2017/11/13

Why did Skype hijack my phone?

I installed "Skype for Business" recently (required by my org) and everything seemed fine.

Some time later, I clicked on a phone number and selected "Call 888-555-1212 using iPhone" from the contextual popup as usual - and Skype came up. Yuck.

After a _great_ deal of searching, I found that reverting to the default behavior (of actually calling with my iPhone...) is as simple as:
  • Open the FaceTime app.
  • Open its Preferences.
  • Look for the "Default for calls" popup, at the bottom.
  • Select "FaceTime".