After iTunes 12.7 how can I add custom ringtones?

OSXDaily wrote a nice tutorial: http://osxdaily.com/2017/09/18/copy-ringtones-to-ios-device-with-itunes-127/

Are you running iTunes as administrator? If so try running it normally.

Drag the file to the iPhone where it appears in the iTunes sidebar, rather than to the device's tones folder.

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Try the steps here: Re: MY MUSIC- Where is it?

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Although iTunes 12.7 no longer has a section for tones those you had previously created and added to the library would usually be found in <Media Folder>/Tones.

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Reboot the phone, delete any current custom tones, particularly those with dotted circles, then try again.

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See the alternative approaches outlined in Create and manage ringtones in iTunes.

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See Create and manage ringtones in iTunes. Copy and paste may work where drag and drop does not.

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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. 😕

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Saifan, I followed your step-by-step instructions but am still unable to copy over my ringtones, either by drag/drop into iTunes or via the "Automatically Add to iTunes" directory. I tried this on both the OSX and Windows 10 versions of iTunes with my 2015 iPhone 6 running iOS 11. The ringtones I want to add are the free Portal 2 ringtones released by Valve in 2012; these tones were sadly lost from my phone during the upgrade process, which necessitated an iCloud restore for reasons I shan't discuss, and from my iTunes library prompting a download de novo.

This is what my iTunes looks like on OSX when clicking "Edit" next to "Library". There is no option to view or manage tones on my OSX device. Dragging m4r files onto the "Tones" option under device, or into the list of Tones open on the right, have the same effect - which is to say, none, regardless of whether I try to add them all at once or only one at a time.

What other steps can I try to restore these tones?

Hi Saifan. I tried to follow those steps before finding this thread, but step 4 didn't work for me. When I drag the m4r ringtones to where my device appears in the iTunes sidebar, iTunes does not react.

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For reference, the strategy does work for my iPad Mini, which cannot be updated beyond iOS 9.3.5.

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?

I was wrong. I had admin mode unchecked in Properties - Shortcut - Advanced, but it was checked in Compatibility (not even sure how those two checkboxes are different?); so I was running in Admin mode when I thought I wasn't.

(I guess that explains why I was surprised that iTunes actually started.... as another forum discusses, there is a conflict in Win 10 v1073 between iTunes and the Bluetooth driver).

So, unchecked both Admin modes, killed BTTRAY.EXE, started iTunes, and voila, drag and drop works.

Ringtone back on my phone!

(the BT issues is here: Why doesn't iTunes launch under Windows 10 Creator?)

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!!!