Reviews for Skype for Business for Android

I haven't seen any other conversation app with so many issues. Why can't you sync chats between devices? No chat history either. Other people's status is not reliable. It shows offline but they are online or vice versa. The voice doesn't connect with my bluetooth headphones at first, I have to restart the phones which is not the case with any other app. Just fed up. If my company gives me the choice, I would dump this app in a jiffy. Pc version is the same - full of bugs.

The app is stuck on the 'Signing in' screen. Cannot use it at all. Even after reinstalling. I wanted to email the developer directly under the email address given below, and after sending out the email I immediately received an automated response that my email message has been blocked. I finally managed to log in, after trying for an hour. Oh Microsoft...

Poor feature set compared to desktop app, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Regularly fails to notice incoming calls and has to be reinstalled. Drops calls if moving between WiFi and mobile signal every time. Constantly needs to be signed in, or says it does when it doesn't. Just unreliable in every way, so not what you need or should expect.

By far, and with a large margin, the worst one. No ability to have continuous discussions between devices. No reluability in behaviour when using (e.g. you can be having a call with someone on skype on your computer, and someone else is ringing you only on another device without any notification on the one you are already using), convoluted and incompatible with many of my clients' computers. Hate it.

Simple to use. Not as good as zoom for meetings that have more than a few people, restricted to people from same company. it has the advantage though of sharing screen vs zoom which shares only app window. If you are doing a presentation in powepoint and then want to open an excel table to show side by side, you can do this in skype. But in zoom you would need to stop presenting the powerpoint and then present the excel sheet, just one at a time. And each time it takes a few seconds to load.

Downloaded for work; having a terrible time. App will crash to homescreen multiple times before stabilising enough to let me use it (takes a good 3-5 minutes to open properly), and won't sync conversations across devices (so a chat message on my PC won't load on the app, and sometimes duplicates on the app without my replies), causing confusion and frustration. Update: Down to 1 star from 2 bc I've spent 20 minutes trying to open the app. Constant crashes. I just want to make a call.

1) It loses the conversation history with ~50 chance (gone from the app, missing from "Conversation History" in outlook). It is absolutely unreliable. It's a joke that it's "for business". 2) Active conversations are not synced across all my devices. It is really unproductive. 3) If I or the other person go offline or something - you would get "your message was not sent" or "We can't connect to the server" and it hangs - I even cannot type, even after the connection is restored. That's stupid. The worst messager app I know. Updates change nothing.

Does not work properly as an app. If someone calls me I don't get a notification that it's coming from Skype and so I miss many calls. Even if I do pick up, they often cannot hear me, or I get an annoying beeping sound that plays throughout the call as if it's still trying to connect. This also happens when I call out. Works on the computer but this app needs some considerable improvement. Given this is mainly used for work purposes, simple calling is the least you'd ask for.

The new update is even worse than the old one. Without giving the app every single permission it asks for, the app simply refuses to run with a pop-up "permissions required". And no, Skype for business certainly does not need the camera, contacts or calendar permissions to function. Yes, it needs those permissions if you want to make a video call, or call a personal contact in your phone with your work phone. But the problem is that work contacts come from exchange, not from my phone. And I never make video calls using the app. So, why does it require these permissions just to start the app? The old version worked just fine without these permissions either.

Just like Microsoft Office 365 products, Skype for Business only works half of the time. It is full of bugs and issues. App will crash. Sometimes incoming calls will not ring but instead are instantly marked as "missed", call drop despite a good connection. Like I said, it's just as reliable as Microsoft 365 which only works properly half of the time. If Microsoft would opensource their products, we would have MUCH better versions of their products by the end of the week.

I loved this App until this week it started running in the background without my permission. I only have it on my phone to use when I'm unable to call into a meeting from my computer, which is rare (like once or twice a week). Now I have to logout and login everytime, instead of just closing the app. Please fix this to restore previous functionality!

Requires a phone number and all permissions. You can put all zeros for the phone but you cannot use the app unless you have every single permission allowed (except for camera, you can use it with that off). There's no reason for that if you just want basic messaging, so it seems like data mining instead of a need for it. There's also no option to set quiet hours or manage availability. I will stick with Slack for work messaging.

It is usually reliable and easy to access meetings. Getting out of certain screens can be non-intuitive, like when I tap the speaker icon box to expand it, then I had to pause to figure out how to get back to the presentation being displayed. I actually got out of the app view (which was still running) back to my phone home screen and then re-select Skype.

Update 2020-02-05: App consistently crashes. I've been unable to attend any mtgs using it. The PC app is OK. It is still a failure because I can't add people to my groups but at least it works in a way that I can communicate. We're moving to a more reliable app anyway. The Android version is a thousand times worse. This app is complete garbage and I never use it.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.