Free iPhone Ringtones

The iPhone is one of the most revolutionary pieces of technology to be released within the last 5-10 years and thousands upon thousands of individuals own these phones throughout the world. While the applications and user interface for the device is extremely desirable and easy to use, the iPhone comes with one significant downside – the custom ringtones. With the iPhone 3G, there is a manufactured inability to have free custom ringtones. Rather, apple suggests that consumers either pay money for a 30 second ringtone or use one of the standard ringtones provided by the Apple iPhone. However, if these options don’t seem right to you, there are other ways to acquire free ringtones for the Apple iPhone.

JailBreak

With the Jailbreak method, free ringtones can be placed on the iPhone through an SSH/File transfer. Therefore, the user can drop any aac, m4r, or mp3 file into the ringtone library of the iPhone directory. Then send the song by picking any song from the iPod and move it into the ringtones section. This can be installed with App Tapp.

Allocate Ringtones without Jailbreak

It is also possible to place ringtones without Jailbreak. The user can manually place AAC fillies into an iTunes Ringtones folder. This process ideally works with purchased iTunes songs that have been converted into aac format. If the user has access to the adequate conversion software, it is possible to convert various music files like mp4 and mp3 files into aac without having to download through iTunes. However the aac files have been acquired, convert these songs into .m4r format and then place them into the iTunes Ringtones folder. Remember to be mindful that some iTunes songs are DRM protected and if a song is DRM protected this method will not work.

Other Ways to Acquire Free and Custom Ringtones for the iPhone

Aside from these methods which require a considerable amount of manual work to acquire ringtones, there are a wide variety of applications that can aid in this process and can be found through the jail broken app store. Cydia is one particular app (not a website) that has copious amounts of iPhone wallpapers, ringtones, and various small tweaks. Over time, this app has gone from having only 5,000 ringtones available at no cost to having several thousand. Even better, more are added each day and this app is capable of doing all of the work for you which eliminates the manual labor portion of the aforementioned methods.

Additional Method

A secondary additional method of acquiring ringtones can be done in the following steps:

1. Select a song from the iPod library
2. Convert that song using a ringtone creator app like Dring
3. Then email that song to yourself via the ringtone creator application
4. Download the selected ringtone from the email page
5. Select the “open in iFile” option
6. Then there will then be a prompt asking how the user wants to play the ringtone
7. Choose Audio player
8. Now that the ringtone is in the documents folder, choose the “edit” option followed by “cut” and then navigate to the var/stash/Ringtones
9. Then choose edit once more and select “paste”

From here on out the sound or music file will be considered a ringtone and can be toggled off and on from the settings area.