It seems that Apple is opening up its operating system more with the arrival of iOS 26, and some options, such as being able to select the number of minutes we want to snooze the alarm, are so simple that we don’t understand how it took them so long to arrive.
Along with these, we’ve also found another option that I’m sure many will like, and that is that until now, to be able to do it, we had to download external apps and watch tutorials that guided us step by step to achieve it, something that we avoided in a few simple steps with iOS 26.
Set your own ringtone on iOS 26
Until iOS 18, if you wanted to set your own ringtone, be it an audio recording, a famous song, or any file, you had to use the GarageBand app, and although it wasn’t very difficult, it was a bit tedious, and many people couldn’t do it or simply skipped downloading more things to change a simple ringtone.
With iOS 26, this changes, and the system itself will allow us to set any compatible audio file as a ringtone, thus skipping these steps and making the iPhone sound the way we want.
This will lead to the creation of many apps that didn’t exist until now, just like the ones we already know about wallpapers, Apple Watch faces, etc., since it will be as simple as selecting the tone we like and, with one click, setting it as a ringtone, without intermediate steps that prevented the existence of tone galleries.
Currently, it’s not possible to select songs from Apple Music as ringtones, even with a subscription. However, Apple still sells 30-second ringtones for around $1 each through the iTunes Store in iOS 26, but this is a legacy feature.
This doesn’t mean we can’t use our favorite song as a ringtone; however, we’ll have to download it manually, and not as easily as telling them what it is within the Apple Music app, since we understand that, due to copyright, they won’t allow it.
Currently, iOS 26 is in beta phase, so we will not be able to update our iPhones and test this feature officially, unless we want to download and test it, something not advisable for those who only use one device, and it is the personal one, because these types of beta versions have errors that could leave us without communication, suffer restarts, overheating, battery degradation, and a thousand other things that do not compensate for the fact of being able to test a few new functions, and it will be best to wait for the official version that will be released in September.
