So this is 2025 and software should be simple and straight forward for simple tasks, right? Not on IOS.
Im a longtime Mac user who does everything on the Mac vs iPhone when I can. My simple goal here is to take a downloaded song, edit it down to 30 seconds, export it and change it to ringtone. I did this all on my Mac easily. Now I just need to get this file on my wifes iPhone and set it as a ringtone. Sounds easy right? No.
The process of transferring this little 12mb file was frustrating. I tried sending in messages app (MacOS 15) and the progress bar went to 90% and just stalled. I restarted my mac, tried again, stalled. Sending photos is never an issue. After many attempts it finally went through. When I opened messages on the iphone it was there but it was 400kbs, not 12mb. Trying airdrop was no help either.
So I went oldschool and sent an email. This went through as the full size. I downloaded it. Then opened the files app. This app is terrible compared to finder. After painful navigation i finally find the ringtone and open it. According to google I should be able to tap and hold on the file name and set it as a ringtone. Nope. I get a list of options, like move it, share it with someone else. No ringtone option. No open with app option. On the mac I can right click on any file and hit open with... Useless.
So I go into the system settings and go into sounds. I see all her existing ringtones, but no way of importing a ringtone from the files. Another failure.
So I search for how to make a ringtone on iphone. I get plenty of videos and there all the same. They say I need to download garageband, take a song that is not a ringtone, and go through this big process of opening it, cutting it down to 30 seconds, and exporting it as a ringtone from there. I did all this on my mac using a large screen, without garageband. I just want to set a file as a ringtone without using garageband on a tiny iphone screen.
I never thought Id say this but im about to go android.
end rant.
Im a longtime Mac user who does everything on the Mac vs iPhone when I can. My simple goal here is to take a downloaded song, edit it down to 30 seconds, export it and change it to ringtone. I did this all on my Mac easily. Now I just need to get this file on my wifes iPhone and set it as a ringtone. Sounds easy right? No.
The process of transferring this little 12mb file was frustrating. I tried sending in messages app (MacOS 15) and the progress bar went to 90% and just stalled. I restarted my mac, tried again, stalled. Sending photos is never an issue. After many attempts it finally went through. When I opened messages on the iphone it was there but it was 400kbs, not 12mb. Trying airdrop was no help either.
So I went oldschool and sent an email. This went through as the full size. I downloaded it. Then opened the files app. This app is terrible compared to finder. After painful navigation i finally find the ringtone and open it. According to google I should be able to tap and hold on the file name and set it as a ringtone. Nope. I get a list of options, like move it, share it with someone else. No ringtone option. No open with app option. On the mac I can right click on any file and hit open with... Useless.
So I go into the system settings and go into sounds. I see all her existing ringtones, but no way of importing a ringtone from the files. Another failure.
So I search for how to make a ringtone on iphone. I get plenty of videos and there all the same. They say I need to download garageband, take a song that is not a ringtone, and go through this big process of opening it, cutting it down to 30 seconds, and exporting it as a ringtone from there. I did all this on my mac using a large screen, without garageband. I just want to set a file as a ringtone without using garageband on a tiny iphone screen.
I never thought Id say this but im about to go android.
end rant.
