Skype for iPhone
By Skype Communications S.a.r.l
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Description
Introducing the brand new Skype for iPhone – simpler than ever with an even more powerful search.
Stay in touch with free video calls, voice calls and messaging on Skype.
Features:
· Find all of your friends and family in an instant - search for friends, groups, conversations or new contacts on Skype. With over 300 million people using Skype, you’re bound to bump into someone you know.
· Call your world for free - Free voice and video calls let you talk to your heart’s content with all your friends and family on Skype.
· Make low cost calls to mobiles and landlines - Keep in touch with anyone even if they’re not on Skype, with low cost calls to mobiles and landlines.
· Instantly get in touch - No matter where you are, your friends are always available with free instant messaging.
· Share moments - Send photos, record and send video messages, share your location or share web content with the people who matter most.
· Available for Apple Watch - see your notifications and chat on your Apple Watch so you’re always part of the conversation.
· Skype is available everywhere - on smartphones, tablets, Macs, PCs, and even TVs. Whatever your friends or family use, Skype is there. Simple.
Learn more at Skype.com
System requirements:
• iOS 7.0 or above (If you are using iOS 6 or earlier, you can download the last compatible version by tapping install/update and following the prompt to download.) The Apple Watch features require iOS 8.2 and of course, an Apple Watch.
What's New in Version 6.5
Add fun to your video messages by adding video filters
Get spooky with new ghostly Halloween video message filters and emoticons… Mwahahaha!
New 3D Touch actions:
- Reveal quick-start actions directly from the Skype icon on your home screen.
- Press on a Recent conversation to Peek the latest IMs or a live video call.
- Force Touch shared locations, photos, contacts and URLs to Peek the content.
Improved conversation and contact management:
- Hide conversations from your Recent list with a swipe.
- Completely delete a conversation's history from the chat menu or Recent list.
- Easily share Skype contacts.
General improvements
iPhone Screenshot
Apple Watch
Customer Reviews
Still a good app, but very annoyed.
Skype is a very good app to use, I pretty much use it everyday! However, no matter how my internet connection can be, either top-notch quality or low quality the call is, A LOT of my calls just freeze up and unusually ends it. Even the person on the other end of my calls is very annoyed. Tried another call: 5 minutes later it ends again without the both of us ending it. And again and again and again this has been going on for the past month or so. I'm still keeping this rating a 3 out of 5 since I basically use it all the time as mentioned in the beginning of this review. I would be much appreciated if this teeeeny technical issue is fixed. Thank you! 😄
A must have, even with some minor bugs and flaws
I've been using Skype for iOS since I got my first iPhone in 2010 and it's been getting better since then. For me it's one of those apps like whatsapp that I simply gotta have. However, there are some issues that lowered a star in my rating, that for a company of the size of Skype are almost unacceptable: the way you can connect with your phone's contacts is way too outdated (you have to type and add contacts instead of simply synchronizing them) and some calls are just randomly awful (regardless of your internet connection speed).
Still, Skype is one my favorite apps!
PLEASE FIX THESE TWO THINGS!
I love the skype app. It does what I need it to do, and usually it's pretty reliable. But I have two major issues with it.
1) On the desktop version of Skype you are able to change a contact name to a nickname. Once you do the iOS app refreshes the name to the nickname. *But this only works inside the app*. Please, change this feature to include the notifications as well. There's no use for the nicknames if on my lock screen or notification bar the name the person has entered on their end pops up even after I've changed their nickname. That would make this app so much better for me.
2) Every time I call for more than 10 mins Skype calls have just ended spontaneously. Once it starts happening it doesn't stop. This call, after 30 mins, the following call after 5 minutes, then the following 1 hour or so. I hope this bug can be fixed as well.
If they are I will gladly star 5
Offers Apple Watch App for iPhone- Free
- Category: Social Networking
- Updated: Oct 28, 2015
- Version: 6.5
- Size: 81.6 MB
- Apple Watch: Yes
- Languages: English, Bokmål, Norwegian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Seller: Skype Communications S.a.r.l
- © (c) 2003 - 2015 Skype Limited, Patents Pending. Skype, associated trade marks and logos and the "S" symbol are trade marks of Skype Limited
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Top In-App Purchases
- "Skype Credit" top-up$4.99