1. Background audio is still killed on startup. Sometimes even in the background. Skype reconnects in the background and plays the Skype startup sound and kills whatever I'm listening to.
2. Loading a group chat will result in a long wait before messages start to appear. After selecting the chat, there is about a 1 minute period of time where the app locks up (showing the list of chats with the selected chat highlighted). Then, once it gets past that, for about another minute or so, an activity spinner displays in the center of an otherwise blank page. Then, the spinner goes away and messages can be entered into the chat, but the page is still blank - no messages display (including the ones I send) for a long time. I haven't yet been patient enough to measure how long it takes for messages to start to appear. I just leave it in the background while it does its thing, and then hope by the time I get back to it that it's started to actually display the messages.
3. There does not appear to be any indicator differentiating when a message is unsent and when it is sent. Previously, italics were used.
4. There is no way that I have found to edit or remove a message I sent from the conversation.
5. There is no way that I have found to join a conference call. I was actively watching a group conversation at the time that they started a call, and I did not even receive a Skype call prompt to pick up. It showed a light grey notification in-line with the chat that had a phone icon with an arrow pointing inward, along with the name of the person who they asked to start the call, and the time, but no button to answer or join or anything like that.
6. I can't figure out what causes this to start, but when it does, every time I leave Skype, I get a notification banner that says "Using another audio application ended your Skype call" even when I am not on a call. Even when there is no other audio application running.
7. I receive a blank "action" message if someone tries to send me a picture (as if they typed /me and then typed enter). Of course, since picture sending is not implemented in the app, it makes sense that there should be no notification of it and they should be told somehow that sending files is not supported, or something like that.
8. Online status indicators in the chat list stay "offline" (the Skype icon outline) upon connecting. As you know, everybody defaults to offline when you are not connected. However, the indicators are not updated to their current online status in the chat list unless I scroll them out of view and back. That is, when Skype connects and gets everybody's online statuses, those indicators do not update in the chat list. I go to the contacts page to verify that they are online, and go back to the chat list and they still appear "offline". Only when I go to the chat list and scroll past them and then back up do the online status indicators reflect the correct status.
All of the variables I can think of:
A. iPhone 4S 64gb with AT&T. Not jailbroken.
B. Connection is usually 3G due to sparse availability of wifi. However, wifi seems to have no effect when I do have it.
C. I am a participant in an active group chat (i.e. sometimes a hundred messages per hour or more)
D. I use background audio to listen to podcasts using the app Podcaster. I am not sure if this affects Skype in a different way than other kinds of background audio.
E. All notifications are enabled both in Settings -> Notifications and in Settings -> Skype
