Every month or so I try to send my wife a Skype message or do a Skype call and it often does nothing- no ping, ring or notification.I still have an irrational hope that Skype will not crater, despite that fact that it consistently finds some way to disappoint: You can download Skype for iPhone and Skype for iPadfrom the Apple App Store. Presumably because of their angular shape. Bots are now better differentiated from your contacts in the contacts list. Now you can invite your friends to Skype directly from the contacts list: Just tap “Add Contact” (“+”) and then choose the new “Invite friends to Skype” link.īots. You can now pay for Skype Credit in Israeli Shekels. Now, you can store your store your Skype contacts in the device ’s contacts list. Who knows? Maybe someday SMS Relay will even work from iPhone. That’s a neat step towards a more elegant future. Now, you can answer Skype calls from your lock screen, just like a regular phone call. This is why I never use this feature on my iPhone. Well, you could if Siri was worth a damn. You can now use Siri commands to quickly start a Skype call. And not something perhaps more befitting the amount of change we see here. Key among them: Support for Siri and the ability to answer Skype calls above the lock screen.įurther curious, the version number has been bumped … to 6.25.1. There’s no official announcement yet, but I see this morning that Skype for iPhone and iPad has received a fairly major update, with numerous new features.

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