Apple's announcement that it would begin selling ringtones through the iTunes Store has kicked off quite a debate over ringtones. New York Times columnist David Pogue recently asked his readers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

My iPhone often stays on silent, but a new iOS 26 ringtone has tempted to rethink that choice. Here’s my new favorite iPhone ringtone.

Slide back in time, if you will, to the year 2007. Musical ringtones resounded on cellphones, marking their owners' identities in public spaces. Little more than a decade later, these sonic signifiers ...

A recent update to the Google Pixel Sounds app brings the new Gem collection of ringtones and alarm sounds. These sounds became official with the launch of the Pixel 8 series, but now other Pixel ...

If there’s been more bluster about anything other than Apple’s $200 iPhone price cut, it’s about the new support in iTunes 7.4 for purchasing ringtones from the iTunes Store. Apple’s implementation of ...

I really don't understand folks who use songs as their ringtones. Isn't it annoying or confusing when the song comes on the radio? If it's your favorite song, don't you get desensitized to it when you ...

For those of us above a certain age, custom ringtones were a rite of passage. Blasting your favorite tune from your flip phone was as critical to your identity as your MySpace profile (and equally ...

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