Skype for Business for Android

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Permissions Required

This app may request the following permissions:

• retrieve running apps
• read sensitive log data
• find accounts on the device
• add or remove accounts
• read calendar events plus confidential information
• read your contacts
• modify your contacts
• directly call phone numbers
• read phone status and identity
• read the contents of your USB storage
• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• take pictures and videos
• record audio
• view Wi-Fi connections
• view network connections
• create accounts and set passwords
• pair with Bluetooth devices
• access Bluetooth settings
• send sticky broadcast
• change network connectivity
• allow Wi-Fi Multicast reception
• connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
• full network access
• change your audio settings
• read sync settings
• use accounts on the device
• control vibration
• prevent device from sleeping
• toggle sync on and off
• read sync statistics
• receive data from Internet

Recent Reviews

A Google user

2.0★

The app has become very buggy since the last couple of updates. I'm unable to join a call without logging out and logging back in at least 3 to 4 times. even then, it's not smooth sailing. if the screen fades out, I get booted from the call and can't rejoin without going through the whole routine of logging out and logging back in. since I dial in before heading out to work, it's very dangerous when the call drops and I have to reconnect while driving. MS, if it ain't broke, don't break it.

A Google user

3.0★

I have two issues with this app. 1) When you use the Skype audio, muting/un-muting is very slow and notifications keep popping up, with sounds, which is distracting. 2) I keep getting notifications that I received a message, and I can read part of it in the notification, but when I open the app, I don't see the message. I see that there is a conversation but it's blank.

A Google user

1.0★

I call this app "Skype for going out of business". the app keeps reconnecting in the middle of the call (for "reauthentication"). if you change the password, forget about quickly connecting back - it just sits there at login. you have to uninstall the app and then maybe you can get lucky and it will connect. phone call (call back) does not always connect - you may keep hearing a conversation and app's chime at the same time.

A Google user

1.0★

This program is not based on the Skype codebase. With real Skype, if someone sends me a message, it appears on every computer (including smartphones) that I am logged in with. With "Skype" for Business, it seems to try to guess which computer I am using (often incorrectly), and sends the message only to that one. Unfortunately, it's often incorrect, so I don't see the message until later. Also, if the message goes to my smartphone, I see a message preview, but if I tap it, the message isn't there. This is just another example of commercial, closed-source software working worse than free software.

A Google user

3.0★

Messages do not appear on more than one device at a time (unlike Messenger for example), such as my phone and PC. Calls sometimes appear on the phone, sometimes on the PC, and sometimes in both locations. It would be a much better application if all messages and calls appeared on all connected devices (like Messenger does).

Mike Spohn

2.0★

This app has become increasingly difficult to use as I'm not being notified of calls at random, and there will be times where no sound from my end will be sent to the caller, whether that is to cell phones, home phones, or even my co-workers who are also using Skype. It will require me to log out, quit the app, then re-open it to go through the drawn-out process of the log-in again. When I can't answer my calls in that timeframe, it's frustrating.