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iOS 26: Set a Custom iPhone Ringtone in Seconds

iMac The Knife said:
Exactly! I haven't had any tones at for notifications since the original Droid phone. I set everything to vibrate.
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Good for you.

Many of us have ringtones. Like when using carplay, is your car set to vibrate?

I have an old fashioned phone for my contractor, a funny song about love for my wife, the munsters for my realtor, james bond for my brother, the close encounters theme for unknown callers, etc.
I know who’s calling immediately without looking away from the road.
 
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ikramerica said:
Good for you.

Many of us have ringtones. Like when using carplay, is your car set to vibrate?

I have an old fashioned phone for my contractor, a funny song about love for my wife, the munsters for my realtor, james bond for my brother, the close encounters theme for unknown callers, etc.
I know who’s calling immediately without looking away from the road.
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I have a heads up display on my windshield, that shows me who is calling while I'm looking at the road. No need for a ringtone. For me, I mean. I don't like them.
 
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So we can make a ringtone from mp3 or m4a files which could easily be pirated, but we can't make a ringtone from our fully legal Apple Music files collection. Nice.
 
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I miss iTunes. I enjoyed choosing the start and stop point of a song, anywhere in the song, making micro adjustments down to the millisecond.
 
I’ve been using a 3rd party app which I use to trim my ringtones to 40 seconds and my text/notification tones to 30 seconds and sync them to my iPhone using iMazing. The only time my phone goes on vibrate is when I’m asleep. Other than that, I need to know who is calling me without me looking at my phone, so that I have a choice wether I want to answer the call or not.
 
My Nokia from 2005 would let you choose any mp3 file, regardless of its length. Why is it so hard for Apple to be able to do something on the iPhone "smart"phone that a 20 year old "dumb" phone could do?
 
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I used to do this when I had an iPhone 4S using iTunes - trim song to suitable length and then select it from iTunes as a ringtone. Not exactly innovation.
 
Wow, I remember doing the Garageband thing almost 20 years ago. You're telling people have been doing that way since???
 
Huracan said:
It still sounds as kind of an obscure and cumbersome way of creating a ringtone. Who has a bunch of mp3 or m4a 30 seconds music files in the Files app? I don't, and probably I won't. I guess this might work if people share ringtones (send them over Messages/AirDrop, etc.)?
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I got loads. I currently use 3uTools to set them up as my ringtones etc.
 
Spock said:
It has to be said... Great to see the iPhone get an Android feature from 2008 😅
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iTunes used to let you pick any song in your library then crop it down to 30 second with a typically nice Apple UI then send save it as a ringtone. Once they started selling them, they pulled it out of iTunes super-fast.
 
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Firstly, you didn't need Garageband (it could be done through Finder and the Music app), and secondly, how many of us have <30sec music files in our Files app? How do you get it <30sec if it's not already? This really doesn't fix as much as you claim it does; the headline is misleading.
 
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stevefeinstein said:
iTunes used to let you pick any song in your library then crop it down to 30 second with a typically nice Apple UI then send save it as a ringtone. Once they started selling them, they pulled it out of iTunes super-fast.
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I remember this. Was quite easy.
 
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