Hi Alan,
I am surprised that the call was using the rear camera and I wonder if you accidently switched it without noticing. I am saying this because unless something changed in the last update, Skype always seemed to default to the front camera. Anyhow, it is very easy to change it from front to rear or vice versa or even to turn the camera off or, to turn it on if you start out as a voice call. Here is what you do: Once the call is connected to another Skype user, you have the End Call button across the bottom just above the home key. Just above the End Call button is a row of 4 buttons, you can explore by sliding your finger up just a bit from End Call or just find End Call and then swipe left. The buttons from left to right are: Video Call, Mute, Earpiece, Show Options If you swipe left from the End Call button, you will of course get to "Show Options" first, then Earpiece which, if you have a headset connected will say "Headset", then swipe left again to get to Mute and finally to "Video". If you swipe left one more time you get to the call duration timer. Now, once you find "Video" double tap on it. This will invoke another small menu with 3 items just above that row of buttons and approx. in the middle of the screen. These are arranged one on top of the other just as I put it below: Front Camera Back Camera No Camera Once again, you can find these by putting your finger in the middle of the screen and exploring or you can swipe left from "Video" which means you first get to "No Camera", then you get to "Back Camera" and finally to "Front Camera". Swipe left again and you once again get to the call timer. Now all you have to do is find which camera option you want and double tap on it. Once you do the menu with the camera choices goes away, if you switched to the Back camera and want the front camera or turn off the camera, then you have to first double tap on Video again to bring up the camera choices. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Skype App Settings for Camera I participated in my first Skype Video call yesterday and have questions about how to configure Skype for future video calls. On the call yesterday, the person on the other end was getting a picture from my iPhone 5 rear camera. It seems odd that the default would not be to send the front camera to the other person since I will obviously be looking at my screen to see the other party. I scoured the app for settings to change this but could not find anywhere to do that. I also checked the Skype settings under the iPhone main settings but there was very little that was set there. Can anyone give me some guidance on how to configure the Skype camera settings for future video calls? Thanks in advance. Alan Lemly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
