Skype Introduces Video Message Filters, 3D Touch Features

So Skype wants to enhance its video messaging features by letting you add fun filters as video effects before recording them. · Call your world for free – Free voice and video calls let you talk to your heart’s content with all your friends and family on Skype. Features: · Find all of your friends and family in an instant – search for friends, groups, conversations or new contacts on Skype.

You can send short clips, much like Snapchat. Unlike Snapchat, however, the recipients can open and see the video messages whenever they want to.

An example of the video message filter from the Skype blog. You can then press the record button to record your video, using filters such as balloons, face-changing options, Halloween-themed ghosts and costumes, and even the negative filter, which creates pictures’ negatives to create a ghastly you. We can only hope the improvement will come also to Skype on Windows 10 soon (a UWP Skype would be most welcome personally).

If you’re in a conversation and someone shares their location, a photo, URL or contact, you can Force Touch Peek it, then swipe up to reveal more actions or harder press to Pop it into the foreground.

You can download the latest update to Skype for Android so you can enjoy this new filter for video messages feature. Users can unveil more options by swiping up. – Easily share Skype contacts.

The best thing about Force touch is that it lets you do a lot more by simply recpgnizing the different amounts of pressure you exert through your fingers. Finally, users can share a Skype contact by tapping the contact card icon while in a conversation and sharing the contact from their contact list.

Also new in Skype for iOS is the ability to hide and delete chats from recent conversations using just a swipe, or editing part of the conversation out if you’d rather forget it. The option to hide or delete then appears. – Completely delete a conversation’s history from the chat menu or Recent list.