Hi Tara,
I am not sure if I understand you correctly. If you are asking on how to start an Instant Message session with a Skype contact then just double tap on the contact and you have buttons for Video Call, Voice Call, IM, Send Photo, View Full Profile and, if they have a mobile number in their profile, SMS. If you want to review your chat history, go to the messages tab. Double tab on an entry and you see all the messages that were exchanged. I just restored my iPhone to factory settings which means I reinstalled Skype. When I opened the app for the first time after the restore Skype asked if I allow access to Contacts and also if I want my Contacts stored on the phone or the Skype servvers so they are available on all devices. I Allowed both, but I did notice that I only saw messages from since I restored it. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tara Prakash Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:43 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: SKYPE AND text chat Hi Sieghard and all. How do I find the INstant messages or chat messages whil using skype on iPhone using ios 6? I can always find messages, where I get to the voice messages but not text messages. I will appreciate your help. Regards TaraPrakash ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:siegh...@live.ca> To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 10:31 PM Subject: RE: SKYPE AND IOS6 Hi Carol, It is not difficult to switch to Speakerphone on Skype, however, it does not work by simply taking your phone away from your ear as is the case for regular phone calls. It is a bit tricky without headset because you do have to hear Voiceover to tap on the right buttons/selections and this you can only do once a call has started. Anyhow, here is how it works: 1. After you start a call double tap the second of the 5 buttons from the left. The buttons are "Mute" on the very left, then "Earpiece/Headset", "DialPad", "Show Options" and "End Call" on the very right. The second button will say Earpiece if you do not have a headset connected and it will say Headset if you do have a headset connected. 2. Once you double tap this a couple of choices pop up right above that bottom row of buttons and one of them is Speakerphone. 3. Double tap Speakerphone and the call will switch to Speakerphone. Once Speakerphone is active the button along the bottom row will now say Speakerphone as it always indicates whichever method you use for your call. If you double tap on it the options come up again above and you can select Earpiece or headset if you have one connected and switch back. If you ever make a video call the first option on the bottom left is Video, then comes Mute and then Earpiece/Headset. You can turn video on or off and select which camera you want to use in the same way as with Speakerphone. Double tap Video, options will appear above with an option to turn on video if you started as a voice call and want to start video or, if you started as a video call you can turn video off or select the backfacing camera since by default Skype uses the frontfacing camera. Every since the 4.0 update Skype continues to be fully accessible, I find it very easy and intuitive to use and it still works just as well as ever under iOS 6 although I don't think there has been an official update to support iOS 6. I think once you get the hang of how this works with these options showing up after tapping the Video or Earpiece buttons you will have no problems. If you use the DialPad keep in mind that in Skype or, for that matter, in all other Voip apps touch typing/dialing is not enabled and you have to double or split tap to dial numbers on the DialPad both the main DialPad which you use to call a number as well as the DialPad you would call up if you had to enter numbers during a call, for example, if you ended up on a system which asked you to dial an extention. As with the Phone app itself, using a headset does have a lot of advantages and does make things a bit easier. Regards, Sieghard Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
