That's by design and standard iOS behaviour (it has been there for years). Tapping anywhere on the system toolbar (i.e. where the clock, wifi, signal strength indicators are) brings the main scrollable view to its "topmost" position.
I really dislike behavior like this that is useful to a few people but is far more likely to be encountered accidentally and feel buggy.
I thought this was one of Apple's "protected" features that everyone used/loved - guess not!
The only disadvantage is that many users do not know about this feature (because there is no indication that the status bar tab is supposed to do something like that) which is the reason many use think an app is buggy after they have tabbed on it accidentally.
Precisely why this behavior should be considered unfriendly. It's not intuitive and is prone to accidents by the vast majority of the target market.
Even just making it a double-tap would make it drastically better, and double-taps are closer to convention as well. Double-click the left or right arrows in an overloaded tab bar in Firefox on desktop, for instance, for it to scroll a full row over.
I've noticed that most people find the feature accidentally, but then once they realize it's an option, use it extensively.
WhatsApp shows a small button in the lower-right corner once you scroll up a few messages for this purpose. iMessage scrolls back to the bottom as soon as you focus the input field. I don't know about the others.
But yeah, it highly depends on how the developers decide to implement it, which is suboptimal :(
Seriously, try to e.g. delete an email from the system's mail app, then vigorously shake your phone in anger. A popup asking you to "Undo delete" should appear on the screen (Many applications hook into this seemingly standard undo mechanism on iOS).
Some things in iOS are objectively weird and unintuitive but I miss them so much whenever I use an Android phone.
"You appear to be shaking your phone in frustration. Would you like to un-delete that?" :)
What's two flicks got that this doesn't? Or maybe if a shortcut was desired for extremely long views, why not make it a double tap?
Try 4-5 (or more) flicks and you also have to wait for the scrolling to happen (at the speed of your flick) .... contrast that with one "press" on iOS - it's not even close - I use the feature daily.
It loses messages at random. Sometimes it fails to send (I was really angry when I had an important call, and my "Hey, I'm here, let's start" got stuck in "Sending..." forever - thankfully, web.skype.com worked. That message made it through only the next day.) Sometimes it fails to receive - someone asks me why I'm not responding and I check the messages and don't see anything.
And those "sometimes" are not once in a blue moon, but every other month (if not worse).
Unfortunately, suggestions to use something else are not really working so I've stopped trying. Everyone seems to hate Skype, everyone I've asked had recognized it barely works and is frequently unreliable, but almost everyone I know still sticks to it. :(
I used to really like skype but it has now become one of the worst, and I'm still forced to use it due to several of my contacts being on it. Imho network effect is the only reason they aren't being mass dumped by users.
Installed it to try, and it starts by asking sms and contacts permissions, which seems innocent enough to integrate with your contact list, only to realize "upload all your contacts to microsoft periodically" is on without asking.
Microsoft, you're really terrible at this.
(bonus point that I can't fully uninstall regular Skype because it's a "native app" on my samsung s7 edge, so at best I can disable it and remove all permissions from it, awesome)
We’ve been using it for years, but the video chat UI is so bad people struggle with it every single meeting. Even I forget from time to time.
Good news for you, SFB is most likely going away soon; Microsoft is seemingly hell bent on rolling all of the things into Teams.
IMHO the last update killed it, awful interface and less features
major changes:
- the "favourites" list (useful) now it's a global directory (useless)
- cannot screen-share a window, only the whole screen (you start hearing the fan very soon on a 5k desktop)
- text chat is now 3 centimeters wide, regardless of screen size (=> useless, in particular if you are in an audio+text call)
However, I also completely lack the curiosity to figure it out. I just try to minimize using Skype as much as possible.
It's a vicious circle of wanting to flee and thereby not getting accustomed to it.
- If you click on a link in a conversation, it switches the focus to that link. If you start typing again, nothing will happen until you hit the spacebar, at which point the link will activate again.
- If you use the search function, there's no apparent way to get back to the most recent messages in that conversation. The only solution I've found is to quit the app and relaunch it.
Per-UX, I've found Skype very difficult to use since the last major redesign a few(?) years ago. I'm not sure if the update made it worse. I feel generally confused just the same.
And it’s not only design but the ux is horrible too, when you switch between conversation - it does not focus on the chat box field so you can start typing right away, instead you have to click it first. This is a basic stuff for a chatting app and whoever missed that is apparently clueless about ux
Edit: also if any of Skype iOS app developers is reading this - on iPhone X when you accidentally click top left corner of the phone where the clock is - for some inexplicable reason the whole conversation scrolls all the way to the top, which is incredibly annoying!