Today, many people use phones such as the iPhone. This is understandable, since Apple phones are famous for their characteristics and excellent quality. But inexperienced users may have a lot of problems with the first steps in using their iPhone.
One such problem may be setting your own ringtone for incoming calls or other events. If in many others modern phones You can easily put your favorite song on a call, but on an iPhone, not everything is so simple.
The problem is that in order to set your own ringtone on your iPhone, you need to turn it into a ringtone and then make several conversions with it. You can do this as follows.
First you need to make a ringtone. You can simply download it ready-made from the Internet, or cut a piece from the required song using a music editor. It is worth noting that there will be no difficulties here, since there are many music editors on the Internet.
After this, you will need to go to the iPhone application, which is called iTunes. Open it and look for the item "File". Here we find and click the item "Add file to library". Here we select the song you need and add it. 
Please note that the song must be downloaded from your computer, since from the songs that were downloaded through iTunes app, you can't make a ringtone.
After you have uploaded a song to iTunes, select the part of it that you would like to set as a ringtone.
By the way, this piece should not exceed 38 seconds. This is the maximum length of a possible ringtone. Therefore, listen to the song and remember the time intervals of the future ringtone.
After that right click mouse click on the song and find the item "Information". Search here and go to the section "Options". This is where you specify the time intervals of your future ringtone. 
Having selected the ringtone time intervals, click on the button labeled "OK".
Having done this, right-click on the song again and look for the item "Create version in AAC format»
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After performing the above action, another version of the same song will appear, but only in the form of a ringtone, the length of which will not exceed 38 seconds. 
Next, if, of course, you are working on Windows OS, you need to do the following. Go to "Control Panel" and find the item here "Folders settings". In this window, go to the item "View" and uncheck the box "Hide extensions for registered file types".
Having done this, drag a snippet of your song from iTunes to any folder on your computer, or select "Show in Windows Explorer". Your file will appear, the format of which is m4a. You need to change it to m4r.
After that, you can uncheck the items "Start" And "Stop Time" at the original song. 
Now sync your iPhone with your computer. After synchronization, the ringtone you created will appear on your iPhone.
After all this, go to the point "Settings" on your iPhone. Look for the item here "Sounds", and then point "Ringtone". Here you will see the ringtone you created. 
In principle, that's all. All you have to do is select this ringtone and set it to your call.
The iPhone, like any other phone model, has a set of standard melodies that can be set for calls, SMS and alarms. But there is one caveat. If in simple phones In addition to standard sounds, you can ring a call with any downloaded melody in .mp3 format, but on an iPhone you won’t be able to do this so easily. Yes, yes, this is how cleverly this modern gadget is designed - the Apple developers, as they say, did their best. Therefore, we are not at all surprised that you are interested in how the call is not made from standard sounds. You will find out the answer to this question by reading this article to end.
Setting a ringtone on iPhone
First, let's learn how to change the sounds that notify us of an incoming call. To do this, do the following:
- Go to the "Settings" menu item, then select the "Sounds" section.
- Listen to everything standard ringtones and, having chosen the one you like, set it as a ringtone.
But you’re probably already pretty tired of the standard sounds and you wouldn’t mind somehow standing out from the crowd. So let's now find out how to set an iPhone ringtone that will be downloaded from your computer. But keep in mind, you will have to work a little magic on it, because a regular song in .mp3 format will not be installed on the call.
Making a ringtone in iTunes
This application is already installed on your device. But, unfortunately, not everyone can afford to use it, since all the melodies there are paid. But don’t be discouraged, if you have a computer/laptop, you can create a ringtone from the song you like absolutely free. To do this you need to do the following: 
If you did everything correctly, the ringtone you created will already be in the iPhone and will appear in the “Sounds” section. Well, we looked at how to set a ringtone on an iPhone a little higher.
Conclusion
As you can see, you can’t just put your favorite song on this device as a ringtone. You'll have to spend a little effort and patience. But if you follow the instructions, you will definitely succeed, and you can easily figure out how to set a ringtone on the iPhone.
Popularity Apple devices is growing day by day, more and more people are choosing a brand new iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, with each subsequent generation the quality of gadgets and applications grows, more and more available functions in operating system iOS, however, one of the most popular and simplest is still not available. We are talking about changing and installing personal iPhone ringtone, without use special applications. The simplest function, which in most cases you look for first, has never been available on the iPhone; after searching for call settings, you have to select a melody from the “standard” ones, or buy an application in App Store. But there is a simple way without installation special programs, it takes only a few minutes and does not require special knowledge and skills.
Instructions on how to set a ringtone for an iPhone call:
1. Launch iTunes on the computer your iPhone is synced with.
2. Select a ringtone or song from your iTunes library.
3. Right-click on the melody and select “Information”. In the window that opens, open the “Options” tab and find the lines “Start” and “End”. Activate these items by checking the boxes next to them and set the start and end for the ringtone. The length of the melody played on an iPhone call should not exceed 38 seconds. Next, click “Ok”.
4. Right-click on the song again and select “Create AAC version.” iTunes will process the song and create a short track next to the original.
5. Next, click again on the short version of the track in iTunes and select from the drop-down list: for Windows - “Show in Explorer”, or “Show in Finder” for OS X. A window will open in which there will be a file with the extension .m4a, you need it will be renamed with a different extension.m4r.
For Windows users Most likely, you will first have to disable the “Hide extensions for known file types” setting; to do this, open the “Tools” window in Explorer, then “Folder Options”, then “View” and “Advanced Options”.
6. Open iTunes and delete the short file created in step four from your library. A service window will appear with the question “Move the selected file to the trash or leave it on the computer,” select “Keep.”
7. Switch to the Explorer/Finder window and add the file to your iTunes library by double-clicking on the melody/track/song/ringtone, it will appear in a special section.
8. Connect your iPhone to your computer, in iTunes, open the “Sounds” tab in the menu, and sync. After which all the melodies and ringtones from your computer will be on your iPhone.
