While some manufacturers offer the option, Android lacks built-in support for per-SIM ringtones.
In the newest Android Canary release, we’re seeing early signs of Google working on SIM-specific ringtones.
It’s possible this could arrive in Android 17, but that’s far from certain at this point.
Dual-SIM smartphones have been around for the better part of forever, but Android’s still working to enhance the multi-SIM experience for users, with improvements like the split signal bar only showing up last year. One dual-SIM upgrade users have been craving is a way to assign a different ringtone for each of your lines, and now it looks like Android could finally be getting ready to give us just that.
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The ability to set a different ringtone for each of your SIMs is already a feature offered by certain manufacturers, like Motorola, but Android has lacked similar support at the system level. At least, so far it hasn’t had any option like this, but with this week’s release of Android Canary 2604, we’ve got our first hint of it on the way.
