Even iTunes hates ringtones

You’ve done things the Apple way, eschewing hacks and products like iToner to put ringtones on your most advanced mobile phone evar. Finding a CD of your favorite artist that actually has tracks you can turn into ringtones, you’ve paid the $0.99 premium on all of them and you’re ready to sync them over to your phone. Only after all is said and done, you fire up your iPhone to find just eight ringtones. What gives?

While this may not be a typical user experience (shelling out for more than eight ringtones? The mind boggles!), it’s certainly one of those things that takes a sledgehammer to the idea that Apple’s method is simple. There is, however, a solution from Apple itself: you’ll need to uncheck the “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” option, and change it so that iTunes only syncs selected ringtones. Then, sync your ringtones for all you’re worth (namely > $7.92).

Still, this is kind of like Apple punishing you for actually jumping through their myriad hoops. I’d expect the next version of iTunes to bring a fix. Then again, maybe Apple’s spending too much time locking out other methods of getting ringtones on your iPhone. Zing.

[via Daring Fireball]

Category: Tips & Troubleshooting

Posted by Dan Moren on Oct 9 2007, 3:03 PM ET

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