After iTunes 12.7 how can I add custom ringtones?

You don't need to make any changes at #2. The drag and drop facility for apps, books, and tones exists in iTunes 12.7 irrespective of that setting. In fact you don't even need #1. You should be able to drag and drop to the device when it is shown in the main iTunes sidebar.

tt2

Ah, that's daft. Since you can't choose to sync tones automatically any more those should be switched into manually managed mode without any user action. But you're right, I can't delete them, and I don't want to switch off automatic syncing for music. 😕

tt2

Yes, "Manually manage music and videos" is checked. When I say I followed your step-by-step instructions, I mean I followed each step in your instructions until the point where a step failed. In your case, that was at step #3.

It appears you may be using a different version of iTunes than me; where I have "Manually manage music and videos", you indicate "Manually manage videos".

I have iTunes 12.7 on Windows 10. Drag and drop doesn't work for me any more: not for music (or ringtones), and not into the iTunes library or iPhone. I just get a circle with a line showing that drag and drop is not allowed.

That is frustrating on all kinds of levels... but how else can I get my ringtone back into my iPhone?

And nothing will. Ringtone management is broken in iOS 11 / iTunes 12.7. I have four ringtones on my phone which I purchased from the Tones section of the iTunes Store, and there is no way to get them off of the phone. No way to delete them directly from the device, and because they don't show up in iTunes, no way to delete them there. This has been escalated to engineering at Apple.

The tips below are helpful until one gets to the final stage. I am running Windows 10 with ITunes 12.7 and I can't drag and drop ringtones into the area indicated - I just get a no entry sign. THIS IS SHOCKING BY APPLE TO DISABLE ALL CUSTOM RINGTONES. VERY ANNOYED & UNHAPPY!!!

ok, I had the same problem but all you need to do is:

1. go to files.

2. click convert.

3. you should be able to then click "create AAC version"

(for those who don't know and or are new)

4. copy song (that is now 30 secs or less*) to desktop

5. rename from ".m4a" to ".m4r"

6. then copy that into ringtones.

*to change song's length right click, go to "song info", click options and change*

if you did not need a step then just skip it, I hope that this helped you in some way

^~^

-M

I will try these workarounds. I have spent several hours trying different ways to make my custom ringtones work on a new SE w/ 10.3.3. Apple would like you to realize that it would benefit them tremendously if you bought some ringtones, but the ringtones available are annoying and limited.

Switching to manual management really shouldn't be necessary to control tones given that syncing of tones has been removed, but it seems to be required sometimes, presumably if syncing of tones was enabled previously. 😕

tt2

I followed all the steps above and dragged them to my tones folder on my device but they were all greyed out, BUT as soon as I unchecked one tone they all synced to my phone so try unchecking one ringtone and see if it works. It worked for me. WooHoo.

Thank you so much for this information. I kept searching and searching on how I could add my homemade ringtones to my iPhone and you gave me the answer. It worked perfectly. I really liked the older version of iTunes where you just select which tones you would like. I have seasonal ones and so I don't always need my Christmas tones on my phone. Thank you again for this resolution to my problem.

No, there is no way because Apple wants you to buy their overpriced ringtones. I spent 51 min on customer service call yesterday only to schedule a callback following day, during wich the supervisor notified me that using custom made ringtones is impossible, and that the previous rep should have known that. She also suggested that I do not have to be with Apple, since I am not happy with it. I am going to follow her advice. I called again, since I discovered the tones I purchased in 2007, 2009 were being affected by this Apple glitch, I

No, there is no way because Apple wants you to buy their overpriced ringtones. I spent 51 min on customer service call yesterday only to schedule a callback following day, during wich the supervisor notified me that using custom made ringtones is impossible, and that the previous rep should have known that. She also suggested that I do not have to be with Apple, since I am not happy with it. I am going to follow her advice. I called again, since I discovered the tones I purchased in 2007, 2009 were being affected by this,

Yeah, it ain't just custom tones. I have tones that I purchased from the iTunes Store on my device that I cannot delete. I can't get them into iTunes to delete there, and I can't delete them directly from the device. I've even tried three different third party iPhone management software and two of them generate an error when I try to delete the ringtones, and the third appears to process the delete, but when you refresh the list, it reappears (so the delete errors in the background).