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"Always On" frightens me. Receiving a Skype call these days involves answering it on my laptop, then finding and silencing all my iPads and other mobile device
by jasonkester 14y ago
"Always On" frightens me. Receiving a Skype call these days involves answering it on my laptop, then finding and silencing all my iPads and other mobile devices that continue to ring at me obnoxiously. "Hang on a second while I... [hop hop hop on one foot while headphoned to the laptop and slowly dragging it off the table while trying to grab that backpack in the corner witn my toes]... Got it. Anyway, what were you saying?"
The iOS version of Skype has no "quit" option at all. If you ever open it for any reason, it'll dingle at you incessantly from there on out until you hard reboot the device. It's my current top annoyance with Skype.
So when they start announcing that annoyance as the big feature of their new version, it doesn't exactly get me excited to try it.
- thejosh 14y agoYeah, my friends love the constant ONLINE! OFFLINE! ONLINE! OFFLINE! When I go in and out of wifi range on my iPhone. Have had to set it to appear offline...
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- moms_computer 14y ago> The iOS version of Skype has no "quit" option at all. Double-press the iPhone button, find Skype icon, tap and hold until it stars to wobble, tap (x). Or am I missing something?
- krichman 14y agoThat's a terrible user experience, especially for something that could be a setting.
- gurkendoktor 14y agoIt is a setting, but it is in the "Settings" app - not inside the app.
- krichman 14y agoThe iOS app also drains my battery by being always on. It was so irritating I deleted it entirely.
- tomflack 14y agoThere is a "sign out" option in iOS skype which does what you're after. http://i.imgur.com/uOn3Q.png http://i.imgur.com/uOn3Q.png
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- gurkendoktor 14y ago> The iOS version of Skype has no "quit" option at all. You're lucky that you regularly receive calls. It seems that Skype grabs a few MB of memory when in the background, which made a big difference on my iPad 1. Suddenly people who have OCD about their iOS multitasking dock don't seem paranoid anymore...