Comments on: iPhone tip: Use a Silent Ringtone to Screen Calls in Your Sleep

By: Cath

Cath — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:38:28 +0000

Thank you so much. Brilliantly easy.

By: metoo

metoo — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:44:19 +0000

i second that

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:37:26 +0000

Apple has taken the MrNumber down.

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:08:15 +0000

Thank you so much!! Telemarketing calls are starting t show up on my iPhone. I am so glad to have this ringtone!

By: A name

A name — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:49:41 +0000

I didn’t have a ring tones section either until I dragged the .m4r file onto iTunes. After I did that I was able to copy the file to my iPhone 3GS.

By: Kleanup

Kleanup — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:04:39 +0000

Pretty sweet. Nice and easy the way I like things.

By: tde

tde — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:33:25 +0000

On my previous blackberry, you could create custom profiles so at night I could set it so that I could still hear phone calls and texts (teenagers out and about) but no audio notification of emails. During the day I could change the profile to alert for all notifications. Is there any way to do this on the iphone?

Ideally there are a few contacts that I would like to alert me 24/7, while everything else could be turned on or silenced.

By: walnutshoes

walnutshoes — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:47:11 +0000

Thanks so much to record this special “silence” ringtones, good job!

By: john fox

john fox — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:37:51 +0000

Thanks for this audio, a crazy guy, call me all day long to bother me, so, with this, i will know.

thanks a lot.

By: Grateful in Houston

Grateful in Houston — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:53:41 +0000

Thank you! This was incredibly easy to implement…even for a tech newbie like me.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:28:30 +0000

Thanks, silent ringtones on iTunes are .99, really thanks a lot.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:43:09 +0000

I was using this ringtone happily on my iphone 3gs, but now it has died.

I’m using my old LG shine cu7200 for a while until I decide on a new carrier. It seems to want an mp3 format. I tried texting the ringtone from my computer, but it wants to save the data as a contact.

Next I will try a microSD card. ANy idea if this m4r will work?

Thanks so much!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:38:51 +0000

Make sure “Tones” are set-up to be seen by going to iTunes>Preferences…>General. There you will see all the features (Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts,…, Tones, …) that can be displayed when checked.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:18:28 +0000

I have been trying to figure out how to silence unknown callers or to set a “none” ringtone to a contact, just like you can select “none” for text, and still have my phone on for wanted calls. Honestly I’m surprised Apple didn’t already provide this. I have talked to a few people at the Apple stores and even sent a couple suggestions to Apple online and no one ever responded to my suggestions and the people I talked to were not even aware that this was possible. Out of the blue I decided to search for “silent ringtone” and voila, your site appeared. Thank you so much!

By: Judy Hall

Judy Hall — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:34:31 +0000

OK, worked out how to do that, it created the folder by itself…… sorry never have done that……… works beautifully, thanks for the very useful tip……

By: Judy Hall

Judy Hall — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:26:20 +0000

I do not have a ringtones section in my Itunes??? Great idea, would like to do it… help please!!

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:44:07 +0000

Too bad the iPhone doesn’t come with this “ringtone” pre-installed.

By: L

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:06:37 +0000

It seems to me that for as sophisticated as the iPhone is that there would be an easier way to just assign a silent ringtone to a few particular contacts insteacd of what is suggested above. Am I missing something here? My old style phone actually just had a ringtone that was “Silent” and easy to just assign it to whom I wanted.

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:54:54 +0000

Thank you, Richard.

For others, make sure you have iTunes set to sync “tones” for your device.

By: Rockhead

Rockhead — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:24:06 +0000

Does the “silent” default ringtone this also silence incoming SMS notifications, or is that just a matter of another keystroke?

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:36:33 +0000

I spoke too soon. The ringtone is grey’d out in iTunes and won’t sync with my new iPhone 4.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:46:50 +0000

Hot Dang. I was looking all over for just this thing. I created a contact called “DNA” (Do Not Answer). And assigned it this ringtone. Telemarketers and other annoyances now go to VM for screening. Thanks again.

By: Netgyrl

Netgyrl — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:08:15 +0000

Thank you!! unknown old lady from another country keeps calling me at 5am, no matter what I say she just says “hello?” and then eventually hangs ups and calls back. Now she can just talk to my vm while I slumber on. Bless you!!

By: La

La — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:59:43 +0000

I don’t understand this concept. On my old-fashioned phone I was able just to go to the one contact I wanted to silence and put the ring tone silent. Does the iPhone do this ? I appreciate your advice and it seems at everybody else did too however it certainly seems like a cumbersome way to silent one phone call one contact when this is supposedly a smart phone?

By: Junbechan

Junbechan — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:06:35 +0000

THANK YOU!! This is HUGE, as I compiled a bunch of spam calls over the months.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:26:49 +0000

I work midnight shift and needed to leave my phone on during the day while I slept. This solves a huge problem. thanks