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“Skype update on Win mobile 10”

written by Wooten427 on 01/09/2016

Windows is working on consolidating and creating common apps for all devices, and Skype has been recently updated to accommodate this requirement.

After the update the app on the mobile device has been extremely difficult to use. It has lost the intuitive navigation from the previous Win8 era.

It is quite clear that the app has been intended for a large screen rather than a phone and that too mostly for chat rather than phone calls. with the recent update, it has become really difficult to make phone calls to contacts.

the steps involved are:
- open Skype app (yes it takes longer to open now)
- touch top left to open up menu
- touch contacts
- this opens up contact and you can select which contact to call
- even favourite contacts appear as list, rather than icons/menus
- then call the number/contact

Compared to earlier:
- Open Skype
- swipe right or left to reach favourite
- call the number/contact

Plus there are a number of defects as well. the contacts list does not show many contacts that are already in the phone (earlier version used to show all). the only option to call these is to:
- Open up people app
- Find and edit the contact
- Copy the number to clipboard
- Then open the Skype app
- open the dialer
- Change country to the required country
- Paste the number and dial.

AAAAGGHHHHH!
even a graduate would have developed a better working app.