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Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Users may transmit both text and video messages and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allows video conference calls.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Skype Outage Chart 02/01/2026 15:35

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Most Reported Problems

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GermanyHamburg Connection
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GermanyBorken Sign in
FranceCaen Video
United KingdomLondon Sign in
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Skype Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • GottaMakeItSmh Power Seeker or something (@GottaMakeItSmh) reported

    ******* ZOOOM APP CAN'T EVEN MAKE VOICE BUTTON NORMAL ITS ALWAYS BROKEN **** SKYPE WANNABE

  • TonyClancy8 PrayerGroup (@TonyClancy8) reported

    This is so hard for a Man to share his story without family. Then you get people calling you a scam, and tearing you down. They don't take any time to call, email, or anything to verify before announcing you are something fake. Tanya why? I am right here. Skype DVDmillions

  • JenniHalton Jenni Elbourne (@JenniHalton) reported

    I really do not like resorting to bad-mouthing companies on Twitter, but @Skype I'm at my wit's end! PLEASE tell me how to contact a real person who can help me with a subscription /billing problem. @Microsoft

  • jasmineajdesign Jasmine Johnson (@jasmineajdesign) reported

    If we’re making this migration from Skype to Teams, we need to fix the capability to see online statuses in Outlook.

  • loolousy loolousy (@loolousy) reported

    help with preparing to move house then helping us move house, visits to see me (before lockdown of course), the doorstep visits, the Skype catch ups, the FaceTimes, messages & emails to see how I’m doing and messages offering advice, support & best wishes.

  • minnesota_jen MinnesotaJen (@minnesota_jen) reported

    @sulkyracer They wouldn't be out to dinner at all if they thought covid was a problem. Especially sitting close, no mask, etc. They would have had a skype meeting. What a room full of frauds.

  • UlsterUniISD Ulster Uni ISD (@UlsterUniISD) reported

    Staff Reminder: essential engineering work to University Skype for Business service on Mon 23 Nov 2020 7pm-12am. During this time there may be brief disruptions to S4B & desktop Conferencing services. Once complete users may need to log back into desktop phone or S4B client.

  • RonJatcliffe John Ratcliffe (@RonJatcliffe) reported

    @GeorgeTakei I guess deployed service personnel could also use facetime, whatsapp, skype, zoom, etc, etc as well, but that wouldn't be such good marketing for Amazon.

  • iMleesh Leesh (@iMleesh) reported

    Interview carried out by Skype and where technical difficulties, two by telephone. Each interview lasted for about 15 minutes. From the 28, whittled down to 10 to go to 2nd round interview (6/10)

  • Matt_Honig matt (@Matt_Honig) reported

    I'm so glad covid didn't happen when SKYPE was the primary video call service. What a nightmare that woulda been

  • campingbuddy Ken Knowles (@campingbuddy) reported

    @Brf13b @CarlyCassadyWX Yes, I know. It’s just distracting. I have the same problem when commercials have people wearing masks. I’ve seen Dr. Birx on a Skype meeting wearing a mask. I honestly asked because I didn’t know she was required to wear it on air.

  • Chariotofhelios David Farragut (@Chariotofhelios) reported

    @nypost Couldn't it be done by zoom or Skype? The went to Maui to drink Mai tai and eat shrimp. There is nothing more urgent than finding a way to help californians out while they destroy business with the moronic lock downs.

  • darth darth™ (@darth) reported

    skype can u update your mac os icon to fit in with big sur if it is not too much trouble

  • marthawrees martharees (@marthawrees) reported

    @progressive need #email, international Skype phone call doesn’t go through, chat says my issue is a different department.

  • misscoragrove Miss Cora Grove (@misscoragrove) reported

    @brooyetti Hm I haven't encountered that issue w Express VPN, Speedify, or ProtonVPN. I also find Skype to be more finicky for Mac people. There are also options for camming via your own website that I'm still testing. I'm leaving Modelcentro for VXpages to explore this option.

  • StreamOfRon #RONDACTED (@StreamOfRon) reported

    @jayholler @Google Still leaps and bounds ahead of Skype for business. And before you point out meet: last I looked it uses the Skype for business backend to set up meetings and suffers from some of the same problems as a result.

  • jthake Jeremy (@jthake) reported

    @jouniheikniemi @JussiRoine @sassdawe I’ve experienced the same thing on signal. I also trust Microsoft more as a platform than something like this too. Making a switch is def the biggest problem here. That’s why I think if you said “hey Skype is back, join me here” would make sense.

  • tiredmarchesa Cassandra Quando coeli movendi sunt (@tiredmarchesa) reported

    I am so tired. My Skype will not be working later due to bad weather wifi issues 🔮

  • gengaiyan Gengaiyan (@gengaiyan) reported

    @JeffWBrown @randychapman I have the same issue while migrating Skype to Teams using control panel or powershell, have you got success on the user migration via control panel ?

  • PonchoRebound Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) reported

    I would be genuinely interested in a deep-dive analysis of how Zoom instantly became the go-to video messaging service back in March, instead of the dozens of other existing services, which people had already heard of and had access to: Skype, FaceTime, WebEx, Google Whatever

  • YNOTtheTIGER Tony ⚾️ (@YNOTtheTIGER) reported

    Grumpy old man rant. Skype for Business was perfectly fine. Teams is that “all-in-one” app that was created to fix a problem that never existed in the first place.

  • BUFFM0NA_BOT buff mona (@BUFFM0NA_BOT) reported

    Im a nonthreatening feminist boy, come talk to me on Skype! talk to me on skype about your problems as a woman i sympathize i’m taking womens studies. I took women’s studies I know what ‘systematic’ means.

  • JoppeGust JoJo Chen (@JoppeGust) reported

    @JanDavidHassel In general i think teams has same kind of quality issues with both sound and video, that discord don’t, as Skype had. Sometimes these even feel weird as it might be everyone is on same good connection but suddenly video or sound just goes from ok to poor.

  • Colonthreee :3 (@Colonthreee) reported

    @americanmcgee @Facebook We got marginally better results with googads, at least when measured over a period of time. What worked the best was simply telling people we know to help share it. ;w; Discord, slack, foras etc., even hangouts, skype, and Teams, were used. All to get it out there. x'3

  • xkenx97 Kenny (@xkenx97) reported

    @ShaneMcFarlan17 @TheSiteSupply No. I won this PS5. I don’t know what “I’ll cop it” means I’ve Skyped 1 person who was interested but they wanted me to open the box and plug it in. If someone is interested I have no problem using FaceTime or Skype to show them the console

  • PaulTheBookGuy Paul “TᕼE ᗷOOK GᑌY” Alves (@PaulTheBookGuy) reported

    @craigd @Skype It’s terrible. The NDI support is completely broken, different flavours don’t work with each other well. They need to do something. Zoom is eating their lunch.

  • JussiRoine Jussi Roine (@JussiRoine) reported

    @jthake I'm unclear why I'd want to use Teams with a personal account. Is it for switching over from Skype, I'm not sure? Separation is great but I feel the issue isn't there for this.

  • GreatDame4 GreatDame (@GreatDame4) reported

    @Stella4Menzies What, Zoom, M Teams, Skype not working?

  • cixjjunie sya ☾ (@cixjjunie) reported

    HELP MY FRIEND WANT TO GO ON SKYPE I DONT EVEN AHEV THE APP FIFNIFNF

  • AnthonyBurke_ Anthony Burke (@AnthonyBurke_) reported

    @lynnpcullen Discord is basically just a better version of skype, just because people abused a service doesn't mean the software is bad.