On your Windows phone, launch Skype Preview, go to settings and select “Make Skype your default messaging app”. Send and receive texts, group messages, and photos all in one app with a single view of your SMS and Skype conversations.

No need to reach for your phone, you can view new messages as they arrive and respond to messages from your computer. SMS relay is part of this update, and allows users to send and receive SMS and MMS messages directly from a Windows 10 PC when Skype on your Windows 10 Mobile is set as the default messaging app.

UPDATE: This feature also requires you to be using the latest Windows Insider build on Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft now says: This Skype Insider build also includes stability improvements.Though Microsoft never mentioned this when it announced Windows Insider build 14926 earlier this week, this build includes a nice surprise: It’s the first to feature the long-awaited “Messaging Everywhere” capabilities in the Skype Preview app. Using the same way, you can also remove the reaction the same way. To duplicate someone’s message reaction, click on their reaction on desktop and tap on mobile. In this new Insider build, you can now double tap to like a text message received on Skype mobile apps.Īnother improvement is related to click/tap on someone else’s reaction to add a message reaction. Until now, you could only quote text messages. You can now Quote/Reply to a photo from any Skype client. Microsoft today announced the release of Skype Insider build 8.85 comes with several messaging improvements.

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