Skype for Android and iOS gets movie filters, 3D Touch support on iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus
Microsoft today updated its Skype for Android and iOS apps with movie message filters and 3D touch support on the fresh iPhones. You can download the fresh apps now directly from Google Play and Apple’s App Store (iPhone, iPad).
Very first up, the apps are getting movie message filters, which are essentially movie effects that you can add on top of your Skype movie messages. Skype has had movie messages — brief clips you can send to your Skype contacts to be viewed at any time — for a while now, but you couldn’t do much with them beyond recording and sending.
Now, you can tap the filter wand at the bottom left of the movie message window, choose a filter to see it in activity, and then hit the record button. You can add balloons, switch the appearance of your face, or even apply a negative filter.
iOS users are getting the fatter update. Skype has added a bunch of iOS nine features for the fresh iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus:
- 3D Touch the Skype icon on your home screen for quick access to our most used features — search your Skype contacts, commence a call or talk, and access the Skype dial pad. Clicking any of these options takes you to that task in Skype instantly.
- Once you’re in the app, you can 3D Touch a Latest conversation to Peek the latest instant messages or live movie if you’re on a call. Swiping up exposes more deeds and a tighter press will Pop the conversation into the foreground.
- If you’re in a conversation and someone shares their location, a photo, URL or contact, you can 3D Touch to Peek it, then swipe up to expose more deeds or tighter press to Pop it into the foreground.
Skype for iPhone and iPad now also lets you hide and delete talks by swiping the contact or tapping Edit — you can also delete the entire talk history from within any conversation by using the talk menu. Lastly, you can now share a Skype contact by tapping the contact card icon in a conversation to open your contact list.
Unluckily, Skype once again has evidently excluded Windows users from the mix (keep in mind that Microsoft is integrating Skype into Windows ten Mobile). We’ve asked Microsoft for more information on when Skype for Windows will get these features.
Update: “Windows users remain a top priority for Skype,” a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat. “We are focusing our efforts on integrating Skype capabilities into Windows ten communications apps to supply good practices to Windows users. We’ll have more to share in the future.”