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How practice I change my Skype settings?

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To access your settings in Skype:

Select your profile picture.
Select Settings.
Choose from the post-obit settings to make your changes:
Notation: You can access your Skype settings from any platform or device, but not all settings are available to change on every platform.
- Business relationship & Profile
  - Command your profile picture visibility.
  - View and manage your business relationship information.
- Full general
  - Change your linguistic communication.
  - Choose your startup and shut options. (Non available in Skype for Web or mobile)
  - View available Skype Accessibility Keyboard Shortcuts. (Non available in Skype for Web or mobile)
  - Customize your Translation settings by selecting your Spoken linguistic communication or Translation voice.
- Privacy
  - Turn Share location with Bing on or off. (Not available in Skype for Web)
  - Plow Translation permissions on or off.
  - Plow Only allow Skype calls from contacts to ring on this device on or off.
  - Enable or disable Optional diagnostic data.
  - Select Privacy and Cookies to view the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
- Appearance
  - Choose your color scheme, light, nighttime, or arrangement setting modes, and cull from calorie-free or dark loftier contrast accessible modes.
  - Bear witness the profile moving picture of who sent the last message in your grouping chat with concluding message author avatar on group chat.
  - Enable compact listing manner and bear witness user and conversation avatars.
    Annotation: Enabling meaty list mode will disable last bulletin author avatar on grouping chat.
  - Enable dissever view mode.
- Sound & Video (Desktop and Web only)
  - Choose your camera and arrange the settings.
  - Cull your background effect.
  - Cull your microphone and adjust the input levels.
  - Adjust your Noise cancellation settings.
  - Choose your speakers and adjust the output levels.
  - Make a exam call.
- Calling
  - Fix up caller ID, call forwarding, and voicemail.
  - Turn on Call subtitles and other call settings.
  - Reduce information usage - Never, On cellular networks, Always. (Mobile simply)
  - Admission avant-garde calling settings. (Desktop only)
- Messaging
  - Turn read receipts on or off, change how emoticons appear, change your text size, and other IM settings.
  - Turn spider web link previews on or off.
  - Turn on or off the ability to paste copied messages as quotes, rather than as patently text.
  - Customize file motorcar-download settings.
- Notifications
  - Increase, reduce, or eliminate what events Skype alerts you to.
  - Manage Practise Not Disturb functions.
  - Manage e-mail notifications.
- Contacts
  - Sync contacts. (Non available in Skype for Windows, Web, or Linux)
  - Manage your blocked contacts.
  - Manage your privacy settings for contacts.
- Help & Feedback
  - Check your current Skype version.
  - Find links to help content and bank check current Skype Status.
  - Provide feedback and view additional information.

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