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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1924543" data-attributes="member: 131855">There may not be a way to change those tones just yet if what I have found so far is any indication. After reading your last post here is what I have figured out from a bit of searching and a brief experiment.1. As you discovered Messages does not read files in the your 0sounds folder and use them for alerts. 2. Messages does use the default iPhone ringtones as alert sounds. It doesn't recognize ringtones you create and add to the location that used to be used for storing custom ringtones. 3. It doesn't recognize sound files in .aif, AAC, or m4r (ringtone) format.4. I thought I could find them by looking at the contents of the Messages app itself. This used to be a common place for resources in some apps. If the sounds are there they are well hidden.MacMost hast a video on adding custom sounds and demonstrate it for system files and Mail essentially using the method that you used. as you've discovered that doesn't work with Message sounds. They suspect that the alerts for Messages and Reminders is handled through Notifications in macOS and I suspect they are right. At this point they haven't found a workaround.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1924543, member: 131855"] There may not be a way to change those tones just yet if what I have found so far is any indication. After reading your last post here is what I have figured out from a bit of searching and a brief experiment. 1. As you discovered Messages does not read files in the your 0sounds folder and use them for alerts. 2. Messages does use the default iPhone ringtones as alert sounds. It doesn't recognize ringtones you create and add to the location that used to be used for storing custom ringtones. 3. It doesn't recognize sound files in .aif, AAC, or m4r (ringtone) format. 4. I thought I could find them by looking at the contents of the Messages app itself. This used to be a common place for resources in some apps. If the sounds are there they are well hidden. MacMost hast a video on adding custom sounds and demonstrate it for system files and Mail essentially using the method that you used. as you've discovered that doesn't work with Message sounds. They suspect that the alerts for Messages and Reminders is handled through Notifications in macOS and I suspect they are right. At this point they haven't found a workaround. [/QUOTE]

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