How to Make a Voice Memo a Ringtone on iPhone XS/X/8/8 Plus/7/6S/6

Updated Sep 30,2018 | by Bennie

Voice Memos is a voice recorder, and it is one of the Apple built - in apps which lets you record and store short voice messages that you can play back at any time. It is a useful tool to leave yourself a quick reminder about schedules or record the voice when you’re conducting an interview or attending a lecture. Voice Memos is also redesigned in iOS 12 and available on both iPhone and iPad. So have you ever thought that making a voice memo a special ringtone for iPhone? And do you know how to make a voice memo a ringtone on iPhone? Here we will talk about how to easily and quickly convert a voice memo into a ringtone on iPhone XS/X/8/8 Plus/7/6S/6 with iTunes.

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Step 1: Connect your iPhone to PC with the USB cable and launch iTunes on PC. Then add the voice memo file to library.

Select “Songs” on the left category. Click “File” and choose “Add File to Library”. Choose the voice memo from your PC. You need to transfer voice memos from iPhone to PC first.

Step 2: Make a no more than 30-second-long file.

Since the maximum time for ringtones is 30 seconds, we need to edit the voice memo to a file within 30 seconds. If your voice memo is less than 30 seconds, please ignore this step.

Right click the song to enter the “Song Info” page. Select “Option” and tick “start” and “stop” to set the customized ringtone length no more than 30 seconds. Then click “OK”.

Step 3: Set AAC Encoder.

The reason why we do AAC encoder is that we need the HLS function. And The TS file required by HLS requires audio to be encoded in AAC.

Click “Edit” on the top left corner in iTunes homepage, and select “preference”. Continue with “General” -”Import Settings” -”Import Using”, and choose “AAC Encoder”, click “OK”.

Step 4: Convert the voice memo to AAC version.

Select the voice memo which was edited before, click “File” on the top left in iTunes homepage then select “Convert”, continue with “Create AAC Version”.

Step 5: Rename the voice memo from M4A format to M4R format file.

The format of the memo voice is M4A, but only M4R format is supported by iPhone ringtone. We need to convert the M4A file into M4R format first.

The edited voice memo shows up. Right click it and select “Show in Windows Explorer”. In Windows Explorer, right click the voice memo and rename the file extension from M4A to M4R. And click “Yes” in the pop-up window. Please do not close the windows explorer.

Note: If there is no file extension showed in the windows explorer when renaming, set it like this: Open any folder - click “View”- tick “File Name Extensions”.

Step 6: Copy the M4R format voice memo from windows explorer and paste it into iPhone Tones.

Step 7: Find the voice memo on your iPhone and set the voice memo as ringtone for iPhone.

Do it as this: Settings - Sounds - Ringtone – Choose voice memo.

Step 8: Set a specific voice memo as ringtone to a designated contact.

You can set a voice memo to a special ringtone just for the one you love. Then you can enjoy her / his voice when the call comes, and know who calls you just according to the ringtone.

Open one contact and tap “Edit” in the top right corner. Tap “Ringtone” and choose the voice memo as his / her special ringtone.

As you can see, making voice memos into iPhone ringtones is easy. There may be many interesting voice memos in your iPhone. As we mentioned above, if you want to make voice memos iPhone ringtones, you need to transfer the voice memos from iPhone to PC first. Do you know how to transfer voice memos from iPhone to PC? Here we recommend you two methods in detail.

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Method 1: Transfer voice memos from iPhone to PC with IOTransfer.

IOTransfer is a useful and professional transfer software. You can transfer voice memos with ease. 

Step 1: Download IOTransfer to PC and install it.

IOTransfer works in Windows 7/8/8.1/10 and fully compatible with iOS 12.

Step 2: Launch IOTransfer and connect your iPhone to PC. Then go to “MANAGE” > “Voice Memos” and choose the voice memo you want to transfer.

Step 3: Click “Export” to choose the transfer location and then click “OK” to start transferring. You can selec t voice memos in bulk and transfer voice memos to PC with one click. 

Step 4: The voice memos will be transferred to your PC rapidly. Click “View files” to check them.

Method 2:  Send voice memos via email.

Step 1: Open Voice Memos app from your Home screen or Extras folder.

Step 2: Tap the voice memo you'd like to transfer.

Step 3: Tap “Share” icon on the left.

Step 4: Tap share via Mail.

Step 5: Enter your mail address and tap “Send”.

Step 6: Launch your mail on PC and download the voice memo to PC.

After following the steps, you may feel making a voice memo a ringtone on iPhone XS/X/8/8 Plus/7/6S/6 is quite easy. And it is very simple to transfer voice memos from iPhone to computer with IOTransfer. Besides, IOTransfer can also clean and speed up your iPhone with ease. For more information, please free download IOTransfer now.

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