iPad iPad Air and Skype

Have you enabled push notifications?

Settings > Notification Center > Skype

Turn on all options.

haruhiko said:

Have you enabled push notifications?

Settings > Notification Center > Skype

Turn on all options.

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If I don't have the Push Notiifcations on, is that also the reason why cant I see a new contact request to add, my friend says he has sent me a contact request umpteen number of times and I just don't bloody see it !! I wonder why ?

As Haruhiko said, it is likely a notification setting as far as seeing the incoming calls while the device is in sleep mode. Also, make sure that in the Skype settings, you are set to Never log out under profile.

For contact requests - I don't believe there is a way to see these as individual notifications; only through the Skype app itself once opened.

Glad you found the notification setting but, the sound issue on your iPhone 4S is a weird one...

Is it possible that you hit the speaker/earpiece button within Skype? If so, it may be set to use headset only. If nothing else - you could test it by doing a power off/on on the iPhone 4S and retry with a headset plugged in.

ET iPhone Home said:

It doesn't seem Skype works too well with the iPad Air. Can someone recommend a similar app?

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Google Hangouts.

ET iPhone Home said:

It doesn't seem Skype works too well with the iPad Air. Can someone recommend a similar app?

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Use FaceTime!

ET iPhone Home said:

It doesn't seem Skype works too well with the iPad Air. Can someone recommend a similar app?

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Skype doesn't work well with any iOS device. It's a really poor experience. If you use it a lot on another device and then pick up your idevice the app literally freezes for minutes as it syncs and downloads your message history. It's horrible and no way to disable syncing.

If you use skype just for phone calls and not chat and video you can use google voice for phone calls. Google hang outs works too but is a bit clunky.

Tzuten said:

Skype doesn't work well with any iOS device. It's a really poor experience. If you use it a lot on another device and then pick up your idevice the app literally freezes for minutes as it syncs and downloads your message history. It's horrible and no way to disable syncing.

If you use skype just for phone calls and not chat and video you can use google voice for phone calls. Google hang outs works too but is a bit clunky.

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Don't know what you are talking about, I skype every day in the US and to oversea, works great on video with comcast or with ATT LTE

I am useing the same account on my MBP, Ipad mini and my iphone 5S
its ring on all of them and I pick up the one I want,

AttilaTheHun said:

Don't know what you are talking about, I skype every day in the US and to oversea, works great on video with comcast or with ATT LTE

I am useing the same account on my MBP, Ipad mini and my iphone 5S
its ring on all of them and I pick up the one I want,

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The problem is I use skype a lot on my MacBook. So there is a lot of conversation history. When I load up skype on my iPhone 5 and select to chat with contacts that there is a lot of history on my MacBook it will freeze the app as it is downloading the history of chat. This is extremely annoying.

The relatively new Google+ Hangouts allows you to easily make phone calls via wifi using your Google Voice number. I use it for wifi calling from my iPod Touch and it works great. Very good voice quality in both directions. I've never tried Skype.

Incoming Skype Calls not ringing on my iPad Air

Thanks to advice above managed to solve problem in three steps. One (hardware) was a new discovery for me:

SOFTWARE
- Settings
- Notification Center (made sure Skype was showing under 'INCLUDE' - see advice from others)
- Sykpe - made sure Sounds-slider was showing green = ON

HARDWARE
- On right-hand side at top of iPad Air there are two press-buttons for volume and mute
- Above them is a very small slide-button that I had ignored to date
- If the slide-button is showing a red dot at the top then the Notifications/Sounds Setting is OFF
- Slide the slide-button up so that the red dot disappears and then Notifications/Sounds will be on
- This was what finally get Skype incoming calls to ring perfectly on my iPad Air

NOTE: I presume the slide-button is a new feature that was not on previous iPads and is to allow the fast growing business community to quickly switch off FaceTime/Skype and other alerts during meetings.

COMFORT
- Settings
- Do Not Disturb
- Scheduled - make sure the Sheduled-Slide is showing green and adjust times if they do not suit you. I have scheduled no calls between 22:00 hours at night and 07:00 in the morning. Great feature.

Now have Skype working perfectly on my iPad Air and it is a great experience.

ET iPhone Home said:

Guys, I just bought an iPad Air and I'm loving it. Anyway, I just downloaded SKYPE. When the iPad Air is on standby (not on shutdown), why won't my Skype calls ring when someone is calling me via SKYPE? Do I really need the iPad Air "ON" at all times to hear any incoming (ring) calls? It seems having it "ON" is the only way I know if someone is calling me.

Is there any settings for this? Or a better alternative? Thanks.

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[doublepost=1470550553][/doublepost]OK THIS WORKED FOR ME -- To enable Skype calls while in sleep mode go to

Notifications
Allow Calls From -- ALL CONTACTS

It's not very intuitive - you would think if you ticked anyone it would work -
however, it doesn't, you need to tick "all contacts"

It worked for me.

Good luck guys....

Chrispo said:

[doublepost=1470550553][/doublepost]OK THIS WORKED FOR ME -- To enable Skype calls while in sleep mode go to

Notifications
Allow Calls From -- ALL CONTACTS

It's not very intuitive - you would think if you ticked anyone it would work -
however, it doesn't, you need to tick "all contacts"

It worked for me.

Good luck guys....

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You're talking to those who posted in 2013 and one in 2014. This is 2016