How to make your own iPhone ringtones

By Joseph Hanlon on 07 August 2008

Just because Apple charges for iPhone ringtones doesn't mean we should have to pay for them. Follow our step-by-step guide to creating your own ringtones using your favourite MP3 files.

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Comments (126)

  • holly commented on 15/10/2009 20:33 Report abuse

    whenever i select change to AAC version it comes up with a version that is 0 seconds long, does that have to do with living in Australia

  • Graphicus commented on 15/10/2009 19:38 Report abuse

    THANKYOU!!!!

  • Honey Bunny commented on 14/10/2009 19:36 Report abuse

    Yes!! Thank you thank you thank you!! This is the first explanation online concerning tactics to get around the squareness of the iphone that actually worked to the T! God bless your soul. :)

  • chloe commented on 09/10/2009 19:29 Report abuse

    done wat it says still nothing, any other wway i can put them onto my phone, ahve been trying for ages

  • Mandy commented on 09/10/2009 17:57 Report abuse

    Have followed the above directions, but ringtone will not go onto my iphone. Any ideas??

  • n commented on 09/10/2009 15:27 Report abuse

    thanks hips .. u make it so simple

  • nano commented on 07/10/2009 23:22 Report abuse

    sadly i cant drag the file to the ring tone part of the iphone

  • mandi commented on 06/10/2009 10:16 Report abuse

    having trouble changing the file extention to m4r....have vista can someone help me

  • fthis commented on 04/10/2009 21:35 Report abuse

    ok sorted the common prob

    READ THIS!!

    go to control panel, files and uncheck "hide common extension..." which is why it wouldnt come up with the extensions when we were renaming files

    then follow the process, just did 3

    sweeeeet

  • fthis commented on 04/10/2009 20:39 Report abuse

    having same prob, can get all the way thru up til renaming file and there is no option/way to change extension to r instead of a. any ideas??

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