[3 Ways] How to Make a Video Your Ringtone for iPhone

You may be used to make an MP3 a ringtone on iPhone as per your preference. How about a video file? Previously, it was difficult to convert a video into a ringtone for an iPhone, but with the development of many ringtone manufacturers and converters, things have become much easier.

 

If you are wondering how to make a video your ringtone, whether it was taken by you or download from a website, follow the three methods in this guide to make it.

Recommended: How to Make a Video Your Ringtone via FoneTool

You may think of converting MP4 video to MP3 first, and then using ringtone maker to edit iPhone ringtones. Luckily, with a powerful ringtone maker - FoneTool, you can make it at once with one-click.

As a powerful iPhone backup assistant, FoneTool is also an assistant for customizing your iPhone, including creating ringtones from videos.

Main Features and Advantages of FoneTool
• Wide compatibility. You can utilize FoneTool to make iPhone ringtone from audio files like mp3, m4a, m4b, m4p, and video files like mp4, avi, wmv, etc.
• Easy-to-use design. Without complicated operations, you can edit your favorite iPhone ringtones without any technical requirements.
• Rich sources. No matter whether the video files are on your iPhone or computer, you can choose to edit as ringtone.

Click the download button below to get this tool to your Windows PC, and follow the steps to know how to make a video as a ringtone with FoneTool.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer via USB > Launch FoneTool, and click Toolbox > Choose Ringtone Maker to continue.

Step 2. Choose From Computer or From Device to import the video file you’d like to convert as a ringtone > Click Select to confirm.

Step 3. Edit the video file as you like. You are able to edit its duration effect, and so on > Tap Save to Device when complete the edit.

Step 4. Finally, you can rename the ringtone as per you like, and click Save again to save it to your iPhone.

Bonus: You are also offered the Ringtone Transfer service, you can access it from Phone Transfer in FoneTool, enabling you to transfer ringtones from iPhone to iPhone, PC to iPhone, and vice versa.

How to Turn a Video into a Ringtone with iTunes

iTunes is also a workable tool for Apple users to edit ringtones. However, if you’d like to turn a video into a ringtone with iTunes, you’ll need to convert the video to an audio format in advance. Follow the instructions below to make it.

Step 1. Convert the Video into Audio Format
There are several video to ringtone converters available, and here we’ll take FlexClip as an example.

• Go to FlexClip’s video-to-audio page, and upload the video from which you want to make a ringtone.

• Choose the audio format you’d like to convert to > Tap Start to launch the conversion process.

• Once done, tap the Download icon to download the audio to your computer.

Step 2. Make & Sync Ringtone to iPhone with iTunes
• Run iTunes, and click Files > Choose Add File to Library, and choose the music files you just converted.

• Right-click the file and choose Song Info > In the prompt window, click Option > Set the Start and Stop time of the ringtone > Click OK to confirm.

• Select the original song, click File > Convert > Create AAC format. Your song will now get duplicated.

• Select the AAC version of the song, right-click and choose Show in Windows Explorer > Change the extension from .m4a to .m4r.

• Connect your iPhone to computer via USB > Click the phone icon in iTunes.

•  Click Summary > Check Manually manage music and videos > Click Apply.

• Click the Tone tab > Drag and drop the ringtone from desktop to iTunes > Then, wait for the sync process to finish.

How to Turn a Video into a Ringtone on iPhone GarageBand

The last method to turn a video into a ringtone is to utilize the popular app GarageBand. It is a professional ringtone maker for iPhone, enabling you to edit favorite ringtone even if you don’t have a computer at hand.

While the same as iTunes, you need to convert video files into audio format before utilizing GarageBand. If you’re OK with that, follow the steps to know how to make a video your ringtone for iPhone.

Step 1. Convert the Video into Audio Format
• Choose a video to MP3 converter, here we’ll take Kapwing's video converter as an example. Go to its official website, and tap Start converting > Tap Click to upload to upload the video from iPhone.

• Edit the audio file as per you prefer > Tap the Export green button > Export as MP3 > Export Audio to confirm.

• Finally, tap Download file to save the MP3 file to your iPhone.

Step 2. Make Ringtones on iPhone GarageBand
• Open the GarageBand app on iPhone > Choose any available instrument, like keyboard.

• Tap on the project icon as shown in the screenshot below > Tap the loop icon > On the Music section, tap Songs.

•  Press and hold the wanted songs to open it > Drop the file as the second track.

•  Tap on the track and drag the ends to trim the audio recording as you like > When finishing editing, tap the downward arrow to save it to My songs.

• The ringtone will show up under Recent > Long press it and tap Share > Choose Ringtone option.

• Give a name to your ringtone > Tap Export > Finally, tap Use sound as ... to set it as your ringtone, text tone, or assign it to a specific contact.

How to set up ringtone on iPhone
Go to Settings app > Tap Sounds & Haptics. Under SOUNDS AND VIBRATION PATTERNS, tap Ringtone and set the new ringtone you just made.

Conclusion

That’s all for how to make a video your iPhone on iPhone. Compared with the three methods in this guide, you may find that FoneTool is the easiest to use. Whether you choose to use FoneTool, iTunes, or GarageBand, each method offers a straightforward way to convert your favorite video clips into ringtones.

Follow the detailed steps provided in this guide to make your favorite video your next iPhone ringtone.