Change SMS tone on iPhone

Since iOS 5, you can also change the SMS tone on iPhone. You have the choice between different pre-installed ringtones and advisory tones and you can also buy more in the iTunes Store. Even your own music can be used as an SMS ringtone. However, this is a bit more complicated.

Change pre-installed SMS tone on iPhone

To use a message tone that already exists on the iPhone, proceed as follows:

1. Open the "Settings" app and scroll to "Sounds".
2. Click "SMS Tone" under the heading "Tone and Vibration Patterns".
3. Select the desired notification or ringtone with a click.

Buy more SMS tones for iPhone

You can download additional sounds for a fee from the iTunes Store. That's how it's done:

1. Open "Settings" - "Tones" - "SMS Tone".
2. Click "Store" in the upper right corner. There you can buy various advisory tones for currently one euro each.
3. Press the button with the price and then "buy clay". Now just enter the password for your Apple ID. The sound is loaded directly into the settings and you can use it as described above.

Import your own music as an SMS tone

You can play your own songs as ringtones or SMS tones on your iPhone via iTunes and cut them to the desired length beforehand. But that takes a little longer and is not that easy. You can find detailed step-by-step instructions here.

The instructions refer to an iPhone 5 under iOS 6.1.3.