Want a ringtone for your Phone?

The iPhone is a great phone, but let’s be honest the choice of ringtones that comes on the phone is a bit rubbish.  Apple do allow you to buy ringtones from their iTunes Store, but that is only available to residents of the USA.  So what about the rest of the world that have iPhones?

There is a simple work around that you can do to get your own ringones onto your iPhone.

Step-by-step Guide to creating your own iPhone ringtones

1. Select an existing track from iTunes and make a note of the start and end times that you would like to use as your ringtone.  It should be no longer than 40 seconds.
2. Right-click the track and select Get Info

   

3. then select the Options Tab
   



4. Set the Start Time and Stop Time to the times you noted in step 1 and click OK
5. Right-click the track again within iTunes and click Create ACC Version

   

6. Wait a few moments as iTunes creates a new version
7. Find the new song in iTunes, and right-click and select Show in Finder

   

8. Before we go to the Finder, Right-click the file newly created file in iTunes and select Delete to remove it from the iTunes library
9. Select Remove when prompted



10. Select Keep File when prompted



11. Now in Finder, change the file from .m4a to .m4r
12. Select Use .m4r when prompted



13. Double-click the new .m4r file and it will automatically be imported into iTunes as a ringtone.
14. All you have to do now is sync your iPhone with iTunes.

Repeat the process and add as many ringtones to your iPhone as you like.