![]() ![]() You can grab the latest version of Skype (6.25) here or via Updates in your App Store app. The new features are currently limited to the consumer version of Skype, though Skype for Business users are promised the same convenient functionality by the end of October. ![]() The new update also means that incoming Skype calls will appear on your display just like regular iPhone calls, with a little note beneath the name just so you’re absolutely sure which service it is that you’re using. To make the process as slick and speedy as possible, go into Settings on your iPhone or iPad, tap on Siri, and then on “Access on Lock Screen,” and “Allow ‘Hey Siri.'” “This means it’s easier to initiate a Skype video call, audio call, or even a Skype IM, without having to go into the app first.” “Your Skype contacts are closer than ever now that you can store them right in your iOS device,” the Microsoft-owned company said in a post announcing the new feature. That’s right, all that time and energy usually spent tapping on the screen to open the app, followed by subsequent taps to select the contact and initiate the call, can now be a thing of the past. It means that all you have to do to call, say, Joe Blow, is tell your virtual assistant to “call Joe Blow.” Siri might ask you to check it has the right contact, but once that’s done it’ll place the call. Gdolgikh/Skype just got a whole lot easier to use on the iPhone and iPad thanks to an update rolled out for the communication app on Wednesday.
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