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By default, when people call you on your smartphone the ringtone sounds the same regardless of who it is that’s calling you.
And that can be a problem if your phone starts ringing while it’s sitting on a table on the other side of the room.
The caller could well be someone you really want to talk to, but it could also be a call you’d rather skip.
Unfortunately, the only way to find out is to stop what you’re doing and go pick up the phone.
Well, there’s an easy fix or this problem…
Just give each of the contacts you really want to talk to their own custom ringtone!
This is quite easy to do on both iPhones and Androids. Just follow the steps below for the type of phone you use.
If you have an iPhone:
1 – Open the Contacts app.
2 – Select a contact you want to assign a custom ringtone for.
3 – Tap Edit.
4 – Tap Ringtone.
5 – Select the ringtone you want to hear every time this person calls your phone.
6 – Tap Done.
If you have an Android phone:
Note: The steps required to set custom ringtones on Android phones can vary a bit depending on the brand and model of the phone, but they should at least be pretty close to what you see below. Just use these steps as a general guide…
1 – Open the Contacts app.
2 – Select a contact you want to assign a custom ringtone for.
3 – Tap the Menu icon in the top-right corner of the screen (it looks like three vertical dots).
4 – Tap Set ringtone.
5 – Select the ringtone you want to hear every time this person calls your phone.
6 – Tap OK.
That’s all there is to it. From now on when one of your most important contacts rings you up you’ll be able to tell right away who’s calling without even having to look at your phone (after you memorize everyone’s custom ringtone of course).
If the phone rings with the default ringtone that you always heard before you’ll know the caller isn’t someone you’ve assigned a custom ringtone for.
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