Hi Shawn, I just installed the new Skype update and since I have a personal Skype ID and one for my business I signed I nto my business account on the laptop and called myself on the iPhone. I am quite excited about this, but I think that if you have a passcode on your phone you still need to unlock the phone although you can answer it from the lock screen. OK, maybe I should have said this the other way around: you can answer a call from the lock screen, but if you have a passcode on the phone you have to unlock your phone after tapping Answer before the call is actually answered. I have a 5S so using touch Id it's pretty easy. Now, how to answer a call? At first I tried what they said in the What's New which is a swipe left except that I did a double tap and hold (pass-through gesture) and then swiped left. This did, however not help. I then called myself again and thought I see what the action rotor gestures would do. So when the notification came up in the lock screen I did a simple one-finger swipe down and Hurray, I had options to Decline, Answer and I can't remember in my excitement if there were others. But double tapping when it said Answer didn't actually answer the call, but it did take me straight to entering my passcode and at that point I put my thumb on the home key, touch Id unlocked my phone and the call was instantly connected even though I didn't have Skype in the foreground and I didn't have to do anything else.
This is very exciting because while it has been really easy to make Skype calls it was always a bit of a challenge to answer them. I had to double tap on the notification in the lock screen, the unlock the screen and then quickly find the Answer button in Skype. Now that last step is no longer required. Tomorrow I will turn Voiceover off and ask one of my employees to swipe left on the notification in the lock screen because I want to see if without Voiceover the call is answered without having to unlock the phone. I'll report back tomorrow. Another new and awesome feature is that if you are in the Skype app and on a call, a 2-finger double tap now ends the call just like it does a regular phone call. Hurray iOS 8 and extensibility!!! Now let's hope Apple fixes some bugs and I'll be a very happy tapper. Of course in their last update Skype added the ability to do group calls from the iPhone, another feature many were waiting for. . Now if they only offered Skype-In numbers for Canada I'd drop all other Voip providers. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Krasniuk Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 9:22 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: Getting to the core of apple products and software, 1 peel at a time! Subject: New Skype On The iPhone Hey all. I was going through my updates today and I noticed a new Skype update, version 5.5. This update has new and pretty neat features, including answering calls and replying to messages in the lock screen and when banners appear in iOS8. They tell you how to answer calls and that in the lock and home screens as a sighted person, but has anyone figured out how to do the same when Voiceover is on? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
