Skype Preview for Android now lets you easily share snapshots from your video calls

By Dan Thorp-Lancaster
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Now you can capture a moment and share it with a single tap.

Skype Photograph
Skype Photograph (Image credit: Windows Central)

Skype Preview for Android, Microsoft's testing ground for new features coming to the app, is getting a handy new feature if you like to snap and share moments from your video calls. Dubbed Call Snapshots (opens in new tab), the feature lets you easily take photos and videos from your video calls and share them.

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Taking advantage of Call Snapshots is fairly straightforward. While in a video call, you can simply press the camera button in the lower-left corner of the screen to get started. From there, your snapshot will be shared in your call chat, and you can save it, forward it, post it to your highlights, or simply remove it. It's a small feature in the grand scheme of things, but if you want to quickly capture something during a call, it beats taking a screenshot and digging around to share it.

If you're game for trying Call Snapshots out, you can grab the feature with version 8.14.76.6 of the Skype Preview app now. Keep in mind that you'll need to be on Android version 6.0 or later to try Snapshots out. Assuming testing goes well, we may see the feature roll out to the full Skype app soon.

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Dan Thorp-Lancaster
Dan Thorp-Lancaster

Dan Thorp-Lancaster is the Editor in Chief for Windows Central. He began working with Windows Central as a news writer in 2014 and is obsessed with tech of all sorts. You can follow Dan on Twitter @DthorpL and Instagram @heyitsdtl. Got a hot tip? Send it to daniel.thorp-lancaster@futurenet.com.

7 Comments
  • How I can contacted to the system
  • Messenger says waiting for network
  • Meh. if it doesn't do SMS relay or encrypt locally stored messages, then it cant replace Signal yet. Which is a shame, because that would make it a shoe-in for both enterprise/skype-for-business communications, and consumers that care about security.
  • Tried to this Skype preview build yesterday evening. When people calls its doesn't ring, even on the windows 10 app. The pics doesn't show up in to other participant chat, depending on the Skype app they have. Calls quality are worst and worst, impossible to chat with the keyboard like before, now we have a poor bubble that looks like the messenger bubble layout (who thought about this poor ui?) we ended up using Duo, which has no image taking capability but get the job done correctly!
  • Same thing here, Skype is not reliable on android. Imagine an S8+ user using Skype Lite because the traditional one is buggy😐 . Works well on PC no problem😊.
  • It works great for me.
  • Skype, really have their priorties sorted! NOT. Seriously... snapshoting videos? Really?... Skype, truly have lost their way.