{"id":23499,"date":"2012-03-08T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=23499"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:51:57","slug":"skype-for-mac-adds-auto-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/skype-for-mac-adds-auto-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype for Mac adds auto updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/skype-for-mac-adds-auto-updates\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23513\" title=\"skype logo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/skype-25-100x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Microsoft has updated <a href=\"http:\/\/skype-for-mac.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>Skype 5.6 for Mac<\/strong><\/a> with auto-updates and some minor improvements to the video calling interface.<\/p>\n<p>This means that finally, users won&#8217;t have to download a new DMG file every time a new Skype update is released &#8211; it will simply update itself automatically. The video conferencing interface has been tweaked slightly so that users can switch between dynamic and non-dynamic mode.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In dynamic mode, the current speaker is moved to the top of the screen whereas in non-dynamic mode, the speakers are static. Skype also now supports the new full screen mode implemented in OS X 10.7 Lion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23510\" title=\"skype-5.6\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/skype-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/skype-8.jpg 700w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/skype-8-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the overall Skype interface remains the same which won&#8217;t be welcomed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/skype-5-for-mac-updated-but-major-issues-remain\">many Mac users who dislike the new UI <\/a>introduced by\u00a0<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/skype2.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Skype 2.8<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has updated Skype 5.6 for Mac with auto-updates and some minor improvements to the video calling interface. This means that finally, users won&#8217;t have to download a new DMG file every time a new Skype update is released &#8211; it will simply update itself automatically. The video conferencing interface has been tweaked slightly so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/skype-for-mac-adds-auto-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skype for Mac adds auto updates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2559],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-23499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionskype"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333892,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions\/333892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=23499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}