New Skype App Now Available for Download [Video]

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Posted June 10, 2014 at 8:42pm by iClarified

The new Skype 5.0 app for iPhone is now available to download from the App Store.

Remastered to put your conversations with the people who matter most at your fingertips. Stay in touch with free messaging, voice or video calls on Skype.

Features:
• Find all your friends and family in an instant - With over 300 million people using Skype, you’re bound to bump into someone you know.
• Talk with your fingers - No matter where you are, your friends are always available with free messaging.
• Call your world from Skype - Free voice and video calls let you talk to your heart’s content with all your friends and family on Skype.
• Low cost calls to mobiles and landlines too - Keep in touch, even if they’re not on Skype, with low cost calls to mobiles and landlines on the other side of town or the world.
• Share your favorite snaps - Take a great photo you want to share? Send it over Skype to friends and family and you won’t have to worry about email size limits or expensive MMS charges.
• Video messaging – Record life’s everyday moments and share them with the people who matter most, with free and unlimited video messaging over Skype.
• Chat with anyone, anywhere - Skype’s available on smartphones, tablets, Macs, PCs, and even TVs. Whatever your friends or family use, Skype is there. Simple.

What's New In This Version:
• Overall performance improvements - faster start up and fluid animations.
• A new modern hub centric design putting recent conversations first - just swipe to see your favourite people or contacts.
• Richer and more reliable messaging: create groups, share photos (even to offline contacts) and video messages.
• In-app notifications for quick conversation switching, and in-app controls to manage notifications.
• A new simplified, modern voice and video calling experience.

You can download Skype for iPhone from the App Store for free.

Update:
For some reason the Skype app for iPhone has been removed from the U.S. app store at the moment. It's still available in the Canadian store at the link below. We'll let you know as soon as it returns the U.S. store. Follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for updates.

Update 2:
The app is now available in the U.S. App Store.

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paulMOGG - June 12, 2014 at 2:11am

Can't believe that MS could take this long fixing the Skype upgrade ! But then it took them years to upgrade one of their operating systems and then that didn't work at launch and took a long time to fix ... Must be in the MS genes

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DrCarvalho - June 11, 2014 at 9:45pm

i can't delete the chats !!!

DrCarvalho - June 11, 2014 at 9:44pm

paulMOGG - June 11, 2014 at 4:41pm

MSstill haven't sorted out the Skype upgrade ! How bad is this ! They have no idea about QC no idea about stable apps in rack they don't seem to get much right !

Tukmol - June 11, 2014 at 3:56pm

They dropped ios 6 and below support, that's too bad.

Waleed - June 11, 2014 at 10:22am

Not available in Pakistani Store. Gonna change to Canadian store to get skype ASAP :)

Faisal ahamed - June 11, 2014 at 8:31am

How to make skype conference from iphone

SIBI - June 11, 2014 at 7:47am

Also Not available in UAE App Store .

zetaprime - June 11, 2014 at 1:19am

How do they release apps with major bugs so that they have to pull them from the store? Don't they beta test? There's no excuse for that sort of thing. Either the app is ready or it's not. If it's not they should stfu about it until they have something presentable so as not to waste people's time looking for something that's not there.

paulMOGG - June 10, 2014 at 11:58pm

Hope this is not yet another problem that MS seems to be known for when they launch or update something it rarely works right away! ... Guess they really need to sort out their QC department , if they have one ?

Matt - June 10, 2014 at 9:50pm

My canadian appstore version of Skype has a ton of bugs. Not sure if it's related to my iOS 8 beta or if it's actual bugs in Skype.

JamesHoyland23 - June 10, 2014 at 9:23pm

Is the new update version of skype still available in the uk App Store.

iClarified - June 10, 2014 at 9:27pm

No, currently Skype for iPhone has been completely removed from the U.S. and U.K. app store. Both the new and old versions are gone. It could be a propagation issue or perhaps a bug was discovered. It remains on the Canadian app store and perhaps some others but we haven't gone through them all.

What - June 10, 2014 at 10:02pm

Also Not available in Indian App Store .

What - June 10, 2014 at 9:21pm

nope, Not available yet.

irushdi - June 10, 2014 at 9:19pm

the item you tried to buy is no longer available US AppStore

iClarified - June 10, 2014 at 9:21pm

We've updated the article to note that Skype for iPhone has been removed from the U.S. app store. We'll update the article again when it returns.

irushdi - June 10, 2014 at 9:25pm

ok thanks :) note : also the app been removed from Saudi and Algerian Store

Sizzler59 - June 10, 2014 at 9:09pm

Don't think this is available anywhere there. And iTunes not showing any updates for Skype.

zetaprime - June 10, 2014 at 8:58pm

Link is bad. Why do they post crap like this without checking first?

Dino - June 10, 2014 at 8:54pm

Not available in the US app store

John Zammit - June 10, 2014 at 8:49pm

It's not available in the maltese store

Ali Arman - June 11, 2014 at 6:04pm

Not available in Saudi Store