New version of Skype's iPhone App gives Warning Message on Hacked iPhone

Skype released an updated version of their popular VOiP iPhone app with some minor improvements and fixes.

Geogo3r, one of our regular readers here at iPhone Hacks pointed out that after installing the latest version of Skype (v1.0.2) on a jailbroken iPhone, you get the following warning message:

"This version of Skype is only supported on unmodified iPhone OS"

The new version of Skype for iPhone includes:

• Improved support for calling phone numbers that don't have a country code
• Improved error handling when making calls to landlines and mobiles, which previously may have failed if you had a monthly subscription.
• Resolved a problem with new account creation, which caused customers to be redirected to an incorrect web page, when making a purchase.
• Fixed a problem, which caused the application to crash, when tapping a contact image (avatar) within a chat.

Skype's VOiP iPhone App released couple of weeks back has become extremely popular on the App Store and has already crossed the 2 million downloads mark.

Unfortunately, users who have jailbroken their iPhone had observed that Skype's iPhone app was very unstable and was crashing very frequently due to a jailbreak package called "Mobile Substrate" which is used by number of jailbreak apps such as such as Winterboard, Clippy, Lockdown, Five Icon Dock etc. The developer of Mobile Substrate, Jay Freeman (aka Saurik) had released an updated version of Mobile Substrate to resolve the issue.

It looks like that fiasco has prompted Skype to show the following warning message to users who install the new version of Skype for iPhone on a jailbroken iPhone:

It doesn't stop users from using Skype and seems to only serve as a warning to inform users who have jailbroken their iPhone that Skype will not be providing support for the stability related issues. The warning message shows up only for the first time after installing the latest version of Skype.

In case Skype is still crashing on your iPhone then check out our post on how to fix the crashing issue including the comments section as it has some useful tips from our readers.

Ironically, Skype along with Mozilla and Cydia had added their support behind EFF's push to get the U.S. Copyright Office to grant DMCA exception so users can jailbreak their iPhone without fear of copyright infringement penalties.

As always, let us know what you think?

Thanks geogo3r and Egypt for the tip!!!

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