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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]