Can't play ringtone in iOS 11

It's waaaaay too early to give up hope. Apple won't discuss what issues they are working on in advance. You can expect a resolution will roll off the Apple Engineering line at some point. Too many people have complained and written Apple about this.

Still an issue after 11.2 update????

I also have an issue with texting. When I chose a person to text from contacts and click the mobile number it goes back to the list of all my last messages? It doesn't go the blank screen for me text the person. Also when reading an email now and turning the phone sideways to make the screen wider, a dumb side box pops up and blocks half the message? Any help for these?

Yes, mine didn’t fix either and after talking with Apple tech, there probably won’t be anyway to retrieve text or ringtones. I even lost ones I purchased so they gave me 3 movie rentals! Really?!! They claim they can’t refund tones. I bought a few more and made new rin

I have an iPhone 8 running 11.0.3 and had the same issue. What I did was sync with iTunes. I haven't done this in quite some time because I always let back up to iCloud automatically. After synching, I went to Settings, Sounds & Haptics,

Ringtone, Download all purchased ringtones. Worked for me.

“Not Solved” - As numerous replies have noted. For me personally, all techniques from this thread have yielded no improvement. From what I understand, a similar bug happened in some former iOS updates. Seems Apple is familiar with the mechanism. Disappointed it was not addressed in 11.03 patch.

Look people no restarting your phone other than restoring back to iOS 10 will fix this issue...Many of us are experiencing the same issue, rest assured Apple is aware, let’s all just hope they fix it

I had already done all that and lost all but one purchased tone. Contacted Apple and they couldn’t even figure it out so gave me 3 movie rentals because they can’t refund ringtone purchases apparently. So my assumption is that everyone is have a similar problem but some things don’t work for some that work for others

No, it doesn’t do anything. And I lost all the custom tones on my phone once I connected to iTunes. And all my purchases before the update are not showing, the tech says “that isn’t possible “ so I had to send a photo of no purchases before the update! This was a horrible udate

Everyone,

Read the post by Maui Dude. I just started playing around with syncing and then my phone (unfortunately, I don't remember the exact order of the steps I took). But, the upshot is that my custom ringtones now work again! I synced my iPhone 6+ once, but that didn't work. Then, I synced it again. I also changed the "Opening" pre-loaded ringtone which was my phone was defaulting to, to a different pre-loaded generic ringtone. Then I synced again. Then, I went back to Sounds and hit the Downloaded Purchased songs again and selected one of my custom ringtones. It took that time! Again, not exactly sure of the steps (recreating as best as I remember here) but it did finally work!

I believe Apple is blocking ringtones that were downloaded outside Apple Music.

IOS 11 was a failure in several areas, hence the three quick fixes. The KRACK fix is coming. But there are many more bugs and issues that Apple is ignoring. Camera setting under settings on iPhone is missing the format function that you will find in the same setting on iPad. Zero web cookies are still stuck on my iPhone because they don’t get deleted. Battery life is poor unless you turn off most notifications, I could go on all day. Unfortunately people keep buying more Apple products with buggy software.

Did not work. I have turned phone off. upgraded again. I HATE the other ringtones. I have had my unique classical one for years. I am thinking about changing to another phone although I have had an apple since they first came out,

Your assertions are patently FALSE. Apple is NOT blocking custom ringtones and you can make one today that will work on your phone. There are bugs with this major release, just as there have been bugs with EVERY major iOS upgrade since the phone was released. And Apple works behind the scenes to fix every bug that can be fixed. And if you think this is limited to iOS, you should visit an Android forum sometime. Every time Android brings a major update, similar things happen. It's simply the nature of building a foundation that interacts with millions of users, all who use different applications. And BTW., none of the issues you have listed are happening on my two iP6 phones, nor really anyone else's I know.

rbrylawski??? I didn't make any assertions. amazeme1 speculated that custom and/or non-Apple ringtones were not being supported. I replied that my non-Apple ringtones did work (to offer assistance and clarification to others which is the goal of this forum). i have seen several of your responses on here to a number of folks who who were just trying to work out an issue. They are belittling and unkind. Clearly, you are the one who needs help and have nothing else in your life. Sorry for that dear.

Quote: "I believe Apple is blocking ringtones that were downloaded outside Apple Music." You wrote that. It's an assertion. It's an assertion that is wrong. Look, we also have the ringtone issue on one of our phones. I'm interested in seeing this resolved. Dear.

Agreed. Most of these features remain off or I’d get about an hour of battery. It’s nonsense, all of it. I could go on all day. Consumerism addicts in debtors prison.... planned obsolesence of the middle class.