Tip: Windows Phone Skype users can share location when asked 'Where are you?'

The nearly recent update to the evolving Skype customer for Windows Phone brought location sharing, a useful feature if y'all use Skype for frequent peer to peer messaging.

Users can just tap the '+' sign and instead of sharing a photograph, they can choose their position, creating a little map and a hyperlinked address within the chat. Tapping that address brings up a full-screen map and you can and so use the upward pointer icon near the height to transport to the Windows Telephone mapping system to get directions to the location.

Interestingly, the Skype team automatic the procedure a chip likewise, every bit Senior Programmer for Skype on Windows Phone Joel Shea revealed on Twitter:

"Whatever time someone asks "Where are you?" it will become a link and so you can easily send your location!"

Indeed, when using the Windows Phone version (but non desktop), if someone asks 'Where are you?', it comes through as a hyperlink. Tapping information technology initiates the sharing, with permission, of your location. Sure, this is not a large addition, but information technology is trivial Easter egg features like this that can make Skype fun.

Regarding the fact it does not work on the desktop, this is likely due to the numerous new backend features not yet uniform. For case, sending photos on mobile results in this message "This version of Skype does not support new photo sharing features even so." Instead of the file being saved, users are given a hyperlink to the image, which is hosted on the Skype servers.

However, a new version of Skype for desktop is manifestly in the works, as shown a few weeks ago by Rafael Rivera on Twitter and seen in the higher up screenshot. Skype seems to exist moving to another stage where the backend that runs the service is now uniform letting Microsoft create apps with the same experience across platforms.

Skype has the potential to exist a unified, all-in-1 messenger, and come 2022 that dream may finally be a reality. 1 thing is sure, the service is getting amend.

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