How to Turn a Voice Memo into a Custom Ringtone on iPhone with iOS 26

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All iPhone users are familiar with the challenges of personalizing their devices in iOS. However, Apple has been gradually introducing new personalization options with each update. Using a custom Ringtone on iPhone is also challenging, but with iOS 26, there’s now an easy alternative. You can now use recordings from your Voice Memos as your Ringtone.

iOS 26 is a big update that introduces a major UI overhaul, which may overshadow other useful but minor changes and features. So, it may be possible you might not have the opportunity to explore the new Voice Memos feature.

Voice Memos allows you to record, edit, share and various other useful options. Voice Memos can be useful in many situations whether you’re recording lectures, meetings, musical ideas, or anything else.

With the release of iOS 26, Voice Memos app has become even more useful. One of the new features is the ability to set any recording as your device’s ringtone. Here’s how you can easily customize your phone’s ringtone using Voice Memos.

How to use custom Ringtones on iPhone using Voice Memos

Step 1: First update your iPhone to iOS 26, if you haven’t already. Then open Voice Memos app on your device.

Step 2: Expand the recording that you want to set as ringtone or record a new audio. Next tap on three dots for more options.

Step 3: Select Share and then tap three dots to expand options.

Step 4: Scroll down and tap ‘Use as Ringtone.’

Step 5: It will redirect to Ringtone settings page and the ringtone will be set automatically.

That’s it! This way you can easily record any Ringtone audio and use it as your iPhone’s ringtone. However, since you need to record audio, make sure to do it in a quite environment to avoid background noise.

This way, you don’t have to follow a long process to use custom Ringtones on an iPhone. It’s quite an interesting and easy way to use custom ringtones. You can try all sort of funny audio as ringtone for fun.

Do you find this new feature interesting and useful? Were you looking for an easy way to set custom ringtones? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comment section.

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