No matter how paradoxical it sounds, but some very elementary actions that are budget smartphones and tablets with Android on board, you can do it in a few movements, it is quite difficult to do it on the iPhone.
Setting any mp3 track as a ringtone or deleting it, downloading or deleting music, a movie on an iOS device is also not difficult, but requires special knowledge. Today I will show you how to remove ringtone (ringtone) from iPhone.
We have already talked about how and how to use it as a ringtone.
Suppose you are tired of old ringtones and it's time to update your collection. It is not good to litter an expensive device with unnecessary "garbage", irrelevant ringtones "under the broomstick."
In order to delete an unnecessary ringtone from the iPhone memory, you will need:
- standard USB cable;
- iPhone from which you want to remove the ringtone (sound);
- computer on Windows based or Mac OS X;
- file managers: iFunBox (free download), iTools (free download) or DiskAid (official site)
How to Delete Ringtone Directly from iPhone
Swiping to the left on the name of the ringtone in "Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone" does not give any results. Removing ringtones directly from iPhone does not work (for devices without jailbreak), you cannot do without a computer.
If you have a device with a jailbreak, you can delete the ringtone directly from the device. To do this, you need to install the file manager for iOS - iFile. It is available in the BigBoss repository (http://apt.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia), you don't need to add it, it comes bundled with Cydia. IFile costs $ 4, but if you are actively digging into the file system of the iPhone, the program is irreplaceable. There is also a hacked version of the manager on the network, we cannot give a link, but Google can do everything.
We remind you that only owners of jailbroken devices will be able to install iFile and access the iOS file system directly from the iPhone.
How to Remove Ringtone from iPhone via iTunes
Only those ringtones can be deleted from the iPhone via iTunes that were downloaded to the device's memory with its help.
It is impossible to delete ringtones downloaded by file managers like iFunBox and iTools using the media combine.
To remove ringtones from iPhone:
How to remove ringtone from iPhone using file manager
File managers iFunBox, iTools and DiskAid "know how" to download and delete music, videos, ringtones (sounds) and documents from iPhone bypassing iTunes without synchronization.
Some of the manager's capabilities are also available for "pure" iOS (no jailbreak), including working with ringtones (add / remove), except for standard ones.
By using file manager you can delete ringtones:
- available in iOS by default (standard);
- downloaded via iTunes;
- downloaded using file managers (iFunBox, iTools and DiskAid).
How to remove standard ringtone from iPhone
We will deliberately not talk about how to remove standard ringtones from the iPhone, because we do not recommend it ourselves. After deleting the ringtone file from the device memory in "Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone", the records with the names of the deleted ringtones still remain, the ringtone is deleted only physically. Let's try to delete the standard "Silk" ringtone, but first you need to access the iOS file system, and without doing this you won't be able to.
In order to access system folders in iOS 7.1.2, in addition to it, you need to install "Apple File Conduit 2" in Cydia. This tweak opens access to system partition iOS.
Ringtones in iPhone before deleting Silk.m4r file
Ringtones content on iPhone before deletion
Ringtones in iPhone after Silk.m4r removal
Ringtones content on iPhone after deletion
As you can see, the contents of the "Ringtone" menu in the iPhone settings and after physically deleting the ringtone file contains an entry with its name. By tapping on it, you can make sure that the melody will not be played. There is no point in removing ringtones this way.
How to remove unnecessary ringtone from iPhone downloaded via iTunes using iFunBox and iTools
File managers iFunBox and iTools allow you to get to the folder with downloaded via iTunes ringtones and in "clean" iOS, and if you need to remove some of them, there is no need to jailbreak.
Ditto in iTools:
As you can see, it is more convenient and faster to delete unnecessary ringtones downloaded by iTunes in iTools, they are available from the main menu. Choose which option to use: iTools is more convenient, iFunBox is available in Russian.
How to delete ringtone downloaded to iPhone with file manager
If you have previously "uploaded" to the iPhone's memory own ringtones via file managers (iFunBox or iTools), they are among the standard ones and are available in the “Ringtones” (in iFunBox) and “Ringtone” (in iTools) menus.
It's a little easier to do the same in iFunBox.
As you can see, you can remove an unnecessary ringtone from an iPhone in several ways at once and it's quite simple to do it. Those ringtones that were downloaded through iTunes can be deleted with the same "tuna" or any file manager, but you need an iOS jailbreak.
If you have any questions or problems with removing sounds from the memory of iOS devices, write to us in the comments, we will certainly help you.
Today, many users of Apple products who have just bought a new device often face some problems that may arise during operation. Although, frankly, these are difficult to call problems, because these are just features of Apple products. Features that you need to get used to and eventually understand that everything is thought out to the smallest detail. In this article, we will look at the question of how to remove music from iPhone. There are several ways to delete music, and we will now tell you about all of them in detail.
Method 1. Deleting individual songs directly from the phone itself
So, if you have an iPhone in your hand and you urgently need to erase several music files from it, then this can be done as follows:
Using this method, we can delete one or more unnecessary songs from our phone. Now let's move on to the method that allows you to completely delete all songs from the iPhone.
Method 2. Deleting all songs from the phone
Be careful: this way will delete all music from the device, which can only be restored through the computer with which the iPhone was previously synced.
The above two methods have been demonstrated on firmware version 7.0, but if you have firmware version 5 or 6, these methods will also work. On firmwares more early versions, it is not possible to delete music files directly via the phone.
Well, now we are able to delete music from our phone without syncing with iTunes. Well, now we will analyze the ways how to delete music from iPhone through a computer, and in particular through iTunes program.
Method 3. Delete all music using a computer
Method 4. Delete individual songs from iPhone using computer
Be careful: if you delete music files from the iPhone using iTunes, they will first be deleted from the iTunes library, and from the iPhone they will be deleted only when the phone is synchronized with the program itself. Not everyone will be satisfied with this option, because many would like the track to be saved in the media library, and it could be returned to the phone again. For such cases, there is another way to delete music from iPhone.
Method 5. Delete music files and keep them in your iTunes library
So, in this article, we described in detail five ways through which you can delete music from iPhone. We sincerely hope that this article was helpful to you.
P.S. As is often the case, all of the above is also suitable for removing music from iPad.
Users Apple technology and did not suspect that they would be wondering how to remove the music from the iPhone, until they found songs from the U2 album in the playlist, which were not so easy to say goodbye to. You can get rid of these songs and "clear" the iPhone memory by deleting boring songs in several ways - it is not at all necessary to delete them one by one by the internal means of the gadget itself.
If you don't like the song, delete it from your iPhone in a few steps:
Step 1. Go to the built-in application “ Music».
Step 2... Find the track you want to delete in the list.
Step 3... Swipe (slide your finger) from right to left on the name of the composition. The red button “ Delete».
Step 4... Click the " Delete”, And the song will be erased from the iPhone's memory.
Please note that in this way you can delete songs that are located in account iCloud rather than saved in the device's memory will fail.
The described method is suitable if the user wants to erase one or a couple of songs. However, if the owner of the gadget set about "global cleaning" of memory, it is more appropriate to apply other options.
How to remove all music from iPhone?
The need to delete all the songs usually arises after buying a used Apple device, the former owner of which had an extremely bad taste in music. You can erase all music through " Settings»:
Step 1... Find in " Settings" chapter " The main", And in" The main"- subsection" Statistics».
Step 2. Open the subsection " Statistics»And wait for the iPhone's memory status data to download. You will see the following picture:
In field " Music»You can see how much memory the music files are using. From our example, it can be seen that the music in a 2 GB device is a quarter of shared memory gadget.
Step 3. Go to the subsection " Music". You will see the following:
Step 4... Swipe from right to left across the " All music"- the red button" Delete"Familiar from the previous instructions.
Step 5... Press the red button, and the entire music collection will "sink into oblivion." Take this step deliberately: it will be possible to restore the collection only through a computer with iTunes with which the iPhone syncronized earlier.
This method allows you to erase songs from the device that have been loaded from cloud service iCloud(unlike the previous one).
The described methods of deleting music by means of the gadget itself are available only on devices with iOS higher than 5th version (inclusive). On firmware of earlier versions operating system erasing music without connecting to a PC is impossible.
How to delete music from iPhone via iTunes?
Method for deleting songs from iPhone via iTunes convenient in that the entire list of songs from " Media libraries"Is in front of the user's eyes - no need to spend a lot of time searching for the desired composition, scrolling through the playlist on the small screen of the gadget.
Deleting songs through iTunes occurs according to the following algorithm:
Step 1... Open iTunes and go to the " Music».
Step 2... In chapter " Music"Open the" My music».
Step 3... In the block " Mediathek»Select« Songs". The song list appears without any grouping.
Step 4... Select the song to delete and right-click on it to bring up a menu.
Step 5... In the menu, find the option “ Delete"And click on it.
Step 6... Confirm the deletion - in the window that appears, click " Delete song».
This will remove the track from iTunes Library, but not from iPhone memory.
Step 7... Connect your smartphone to your computer, go to the device control menu and start synchronization.
After synchronization in the application " Music»Only those songs will remain on the device that at the time of synchronization were in the "Mediatek" iTunes... So if you want fully update your music collection, then on 4th stage instead of selecting one song, press CTRL + A and select all.
How do I delete music while keeping the file in the Media Library?
You can do without removing the composition from the "Media Library" - you need to proceed as follows:
Step 1... Connect the gadget to your PC and run iTunes. Now you need to do it right away.
Step 2... Go to the device management menu by clicking on the smartphone icon in the top panel.
Step 3... In the block " Settings" Choose a section " Music».
Step 4... Check " Featured playlists, artists, albums and genres" instead of " Whole media library"- then you can determine which songs to transfer to the iPhone's memory, and which ones - just leave for storage in the" Media Library ".
If you synchronize with the configuration shown in the figure, then all music from the device will be deleted.
Step 5... Select the music you would like to keep on the iPhone. iTunes offers several selection criteria - by artist, by album, by music genre, you can even leave only the 25 most listened songs on the device.
For example, if you are making a selection by artist, then you need to check the boxes in front of the names of only those groups that you would like to see in your playlist.
Step 6... Click " Synchronize". Only the songs you marked will remain in the device's memory, the rest will continue to be stored in the "Media Library" iTunes.
How do I remove the U2 album from the Music app?
After iPhone presentations The 6th generation Apple has shown unprecedented generosity and presented users with a new album by the Irish band U2 " Songs of Innocence". Not everyone liked the gift, and some are frankly outraged that Apple is imposing its music on them and that removing the proposed songs from the music collection, as it turned out, is not easy. The traditional way of deleting by swiping from right to left does not give any result - the gift album continues to "hang" in the application " Music", Indicated as a purchase in the AppStore.
Some users still continue to walk with Songs of Innocence in the player, without even suspecting that deleting an album is quite simple:
Step 1... Run the program iTunes and go to the section " Music».
Step 2... In the top menu, select the " iTunes Store».
Step 3... In the menu on the right, find and click “ Purchases».
Here, among the albums purchased at will, you will find the imposed Apple Songs of Innocence.
Step 4... Hover over the album image and you will see that on the left upper corner a cross appeared.
Click on the cross - this will remove the unnecessary album from the shopping list iTunes.
Step 5... The marks left by U2 on your iPhone need to be erased too. Remove songs from the album in sections Artists and Albums: now you can do it in the traditional way - with a simple swipe.
Step 6... Go to « Settings"Gadget and find the section" Music».
Step 7... In chapter " Music"Deactivate the toggle switch opposite" Show all music". This way you will protect yourself from re-intrusion into your personal music collection.
There is another way to delete Songs of Innocence from the music collection:
Step 1... Go to the dedicated U2 album deletion page.
Step 2... Click on " Delete album"And enter Apple ID and the password from it. Then click " To come in».
A message with the following content will appear.
Step 3... Remove U2 songs from app " Music»In the usual way.
U2 album can no longer be re-downloaded for free after deletion... However, hardly anyone will regret it - according to most music critics, the album turned out to be extremely unsuccessful.
Conclusion
The user of mobile technology should not put up with the fact that the manufacturer steals space in the memory of his device, as Apple did. Alas, the album Songs of Innocence group U2 it is still impossible to erase without using a computer. However, after receiving a lot of outrageous reviews, Apple opened on the official website iTunes a special page called “ Removing SOI"- after that, the removal of an unwanted album became for users who know their Apple ID and having access to the Internet, a matter of two mouse clicks.
With the release of iTunes 12.7, Apple removed the section from the program. Ringtones allowing you to download, edit and delete ringtones for iPhone ringer... This measure did not stop users who even in the updated iTunes, however, faced difficulties in removing them. In this article, we will tell you how to delete any ringtone downloaded to iPhone.
In this article, we will not cover Apple's recommended methods for removing ringtones, such as:
There are two ways to remove ringtone from iPhone however which one should you use depends on the method by which this ringtone was downloaded to the device... Let us recall what these methods are:
How to download ringtone (melody) to iPhone?
1. Open the GarageBand app (download link);
2. Go to the section Recent... Press and hold your finger on any of the created projects (if there are none, then create);
3. In the appeared context menu click on the arrow;
5. Select a section Ringtone;
6. Go to the menu Your ringtones;
7. Press the button Edit;
8. Click the "-" icon or swipe from right to left;
9. Click Delete;
10. The ringtone will be removed from the application and along the way Settings → Sounds, tactile signals → Ringtone.
How to remove ringtone from iPhone downloaded via iTunes or third party alternatives (iTools, iFunBox)
These programs will help you easily remove the downloaded ringtone from iPhone if:
- It is uploaded on its own via iTunes or analogs, for example.
- It was removed in iTunes, but is still present in the device memory;
- The ringtone is displayed inactive (grayed out) in iTunes;
- In cases where iTunes cannot find the ringtone, however, it is set as a ringtone.
On this moment There are several methods for deleting ringtones from iPhone, each of which depends on how exactly these ringtones were loaded into the device earlier. When you downloaded ringtones via iTunes, you can delete such a ringtone from the iPhone using the same iTunes.
In the case when you downloaded the melody to your phone in other ways, for example, by a third-party file manager in the iPhone with a jail, then iTunes will not be able to delete your melody in this case. At the moment, we will tell you in more detail about each option:
Note how the downloaded ringtones might look like in Apple settings iPhone.
How to remove ringtone from iPhone using iTunes
When you downloaded ringtones using standard method, namely, through the iTunes program, then we delete such melodies in the same place. Let's suppose that you were presented with an iPhone, and it already contains melodies that do not suit you. To remove them, you need a computer with the supplied iTunes program.
1. Launch iTunes
2. Connect your iPhone to your computer using the provided cable
3. In the "Devices" section, you need to select the iPhone, go to the "Overview" tab and check - Process music and video manually.
5. You will see a window with the following content: “Do you really want to sync sounds? All sounds that are on the device will be replaced with sounds from the iTunes library. ". Press the button "Synchronize sounds"
6. Now click "Apply" at the bottom of iTunes
After synchronization in automatic mode ringtones will be deleted from your iPhone. In the considered method, the iTunes program did not contain melodies. In the event that you already had ringtones in iTunes, and you threw them into the gadget, then in order to delete them, you must mark "Synchronize sounds" and click "Apply".
i-Fun Box will delete ringtone from iPhone phone
If you loaded the ringtones into the device without using the iTunes program, then you cannot delete them using the first method. If ringtones were loaded via i-Fun Box, or another file manager for iPhone, then you can delete them with the same i-Fun Box with file system.
In order to delete ringtones, download the iFun Box and go to the "Ringtones" section, then select the unnecessary ringtone, right-click on it and press "Delete". After it is removed from the iFun Box, it will automatically be removed from your iPhone. We strongly discourage you from deleting the standard system ringtones.
Using the above instructions, you can delete melodies not only from iPhone phones but also with iPad tablets where there are also unnecessary ringtones.
