Skype

Skype

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About this app

SKYPE WITH MICROSOFT BING, POWERED BY GPT-4
Ask Bing 1:1 or in any group chat:
- Help me plan a trip to Europe this summer
- Write a dad joke and translate it into any language
- Ask for movie recommendations
- Unleash your creativity
Skype is now integrated with Bing, cutting-edge AI-powered copilot, the latest generative language model from OpenAI that you can use for free. With ChatGPT in Skype, you don’t need any technical knowledge, just ask a question like you would a friend.
Bonus points: Try asking ChatGPT in your native language and find the most interesting question to ask!

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

ADD A SECOND NUMBER TO YOUR PHONE
Need more privacy? Get a second phone number. With private Skype Number, you can keep your personal and business life separate and enjoy affordable calling to landlines and mobiles around the world.

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

Skype-to-Skype calls are free. Operator data charges may apply. We recommend using an unlimited data plan or WiFi connection.

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• Microsoft Services Agreement: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=530144
• EU Contract Summary: https://go.skype.com/eu.contract.summary

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.
• Photo Library - 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 being used.
• Siri - This allows Siri to make calls in Skype.
• Calendar - Access to the calendar is so that calls can be scheduled and added to the calendar.
• Motion Usage - Motion usage is used so that Skype can detect when your device is rotated, so that Skype can orientate the camera correctly.

Ratings and reviews

Skype for Android is buggy, but works somehow. However, this app is not useful without a desktop version. The desktop version is extremely buggy and unstable. Though skype is a commercial product, there is absolutely no support. All bug reports go unanswered and unprocessed. Information on problems is impossible to find. It's totally incomprehensible how Microsoft can't get an app working, that is basically a web page with a packaged browser.

Thank you for giving the status bar and the navigation bar the proper background-colors to match the application. So many app-developers just don't care and leave them black throughout the entire app which always makes the app look atrocious. There is a little bug with the background-color of the status bar though: when going into a chat it changes to grey just like it should. But when going back out it stays grey even though it should change back to blue. Other than that, good job👍

Slow to load text chats, even slower to load media, for 75% of my contacts it refuses to download anything at all, unless it's got a thumbnail. Pictures are working fine (albeit with ridiculously slow loading speeds), voice is working sometimes, videos are working seldomly, on a good day they might get lucky. For anything else you'd better use a file sharing service. Scrolling back further than ~50 messages causes the app to jump around uncontrollably, needing a force close to regain control....

What's new

- Preview an image received when you long press a notification
- Search bar in the languages list in Skype Translator
- Bug fixes and stability improvements

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