See the following instructions for adding ringtones to an iOS device from a Mac running Catalina. Please note the following: 1. You cannot use the command VO + comma/period to drag and drop. 2. You do not drop the ringtone you want to add in the “General” area.
Follow the instructions below exactly as written, and you should be successful. HTH. - Brad - Moving a Ringtone to an iOS Device from a Mac Running Catalina Adding a custom ringtone to an iOS device from a Mac running Catalina, is possible using VoiceOver, albeit a little challenging as it requires drag and drop. After creating your ringtone, follow these steps to add it to your iPhone from a Mac running Catalina: 1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac with the USB charging cable. 2. On your Mac, open a Finder window to the folder location where the custom ring-tone resides. 3. Open a second Finder window )or tab), where you can select your iPhone from the Sidebar. 4. Return to the Finder window where the custom ringtone resides. 5. Interact with the table or browser, and using VO, navigate to the ringtone you wish to move to the iOS device. 6. Once you are at the tone, press VO-cmd-f5 to route the mouse to the VO location. Note: You may need to include the fn key in order for the F-keys to perform as normal F-keys. 7. Press VO-cmd-shift-space to invoke the mouse-down action. 8. Navigate to the iPhone window. 9. Navigate to the item that announces the name of your iPhone, how much space is used and its charge level. On mine, it's the item that's one VO-right after the edit field with my iPhone name in it. 10. Press VO-cmd-shift-f5 to route the mouse to the VO location. 11. Press VO-cmd-shift-space to toggle the mouse-up action. This drops the tone and will immediately copy it to your iPhone. It will show up in the tones section of Sounds & Haptics for your use. On Oct 28, 2020, at 02:30, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> wrote: hey all, Having a very frustrating and aggravating problem with my new iPhone 12. I have a couple of custom ringtones that I created and I'm trying to send them to my phone. Of course with the old iTunes, it was a lot easier, you could just put it in the automatically add to iTunes folder and sync it to the phone and you were done. With Catalina, apparently you have to drag the ringtone into the general area of the iPhone on the side bar but the problem is, the voice-over drag commands do not work here and well, it doesn't really work at all. Was going to have a look at the program iMazing but I absolutely will not pay $69 Australian for it and when I used the trial version, I couldn't really work out what to do anyway. Has anyone got any ideas? I'm ripping my own hair out. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/3B248D0C-FC60-46C6-8476-92E99F62607F%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/E7574C10-B27B-4FA4-A135-12821707CD83%40swbell.net.
