
Just click a message in the notifications panel to jump into the conversation. Click the bell icon to see reactions to your messages, in group conversations, or if someone quoted you-all in one central place. Notifications panel-Grab a cup of coffee and catch up on what you’ve missed in your notifications panel.Call recording-Capture special moments in a Skype call with your loved ones or record important meetings with colleagues.HD video calling-Experience HD in one-to-one or group video calling, now with call reactions.Here’s a look at the latest features on Skype for Web: You can now enjoy our latest features from any desktop (Windows 10 and Mac OSX10.12 or higher) with the latest versions of Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Skype for Web. We continue to be driven by the opportunity to connect our global community of hundreds of millions of users, empowering them to feel closer and achieve more together.

But make sure to check back with Tech Times as we learn more.Skype has always been about bringing people together. Whether those features will also make it to the web app remains to be determined. One such feature is automatic background blurring, which uses artificial intelligence to generate a "bokeh" around the subject to blur their background during video calls - perfect for hiding super messy bedrooms.Īnother feature lets users toggle on live captions and subtitles to help deaf or hard-of-hearing users communicate more efficiently. Whether recently released features for the desktop version of Skype will also eventually come to the web app remains uncertain. Users can now access it to see every link or piece of media even sent within a conversation, which should make it easier to locate something without having to scroll through stretches upon stretches of text bubbles.įinally, there's also a new feature that lets users search within individual conversations.

The media gallery, a longtime feature of the standalone Skype apps, has also made it to the web. First is a new notifications panel that pings the user each time they're mentioned or quoted. Apart from staple features centered on making calls, Skype for Web has also received quite a number of user interface improvements.
