Ringtones with iPhone-6

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Ringtones with iPhone-6

My wife and I replaced our stupid phones with iPhone-6 and the first thing that hit me was that the stupid phone has a capability important to me that the iPhone apparently does not. We get a lot of annoying robocalls so I set up our stupid phones with a desired ring tone for each and every entry in the phone book and the set the default ringtone to "off." That way, our phones would ring if and only if the caller was in the phone book.

As near as I can figure, the only way to turn off ringtones with the iPhone is with the mechanical switch and then no calls will result in a ring. Am I correct or is there a different solution?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on May 28, 2015 6:35 AM

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ckuan

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May 28, 2015 6:38 AM in response to Philly_Phan

Install and use a silent ringtone as default.

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May 28, 2015 6:55 AM in response to ckuan

ckuan wrote:

Install and use a silent ringtone as default.

That sounds great! Bear in mind that this is my first smartphone. How do I install the silent ringtone?

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ckuan

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May 28, 2015 7:00 AM in response to Philly_Phan

Create one using iTunes or Garage Band, below is iTunes

. Select a title (.mp3 or .m4a) in your iTunes Music Library

2. Do File > Get Info on selected title

3. In the dialog choose Options tab

4. Set Start Time and End Time (no more than 35 secs otherwise won't work)

5. Close dialog.

6. Now control click the title (right click) and choose Create AAC Version

Note: If you don't have Create AAC version, switch in menu File > Preferences...> General > Import Settings... > Import Using: AAC Encoder.

7. When it is done, drag the newly create title to the desktop.

8. Delete the newly create title in iTunes. <-- This step is important

9. Rename the title on your desktop from ringtone.m4a to ringtone.m4r

10. Drag and drop it into iTunes

Now you have a ringtone.

Make sure it is selected in iTunes > Tones for syncing with your new iPhone.

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ChrisJ4203

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May 28, 2015 7:05 AM in response to Philly_Phan

You can actually set the iPhone ringtone to None in Settings>Sounds. The other thing you describe, of only having the phone ring from persons in your contact list is how Do Not Disturb works for allowing calls from contacts. The only problem with that is the DND also silences other notifications, such as SMS, mail, etc.

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May 28, 2015 7:11 AM in response to ckuan

That's what I needed.

I gave you a "helpful" earlier and intended to give you a "solved" this time but the system won't let me.

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May 28, 2015 7:13 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

ChrisJ4203 wrote:

You can actually set the iPhone ringtone to None in Settings>Sounds.

That's the whole problem. That setting does not exist.

ChrisJ4203 wrote:

The other thing you describe, of only having the phone ring from persons in your contact list is how Do Not Disturb works for allowing calls from contacts. The only problem with that is the DND also silences other notifications, such as SMS, mail, etc.

That's why I don't want to use DND. I want this to be the permanent configuration.

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ChrisJ4203

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May 28, 2015 7:35 AM in response to Philly_Phan

My apologies, as it used to. Guess I've not made changes to my ringtones in a long time. 😕

I understand that limitation, I was just mentioning it. Have a good day.

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Philly_Phan Author

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May 28, 2015 7:36 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

NP. Been there, done that.

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Philly_Phan Author

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May 28, 2015 8:48 AM in response to ckuan

I followed your instructions and created a ringtone but it's not silent - it contains the first thirty seconds of the song that I duplicated. What did I do wrong?

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ckuan

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May 28, 2015 9:18 AM in response to Philly_Phan

You can use the mic and record nothing for 30 secs then import it to iTunes then use the same procedure.

Or you can use GarageBand to do that as well: GarageBand '11: Create an iPhone ringtone

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May 28, 2015 9:29 AM in response to ckuan

Thanks again. While awaiting your response, I stumbled through Garageband (never used it before) and created a silent ringtone and then exported it to iTunes. Last step was adding it to my phone. Works like a champ!

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ckuan

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May 28, 2015 9:31 AM in response to Philly_Phan

You are welcome.

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May 28, 2015 10:32 AM in response to ckuan

I gotta learn to be a bit more patient. The "Do Not Disturb" settings provide the ability to set exactly what I want! There was no need to create a silent ringtone.

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