Top 10 Skype Problems for OS X
Well, they may not be problems for everyone – but they’re problems for me with the latest OS X client:
- I can’t seem to turn off warning messages – like the one that tells me that I have multiple tabs open in a chat window.
- I can’t seem to turn off cascading windows – I want my video chats to be in ONE position, period. This becomes a problem when…
- When I’m in the middle of a call, new calls interrupt that call when I have Skype set to pick up all calls automatically. “That’s a feature, not a bug” – yeah, but Skype should be smart enough to understand that I’m already in the middle of a freakin’ call, man.
- You can’t tweak the volume of a current call if the other side is sending video. At least, not that I have discovered.
- This should go without saying, but the Skype Mac client is a distant second to the Windows version. I’m starting to understand the frustration Mac users have had all these years, and I’m about to become a LOT more vocal about it.
- The login pane doesn’t adhere to the size I set for the client. If you’ve bothered to resize your contact list window, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
- The menu bar icon doesn’t remain when you exit out of Skype. At least, if I’m offline, Skype should eliminate the icon from the Dock – or allow me to configure it that way.
- There’s no “Mute All Sounds” toggle in the Notifications preference pane.
- I can’t resize the PIP in a video call.
- I can’t swap the PIP with the recipient’s video (since I use CamTwist with a chat overlay for my video source).




