Reactions: to be notified when someone reacts to your messages.

Contact comes online notification: to be notified when a contact is online.

Chat Notifications: to mute chats only (calls will still come through).

Select Notifications, then turn the listed notification types on or off.

But as is the case with many Windows Phone apps (see Microsoft's own Facebook app), if you want to make any account changes, you'll have to use a Web page on your phone's browser instead of staying in the app. To make changes to your Skype account or buy credits, the app opens a Web page in you phone's browser, but in the iOS and Android versions, you can do both without leaving the app.įor an app built by Microsoft for the company's own mobile operating system, I was hoping that Skype for Windows Phone would have at least the same features found on the other mobile apps. Credits allow you to make voice calls to landlines and mobile phones in the app (voice and video calls to other Skype users and messages are free). For instance, you can view your Skype profile in the app, but you cannot manage your account or purchase Skype credits. Though the Windows Phone version of Skype gets a boost with group chat, it's missing features found in the other mobile Skype apps. However, you can't add additional people to a video or voice call, a feature that's only available on Skype's Windows and Mac apps. Once you start a chat with one person, you can tap the plus sign next to the text box to add participants from your contact list.

You can switch the camera or turn off the video altogether, plus you can mute your microphone.Ī notable feature of Skype on Windows Phone, that doesn't exist on the Android and iOS apps, is group chat. The app then launches your front-facing camera and shows the other person's video feed full-screen, with your video feed in a smaller window on the right. Starting a video call is a tedious process that involves swiping over to your contact list, shown in the app as 'People,' tapping on a person's name, then tapping the video camera button that appears. Unfortunately, you can't easily initiate the most-used feature of Skype: video calling. On that main screen, you can quickly make a voice call or start a new chat.

Instant message, voice calls, and video chatĪfter you sign in, you see your most recent Skype activity first, including phone calls and chats. It's worth noting you can't link your Skype and Microsoft accounts on any of the mobile apps, either, but I was hoping Microsoft would put a little more thought into the app it built for its own mobile platform. It's disappointing that there's no way to sign in with the Microsoft account that you must have set up on your phone in order to have downloaded the app in the first place.

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