Change a Skype Call to a Video Call on HTC One M8

Edited by Thor, Crystal, Eng

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Steps

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    To begin, unlock the phone
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    We can do that by pressing down on the power button located on top of the phone. We'll then need to swipe the lock screen up, and that will take us to the home screen.
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    On the home screen, we need to tap the icon at the bottom of the phone, in the middle
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    There is a grid made up of white dots. This will open up the applications folder.
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    In this folder, we need to find and tap the Skype application
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    There is a Skype icon, which is a white "S" on top of a blue cloud, and underneath it says "Skype".
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    We now need to find a conversation and press down on it to enter
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    We want to demonstrate how to turn a Skype phone call into a video call.
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    To do that, we're going to press down on the telephone icon at the bottom of the screen, in the middle
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    This will allow us to make a phone call. We are now having a phone conversation with a Skype contact.
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    We can quickly turn it into a video call by pressing on the icon on the left-hand side
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    It's a blue circle with a white camera inside, and the camera has a line through it indicating that it's turned off. If we press down on this icon, it's going to turn on the camera and turn it into a video call. We don't have to end the call and start again.
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    End the conversation by pressing the big red button at the bottom
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    It has a white telephone inside.
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    This concludes the tutorial on how to quickly turn a Skype phone call into a video call on an HTC One M8
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    If you have any questions, comments or queries about this video, or about the process that you have seen in this video, then please leave them in the comment section below, and we will answer them for you. Thank you for watching VisiHow.
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Recent edits by: Crystal, Thor

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