Rita El Khoury/Android Authority
TL;DR
- While some manufacturers offer the option, Android lacks built-in support for per-SIM ringtones.
- In the latest Android Canary release, we’re seeing early signs of Google working on SIM-specific ringtones.
- It’s possible that it could come to Android 17, but that’s not certain at this point.
Dual-SIM smartphones have been around forever, but Android is still working to enhance the multi-SIM experience for users, with improvements like split signal bars only appearing last year. A dual-SIM upgrade user has been yearning to assign a different ringtone to each of their lines, and now it looks like Android is finally getting ready to give us that.
The ability to set a different ringtone for each of your SIMs is a feature already offered by some manufacturers motorolaBut Android lacks similar support at the system level. At least, there was no such option until now, but with the release of Android Canary 2604 this week, we got the first hint about it.
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None of this functionality is live yet – not even in the new Canary release – but the presence of these text strings gives us an idea of what Google is working on:
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Allows the user to select and set a unique ringtone for a specific SIM card.
Ringtone Even without seeing a sophisticated UI, that “unique” and “distinctive” language clearly conveys that we’re looking for a way to give each of our Sims their own ringtone. Presumably, this applies to eSIM as well as physical SIM cards.
But what’s more difficult to talk about with any certainty right now is Google’s timetable for actually delivering this option. If it were working in Canary, we’d probably be ready to expect it to debut in Android 17 – but as things stand right now, we’re only speculating.
Considering how many users of dual-SIM phones have been yearning for this kind of support – and for so long – we really hope Google makes it a priority to implement it as soon as possible.
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