It may sound like dark sorcery, but it's a unproblematic setting on most phones.

Custom text bulletin tones might seem similar a modest feature, but they tin can be immensely useful. A custom text message tone can tell us to reply to one notification among a bounding main of default notification tones. A gunshot tin mean the boss is texting you after hoursover again and you tin can ignore him, while a whip crack ways your wife is texting yous, and you should really bank check information technology right at present. Whether yous're using Google Messages — the default SMS app on most phones — a manufacturer version like the Samsung Messages app, or 1 of our favorite third-party SMS texting apps similar Textra or Pulse, setting a custom text tone for a contact or chat is piece of cake to exercise. However, you might find the setting in different places, depending on your app or phone.

How to set custom text tones on Google Messages

Google Letters is the standard messaging app on a large portion of Android phones these days, and is available for costless on Google Play if your phone didn't have information technology pre-installed. Google Messages uses the "common" method for custom conversation notifications on phones running Android Oreo and up.

  1. Tap theConversation yous wish to set a custom notification for.
  2. Tap thethree-dot menu icon in the top correct corner of the screen.
  3. TapDetails.
  4. TapNotifications.
  5. TapSound.
  6. Tap yourdesired tone.

  7. Tap theback arrow, orOK orSave if those options appear with your ringtone picking menu.

How to set custom text tones on Samsung Messages

Samsung Messages got a new look last year with One UI, but the bones layout should be the same on all modern Samsung devices, whether they're still on Android Oreo or running Android 10.

  1. Tap theChat you wish to set a custom notification for.
  2. Tap the3-dot menu icon in the height right corner of the screen.
  3. Tap thetoggle next to Custom notifications.
  4. Tap the textCustom Notifications.
  5. TapSound.
  6. Tap yourdesired tone.
  7. Tap theback arrow in peak left corner of the screen.

If you don't find chat-specific text tones using these menus on a Samsung phone running Android Nougat or an fifty-fifty older version, bank check the desired contact entry in the Samsung Contacts app.

How to set custom text tones on Pulse SMS

  1. Tap theConversation you wish to set a custom notification for.
  2. Tap thethree-dot carte icon in the top right corner of the screen.
  3. TapConversation settings.
  4. TapConversation Notification Customization.
  5. TapSound.
  6. Tap yourdesired tone.
  7. Tap theback arrow, orOK orSave if those options appear with your ringtone picking menu.
  1. Tap theConversation you wish to gear up a custom notification for.
  2. Tap thedownward-pointing carat in the pinnacle correct corner of the screen.
  3. TapCustomize this conversation.
  4. TapNotifications.
  5. TapNotification Sound.
  6. Tap yourdesired tone.
  7. TapOK.

How to fix custom text tones on Mood Messenger

  1. Tap theConversation you lot wish to set up a custom notification for.
  2. Tap thethree-dot carte du jour icon in the pinnacle right corner of the screen.
  3. TapOptions.
  4. Under Notifications & Sounds, tapCurrent tone.
  5. At the pinnacle of the sound picking menu are three icons. Tap thebell icon to apply the system notification picker to select a text tone. You can besides tap the microphone icon to record a custom phrase every bit the text tone or the folder icon to select a ringtone through your file manager.
  6. Tap yourdesired tone.
  7. TapOK.

Your turn

Whether y'all stick with the standard messaging app your Android telephone came with or branch out with a tertiary-political party client, setting custom text tones for your most-used contacts tin can be a modest but very helpful tool —WHIP-Crevice! — in helping avoid distractions while you try to piece of work. After all, no one needs a needy —WHIP-Fissure! — roommate wasting your fourth dimension during a lab.

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