easy as pie.

I would just that that if the option to sync tones is already checked it may help to uncheck it, sync, then check it and sync again.

tt2

Does not work. No sources section under general in itunes 12.

Click the ellipsis ... in the source icon area and turn on the sources that you want.

tt2

This is what I see. I will say that this thread is specifically about iTunes 11.4, so whatever changes there may be between the versions should be considered. See turingtest2's advice, as I'm sure he has a better understanding than I do. Thanks!

Sure, however you're not running iTunes 12 yet. 😉

The sources list from that dialog has disappeared, now controlled here.

tt2

Turingtest2 -

Can you repost that the tones12.png? It didn't post correctly. I having the same problem that ringtones appear to sync but don't appear under the ringtones (using 8.1 and itunes 12).

thanks.

Reposting:

In iTunes 12 the Tones section of the library is enabled by clicking on the ellipsis .... and then putting a tick against Tones. Once enabled click the bell icon to view the tones in the library.

tt2

I spent half a day yesterday sorting this out but finally a post on one of the other forums solved it...

Check that your original file is an mR4 file not MPEG. Even if it is mR4, it may have strayed into the Music folder in iTunes rather than the Ringtones folder. I had this same problem - no way to make it move from the Music library into the Ringtone library.

Apparently the problem is that once a file is in a folder, iTunes doesn't go back again to check the extension. You need to move the original file out of the music folder to, say, the desktop. Make sure it's deleted from the Music library. Then upload it back into iTunes and it should check its file type because now its a new file and put it in the Ringtones folder. Then make sure the new ringtone is selected and sync. This is what worked for me (finally).

PS: I used Audiko Pro to create the two ringtone files - one worked simply and automatically, the other was a nightmare. When I backed up from my iPhone 5 to iPhone 6, the first one transferred automatically, the second had a mind of its own.

I've just done this today. I'm using fully updated OS on both iPhone 6 and iTunes as of this date. This is my first time post for this sort of thing as I couldn't find the definitive post which takes you through it along each step. Hope this helps.

1. Once you've chosen the tune you wish to use as a Ringtone, you need to convert it to ACC or MP3 file (when it appears as a copy in iTunes as a duplicate song rename it)

2. You can go into the "Get Info" section to make alterations to the format of the song - e.g. which bit of the tune you want and there's plenty of content on how to do that on here

3. I then took the renamed tune, right click to Open in Windows - this takes into Windows and I then dragged that file onto my Desktop

4. You then have to convert this file from .m4a to .m4r - this was the tricky bit and I couldn't at first find the answer either converting via iTunes or Windows 7

5. Under Windows - Control Panel - Appearance - Folder Options - View tab - then "Uncheck" the "Hide Extensions for Known File Types"

6. Go back to your the tune placed on your desktop and right click and you can now rename the tune with the file extension .m4r

7. Drag this back into your iTunes folder ensuring you're clear that this is now the copy you want to use as a ringtone to synch (i.e. deleting other copy's, etc - keep the original if you need that.

8. In iTunes you need to make sure that you're able to Synch Tones - again, there's plenty of posts to explain that

9. Synch and it should get onto the phone.

Hope that helps.

I think you need to start with a file in AAC (.m4a) format, 40 seconds or less before you get to step 4. I don't believe changing the file extension of an .mp3 file works.

tt2

I got it to sync, by opening the ellipse button, selecting "Tones" all my personally created custom tones were listed, I tried to paly and it couldn't find them. I had iTunes search for location and had it update the location of the tones. Went back and Sync'd the new phone and it worked. iTunes 12.3.0.44 Latest iTunes.

This is the most convoluted way to have to add a ring tone ever, and all the fly outs and hidden menu items in iTunes is super lame. You have to click and drag the ringtone up to the iPhone icon and then a flout appears for you to drop the tone into. LAME but that works.

Thanks gibbons nice one it worked a treat thanks for your input

Mike.