{"id":68803,"date":"2026-04-16T02:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/android-may-finally-support-unique-ringtones-for-each-sim-card\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:57:45","slug":"android-may-finally-support-unique-ringtones-for-each-sim-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/android-may-finally-support-unique-ringtones-for-each-sim-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Android may finally support unique ringtones for each SIM card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" data-content-wrapper=\"true\">\n<div class=\"e_f\">\n<div class=\"e_7s\" style=\"max-width:1920px\"><picture class=\"e_Vg\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;aspect-ratio:1920 \/ 1080\"><source sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled.jpg.webp 1920w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled-1536w-864h.jpg.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled-675w-380h.jpg.webp 675w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled-64w-36h.jpg.webp 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled-1000w-563h.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled-300w-170h.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled-1280w-720h.jpg.webp 1280w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/honor-90-emerald-green-sim-card-tray-ejected-scaled-840w-472h.jpg.webp 840w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"e_nv e_8s\">\n<p>Rita El Khoury\/Android Authority<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-container-type=\"content\" class=\"e_Ui e_e e_P\">\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While some manufacturers offer the option, Android lacks built-in support for per-SIM ringtones.<\/li>\n<li>In the latest Android Canary release, we&#8217;re seeing early signs of Google working on SIM-specific ringtones.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s possible that it could come to Android 17, but that&#8217;s not certain at this point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_P\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_P\">\n<p>The ability to set a different ringtone for each of your SIMs is a feature already offered by some manufacturers <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en-emea.support.motorola.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/169189\/~\/set-ringtones\">motorola<\/a>But 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_Dk e_Ck\" data-container-type=\"content\">\n<div class=\"e_e e_P\">\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t want to miss the best of <em>Android Authority<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_am\"><picture class=\"e_em e_fm e_Vg\" style=\"padding-top:31.51%;aspect-ratio:676 \/ 213\"><source sizes=\"9.375rem\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png.webp 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png.webp 64w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><img class=\"e_Wg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Lite@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Lite@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><\/picture><picture class=\"e_em e_Vg\" style=\"padding-top:31.51%;aspect-ratio:676 \/ 213\"><source sizes=\"9.375rem\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png.webp 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png.webp 64w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><img class=\"e_Wg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"Google Preferred Source Badge Dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_P\">\n<p>None of this functionality is live yet \u2013 not even in the new Canary release \u2013 but the presence of these text strings gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat Google is working on:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_3k e_e\">\n<p>code<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"e_7k e_jf e_kf\">copy text<\/button><\/p>\n<pre class=\"e_5k e_c\"><code class=\"e_6k\"><code><string name=\"&quot;sim_ringtone_pref_purpose&quot;\">Allows the user to select and set a unique ringtone for a specific SIM card.<\/string>\n<string name=\"&quot;sim_ringtone_title&quot;\">Ringtone<\/string><\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_P\">\n<p>Even without seeing a sophisticated UI, that &#8220;unique&#8221; and &#8220;distinctive&#8221; language clearly conveys that we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_P\">\n<p>But what&#8217;s more difficult to talk about with any certainty right now is Google&#8217;s timetable for actually delivering this option. If it were working in Canary, we&#8217;d probably be ready to expect it to debut in Android 17 \u2013 but as things stand right now, we&#8217;re only speculating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"e_e e_P\">\n<p>Considering how many users of dual-SIM phones have been yearning for this kind of support \u2013 and for so long \u2013 we really hope Google makes it a priority to implement it as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u26a0\ufe0f<\/strong> One <strong>tearing apk<\/strong> Helps to predict future features of a service based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to the public release.<\/p>\n<div data-container-type=\"content\">\n<div class=\"e_uc e_P\">\n<p>Thank you for being a part of our community. Please read our comment policy before posting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;re seeing early signs of Google working on SIM-specific ringtones. It&#8217;s possible that it could come to Android 17, but that&#8217;s not certain at this point. Dual-SIM smartphones have been around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1601,2032,1906,17591,19402,2678,1476],"class_list":{"0":"post-68803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-card","10":"tag-finally","11":"tag-ringtones","12":"tag-sim","13":"tag-support","14":"tag-unique"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68805,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68803\/revisions\/68805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}