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.

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

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• Microsoft Services Agreement: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=530144
• EU Contract Summary: https://go.skype.com/eu.contract.summary
• Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2259814

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

2022 Currently, glitchy. If I'm invisible on one os, I should be invisible across all os, no matter where I check in. Not the case as yet. Also, freezing and not letting calls through. 11.01.2024 Update 2 of the Skype apps are glitching, freezing, not notifying of calls/messages, either updating w/o my permission or not updating my status when I update my status. Not good for an app to be failing the way it is when it used to be the ultimate in face time before FaceTime.

MS makes it clear they want OUT of Skype all together. They have updated - it attempts to auto sign the user in, BUT if the user changed their MS password, Skype won't ask for it but instead just sends the user an error message - over - and over - and over, effectively locking the user out. OH! And by the way, if you are on active duty and NEED Skype for calling home, FORGET IT, because since the last updates, you can't get the system to verify your phone because it won't call overseas!

Privacy abusing software. By default it doesn't use most secure settings. Every once in a while, secure configurations are changed, and e.g. random people can contact you and add you to random groups. The security and privacy features are sometimes missing or misleading, e.g. using double negatives to mislead you into misconfiguring the settings. Skype was once great. Now it's I'm just another piece of jusk software, with absolutely unnecessary bloat features and nalware-type behavior.

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.