How do I send a contact's details to someone in Skype?

You can share a friend's contact card with any of your other contacts right from a chat, or from their Skype profile. Sending and receiving contact details is not available in Skype on Android 4.0.4 - 5.1.

To send a friend's contact card to someone:

From within a chat:

  1. Select the Contact card button Contact card button.

  2. Select the contact(s) you want to share, and then select Send .

From someone's profile:

  1. Go to the profile of the contact you want to share.

  2. Select Share contact .

  3. Select Send next to the contacts you want to share with.

Drag and drop on desktop:

  1. Open a conversation of the person or group you want to share a contact with.

  2. Find the contact you want to share in your Contacts button Contacts or Chats .

  3. Simply drag and drop the contact into the conversation window.

  4. Choose to share the contact info or add the contact to the chat. If you add them to a one-to-one chat, this will create a new group conversation.

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