Skype can be a battery hog in some cases, but you can set whether it stays open (that is, maintains an ability to accept incoming calls) when it's not the active app via its preference. I haven't done any scientific testing, but there seem to be enough people who have this problem to suggest that Skype may be the culprit. So, if you use Skype, and see bad battery life on your iPhone, try quitting the app and see if this improves things. ![]() There were no other apps running that would have been keeping a connection open, so it's safe to say - given the vast number of people who have commented on the relationship between Skype and poor battery life - that there is a link. I came across a Skype forum post where someone said they lost 70% in four hours, just like me. When I came home, I did some googling, thinking it could be Skype, or it could be another app. An hour later, my battery had only dropped another 5%. I thought of the usual culprits, like brightness (it's not at the maximum), Bluetooth (it seems well behaved with iOS 6, going in standby mode when not in use), or push email. About 4 hours later, I saw it was down to about 25%, and I wondered what it could have been doing to deplete the battery so much. You can make sure you're up to date in the Store, as usual, of course.I was on the road for a bit the other day, and when I left home at noon, my iPhone's battery was about 95% full. Long press to (e.g.) 'Delete conversation' (right) a trivial example here, but if you have (say) a dozen people in a group IM conversation, you can tag them specifically with and starting to type their name. The UI keeps evolving, the hamburger menu is kind of back, but you tap on the contact thumbnail (which was in the centre in recent versions) instead of a traditional hamburger icon (right) Setting my 'Presence' status. On Desktop, phone, hybrid, Xbox, even 'Mixed Reality'.Īs usual, a few screenshots, by way of illustration: And, while the constant fiddling with the UI may indeed turn out to be a little like 'rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic', there's also no doubt that Skype is genuinely getting better, month on month. The interface remains optionally dark, you'll be glad to know, after scares on iOS and Android. Note that some of the UI features above don't seem to apply on the phone, for example 'expressing how I feel during a call'(!) ![]()
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