There are very few iOS tasks that still require a Mac. One of those is getting your own ringtones onto your iPhone. You can buy them, but you can’t add a downloaded ...

This is a start-to-finish guide for creating iPhone ringtones using GarageBand on your Mac. To prepare for this tutorial, find a couple of songs you enjoy from your iTunes Library. You will be pulling ...

Create custom ringtones and alerts to use in iOS 5</a> Using GarageBand to make a ringtone (or alert tone for iOS 5) for your iOS device is easy. Best of all, it's a free way to get your custom ...

With the latest version of iTunes, Apple buried the interface for making ringtones on the Mac. It’s still possible but a lot more cumbersome to manage. A little-known secret is that you can actually ...

When introducing you to GarageBand in our last lesson, I claimed that nonmusicians could find uses for Apple’s audio and music application. I can hardly blame some of you for responding with a hearty ...

Apple recently released GarageBand 1.3 for iOS. Among its new features are the ability to import songs from your Music library and—on the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and models newer than those two—to play or ...

While the iPhone's standard ringtones certainly have their respective charms there's nothing quite like picking your own ringtones. It's your own little inside joke whenever your Grandmother calls and ...

If you don’t already own the song you’d like to create the ringtone from, you’ll need to purchase it from a service like iTunes or Amazon.com. Create a Ringtone Project in GarageBand Open GarageBand ...

Ringtones, right? How can you be the coolest kid on the bus without your own custom ringtone? You can’t, that’s how. With GarageBand ’11, it’s very simple to make one, and we’re here to show you how.

While Apple's tone store is stocked with a huge collection of sounds an iPhone could play for a ringtone, it is also possible to customize an iOS device with a unique ringtone of your own creation.

If your iPhone's ringtone is hard to make out in public, or you're simply tired of what's available, here's how to personalize your mobile device with a custom ringtone. Apple has a wide array of ...

Apple made headlines last week by rolling out a line of iTunes-exclusive ringtones featuring music by The Beatles—a move that excited some Beatles fans and enraged others. As with Apple’s other ...