If you use the Windows 10 operating system, you constantly notice that from time to time it offers all users versatile applications that are considered to be known to everyone as well as completely unexplored. But no matter how it was there, the developers update their brainchild and often, trying to make certain applications better, aggravate their functionality, which actually happened with a program like Skype. After the next update in 2018, the software lost the ability to notify the user that someone from his contact list appeared on the network. On the one hand, all this was done for the convenience of those same users, but on the other hand, this action was not perceived by the user community and the whole epic began, which allowed to fill up the Microsoft forums with the requests that: “It’s time to return disabled notifications!”
With the release of one of the latest software updates, the old function has returned, but not all of you know about it, which is why we decided to tell you about how to enable notifications in Skype version 8.43.76.38 and higher.
How to enable notifications in Skype in Windows 10?
Before you start setting up a new option, you must update the operating system to the maximum and download updates for Skype, version 8.43.76.38 or later. Only after these actions, you can proceed to the following settings! So recommend to act in MS.
Activation of the desired option after updating the application will be available in the so-called “Program settings panel”, namely: go to “Settings” → click on “Notifications” → find the item in the right-hand column “Notification of contact appearance in the network” and move opposite it switch to the "on" position.
The above actions must be carried out personally, because the updates, although it introduces an innovation into your software, the option does not automatically become active and needs to be switched in manual mode.
Thus, it is possible without special problems to enable notifications on Skype, which will not only revive your application due to the active function “Contact online”, but also allow you to make the used Win 10 even more modern, because During this work and entertainment behind the PC, you can always be aware of which employee or friend appeared on the network and due to this notification, you can immediately contact them.
P.S. At the time of writing, the article described above feature is available only to participants of the program "Skype Insider", ordinary users will be able to get this innovation a little later - after it has been tested and the bugs present in it will be minimized.
