Three Methods to Make iPhone Ringtone for Free

When we have a phone, we usually want to use our favorite ringtone, but it seems that Apple doesn’t make it easy to make ringtones for iPhone like Android. But you can always find the solutions. So, how to make ringtones for iPhone? Following I have collected three ways to make free ringtones for iPhone.

Method 1:Make Custom Ringtones for iPhone Free Via iTunes 11
Step 1. Open iTunes and choose the song you want to make a ringtone from. And you had better duplicate this song for safety.

Step 2. Now, right-click and select ‘Get Info’, Select the Options tab and you can set the ‘Start time’ and ‘Stop Time’ for the ringtone. Click OK to apply the settings.Make sure it doesn’t exceed 30 seconds.

Step 3. Go back to iTunes library and right-click on the song you just edited, Select ‘Create AAC version’.

Step 4. Now you got a .m4a version of the song. Select the file, click ‘File’ menu and select ‘Show in Finder’ (for Mac) or ‘Show in Explorer’ (Windows), and rename the extension to “.m4r”.

Note: if you don’t see the .m4a extension along with the file, or you have trouble in changing a file extension from one to another,you need to uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" in Tools>Folder options>View tab.

Step 5. Head back to iTunes and check the “Tones” section, then you should have seen your new ringtone should be out there. If it’s not added, drag and drop the ringtone in iTunes

Step 6.Sync your iPhone with “Sync Tones” enabled and your new ringtone should be up on your iPhone too.

Method 2:Make iPhone ringtones for free with GarageBand (Mac)
If you are Mac users,you can benefit from the default application GarageBand installed on on all Macbooks and iMacs.

Step 1: Run the program and select iPhone ringtone from the sidebar. Select “Voice” and click “Choose”, and name your ringtone on the pop up “New Project” window. Click “Create”.

Step 2.Add a song by drag-n-drop an audio file from a folder or clicking the Media browser button to choose music files from your iTunes library.

Step 3. Drag it yellow bar at the top of the pane forward or backward to capture the necessary section to select a 30-second-part you’ll use as a ringtone.You can click play to check out the ringtone.

Step 4.Click Share menu and choose “Send Ringtone to iTunes” option. Launch iTunes, connect an iPhone to Mac and transfer the ringtone to your phone.

Method 3.Make Free iPhone Ringtones with Ringtone Maker
Step 1:Download and install the free app.

Step 2:add a song

Step 3:choose a 30s part of it

Step 4:create a ringtone

Apart from the free methods, you can also create your own iPhone ringtones with the mac software like iAm Ringer.And if you just want to download free iPhone ringtones, you can visit the following website.

• http://www.free-ringtones.cc/
• http://www.zedge.net/?updPhone=5937

After you have send the ringtones to iPhone, you can find the new ringtone on settings> Sounds > Ringtone. The ringtone you just created should be listed at the top under "Custom" or "Purchased."And then you can use the free rintones.


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