Skype

Skype

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About this app

Skype – Connect, Create, Talk & Discover, now with Microsoft Copilot

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SKYPE WITH ANYONE FOR FREE
Skype is the best way to stay connected with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Whether you want to talk to your family, friends or colleagues. You can make free video calls with up to 100 people, send and receive text messages, use ChatGPT with others, send voice messages, emojis, share your screen to show what you’re working on.

PERSONALIZED NEWS
With Skype's Channels you can get free personalized news. Stay informed, productive, entertained, and inspired with up-to-date news.

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Access Permissions:
All permissions are optional and require consent (you can continue using Skype without granting these permissions, but certain features may not be available).

• Contacts - Skype can sync and upload your device contacts to Microsoft's servers so that you can easily find and connect with your contacts that already use Skype.
• Microphone - The microphone is needed for people to hear you during audio or video calls or for you to record audio messages.
• Camera - The camera is needed for people to see you during video calls, or for you to be able to take photos or videos whilst you’re using Skype.
• Location - You can share your location with other users or use your location to help find relevant places near you.
• External Storage - Storage is needed to be able to store photos or to share your photos with others you may chat with.
• Notifications - Notifications allow users to know when messages or calls are received even when Skype is not actively used.
• Read Phone state - Access to phone state allows you to place a call on hold when a regular phone call is in progress.
• System Alert Window - This setting allows Skype screensharing, which requires access to all information on the screen or played on the device whilst you record or broadcast content.

Ratings and reviews

Probably the most buggy chat app I have ever used. Almost impressively bad. Messages don't load or send sometimes. Half the screen being blank space. Messages somehow overlapping each other into one line like gibberish. Taking several seconds to simply open up. The send message bar vanishing. Being unable to scroll down past the few most recent messages. If it I wasn't being made to use this app to contact specific people, I would avoid it like the plague.

Becoming more unusable every update. Reinstalls have not fixed it. Takes roughly 30 seconds to load the app on my S24. Then takes another 10 - 15 seconds to open a chat. Then takes another 10 - 15 seconds to open the keyboard. On top of visual glitches where the messages are cut off briefly after closing the keyboard. And certain words don't appear to fit properly causing the last letter to get moved to a second line. It's ridiculous that I get a better experience on my old S8 than on my S24.

I use this app daily and wanted to upgrade to the premium subscription. However, every time I try to verify my caller ID with my phone number, it says a verification code was sent, but I haven't received it after multiple attempts. I even tried with a friend's phone, and the issue persists. Please give me a way where I can get a response from you.

What's new

- Sign in faster: Already signed into another Microsoft app? No need to re-enter your password in Skype.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Visit https://go.skype.com/whatsnew for more details.