Short Message Tones Free Download
Danielle Dinunzio
I'm looking for a decent text/notification tone. I still have yet to find one that really grabs my attention. Feel free to mention some of your favorites and if you're up to it maybe attach a link for them. They can be stock tones or homemade ones!
I'm looking to have custom tones for the Messages app on macOS. I'm currently running macOS 10.13.6. I successfully did this for my iPhone, but I can't seem to do it with the Messages app. I've already added the sounds to my /Library/Sounds folder and they successfuly show up under the Sound Effects tab in System Preferences>Sound as well as under Mail>Preferences>New Messages Sounds.
When I first got my S10, I was able to set individual alert messages per contact. The process was simple; Find the text thread, tap the three dots, go to notifications, scroll down to 'Custom'.
The custom option is just gone. I have all the phone's default notification sounds, and that's it. There's no option to set a custom text tone for any of my contacts. I've tried editing their contact information, I've looked through my phone's options with every combination of search terms and menus I can think of, nothing.
Does anyone know how to fix this? It's incredibly frustrating.
Background: Young adults are a particularly hard to reach group using conventional health promotion practices as they do not see nutrition messages as personally relevant to them. Text messaging (short message service, SMS) offers an innovative approach to reaching young adults to support and promote dietary behavior change.
Methods: A total of 39 young adults aged 18-30 years residing in Perth, Western Australia participated in four focus groups. Participants briefly discussed their perception of healthy eating and their responses to messages about increasing fruit and vegetables, and reducing "junk food" and alcohol intake. They ranked their preference for 15 nutrition messages across 3 dietary behaviors (fruit and vegetables, junk food, and alcohol) with 5 different message tones (authoritative, empathetic, generation Y, solutions, and substitutions) and identified the messages most likely to persuade young adults to change their diet. A 5-point ranking of the nutrition messages was from the most likely to least likely to persuade (1-5). The focus groups were conducted by a trained facilitator and observer and were recorded. Data driven content analysis was used to explore themes. Tonal preferences and potential motivators were collated and frequencies presented.
Results: Participants ranked offering substitutes (29%, 11/39) and using empathy (22%, 9/39) as the most persuasive message techniques in improving diets of young adults, with low responses for Generation Y (17%, 7/39), solutions (17%, 7/39), and authoritative (15%, 6/39) tones. Females were more likely to consider substitution messages persuasive (35%, 7/20) compared with males (22%, 4/19). A greater proportion of males compared with females considered authoritative messages persuasive: (22%, 4/19) compared with (7%, 1/20). There is a strong preference for a substitution tone for fruit and vegetable messages (52%, 20/39), and no overall message tone preference for junk food and alcohol messages. Substitutions were viewed as helpful and practical. Empathy was liked as it acknowledged previous efforts. Responses to authoritative tone were mixed with some feeling guilt while others found them informative. Acceptability of the solutions depended on the behavioral change and acceptability of the solution proposed. Generation Y tone had some support for junk food and alcohol messages, and if favored, was considered casual, humorous, catchy, and motivational.
Conclusions: Substitutions and tone of empathy were favored as the most likely execution styles to motivate nutrition behavior change across all participants. There is no "one size fits all" with different tones preferred by individuals for different dietary behaviors. Although text messaging provides instant message delivery direct to the individual, these results demonstrate the complexity of developing motivational nutrition message for young adults. These findings reveal the importance of considering the tone and content and pretesting messages for health promotion text message interventions.
I have a Galaxy 4 and had been using the Samsung messaging app that came with the phone. In my contacts, I have specific Messages tones set up for different reasons......my family....my work contacts etc. I only used the stock message tones that came from Samsung/Verizon.
Recently, I was given a Elipsis 8 tablet. In order to link my messages from my phone to the to tablet, a Verizon CSR told me that I had install Verizon Message+ on my phone. Now, on my phone my contact Message Tones do not work. All incoming text messages now play the standard Default Notification Sound. Is there any way to get my designated message tones for my family to work on my phone using Message+ as it did using the Samsung messages app?
That is what you should check your updates for messages in. You may have already had it and havent realised or its a steady roll out, I'm not sure. But the rest of my post should point you in the direction if the update is on your phone already.
Hi. I've just early upgraded to the S9+ from the S7 edge. On my previous phone I could have different tones for contacts if they sent me a text ie my wife had one tone, and my kids had different tones along with default tones for others so I knew who was trying to contact me and so I could reply if needed. I don't seem to have this option in the S9+ in the contacts info when editing the preferences. If this has been removed it seems a retro step for the phone. Can anyone help with this?
Me and my buddy had to spend some time fixing his brand-new iPhone 15 because his custom text tones were gone on IOS 17. The feature still existed on my older iPhone which was on IOS 16. I would not be surprised if Apple is just forcing you to use the "TONE STORE" Here is the documented process pulled from Reddit. this was on Apple forms but it got deleted... figured I would copy and post it here to
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""Here are directions for a workaround that worked for me to create custom text tones in iOS 17 (works as of iOS 17.0.1). These are for custom text tones that were not purchased through the iTunes Store.
Hi. Are you saying that a a piece needs to be added for every file? Or that simply the XML you placed above needs to be added? For example, using Windows Explorer I drug 2 files into the Tones area in iTunes, called "01 arrow.m4a" and "jetson doorbell.m4r". I am looking at Ringtones.plist now, and see many "key" so am not sure what to add.
Open System Preferences and select Notifications > Messages, then turn off Allow Notifications. You can also prevent text messages from appearing on your Mac by removing it from your Apple ID, or not connecting it in the first place.
These indicators are especially helpful for neurodivergent people, such as those with autism or dyslexia, who may struggle to understand the tone of written content. These tone tags are most commonly used on social media where miscommunication and misinterpretation are high. Tone indicators are never used as a joke; they are only used to convey the real intent and tone of the message author.
As a last resort, if you are on iOS 6, you can also schedule Do-Not-Disturb times, from when you go to bed to when you get up. One thing you could do to verify that it is indeed the text tone, is change the text tone to something different. If the different sound goes off at night again (or anytime without a text message actually appearing to come in), that would narrow it down to it indeed being a pseudo-text-notification. At that point, Do-Not-Disturb, would seem like a reasonable "hack".
This worked for me. is the text message preceded by a 'half moon'?you may have 'Do Not Disturb" on. I didn't but when I pressed "Details" for that caller, (upper right hand corner of the text screen) I found that I had the 'Do Not Disturb' button turned on.
Hello!
Last night I upgraded to iOS 17 on my iPhone 14 Pro.
Everything works smoothly for now except I can't set the custom message tones in the Sound and Vibration settings. I see the new ones just as the old ones under "Classic" but there are no my custom made tones I have been using for the last eleven years.
Does anyone experienced the same problem and what would be the solution for it?
TIA
There is currently no way to use custom tones with the new iOS unless you either use ringtones for phone calls or alarms. I have a lot of files on my device too and now the shorter ones are useless on there. I'm in the same boat and have been doing this for 11 years.
No word from Apple really about the drop of custom text tones but lots of people apparently don't like the new default notification Rebound sound. You still can't change the sounds for apps in iOS 17, and many apps don't have their own tones. -17-iphone-app-notification-sound/
I haven't updated my phone, but have noticed this on my updated iPad. I did some trouble-shooting yesterday using suggestions people had that might work. I logged out and then back into iCloud. Also reset all settings on the device. Still no luck. I'm really hoping they fix this; if they don't, I won't be updating my phone. Like both of you, I've been using custom alert tones since I got my first iPhone, 10 years ago.
Yes I am seeing this on my iPhone 12. Miss my reflection email tone and the Apex voicemail tone. There are also new ringtones I would like to set for reminder and text alerts. . I really hope they fix this soon. I am subscribed to public beta updates. :)
That is good to hear that they are aware of the problem with custom alert notification sounds. I wonder if this issue is the same for purchased text tones through iTunes? Hopefully they there will be a fix soon
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