How To add SMS Ringtones to your iPhone with SMS Tones

The latest mobile operating system of Apple has a very unique feature of adding alert tones and custom SMS to the iPhone. Earlier, very few SMS ringtones were available on the iPhone. That is why the tritone sound was very common and annoying too.

With the introduction of iOS 5, many ringtones have been included by Apple. You have the option to add more number of ringtones for a beautiful texting experience.

Getting new tones for the iPhone is an issue as you have to buy them or search a lot to get free tones. The app store of iPhone has introduced an app which makes it very easy to add SMS ringtones for free. This app is known as SMS Tones. It offers a large number of SMS ringtones that gives you a fresh stock. You can keep on changing your ringtones on the iPhone with this collection.

Get The SMS Tones App

Go to the app store of iTunes. Look for SMS Tones Free or click onhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sms-tones-free/id471682442?mt=8. You can download the SMS Tones app. You can avail this app for free. A paid upgrade is offered which gives you more number of SMS ringtones. You will get more than 40 tones in its free version.

Select SMS Ringtones

As soon as the app is opened, many ringtones will be displayed in a list. These will not be displayed alphabetically. But you can easily search your favorite ringtone through them.

If you want to hear the sound or music of the tone, tap it. The preview will not take much time to load.The preview can be played for any number of SMS tones you want to hear. This will not add any ringtone to the iPhone.

When a preview is played for a ringtone, it will be notified with a small circle that appears near its name. Click on the circle if you wish to add this ringtone. This will set the ringtone to get added to the phone.

How to Add Ringtones To Your iPhone

You have to follow a proper procedure to add SMS ringtones to the iPhone. Ringtones can be added through iTunes by synchronizing. You have to follow the same process in iPhone.

Choose the ringtones you would like to have. Connect the iPhone with iTunes. You can see the tones under the ‘File Sharing’ section.

Click on ‘File Sharing’. You can now copy these SMS ringtones and paste in any location.
Take these files to the iTunes library. You must ensure that the ringtone synchronizing should be turned on before the new tones are added to your phone.

Finally, click on ‘Sync’. This will run your iPhone through sync process.

After completing this process for adding SMS tones to the iPhone, check out ‘Settings’. Go to ‘Sounds’.The alerts can be changed for email, SMS and other sounds. A list will display the items which you have downloaded. This adds SMS ringtones to the iPhone.