Squad - talk and hang out

Very good app as the 4 and 5 star reviews already said. Good video quality and very little lagging, maybe 1-2 seconds. I was on the same wifi network. Thank you for the great app. For those 1 star reviews, which complained about being forced to share contacts, as the developer said, you can opt out by following these steps: tab "Enable Contacts" button--notice that there is no option to skip here. Tab "Don't Allow" at the next popup, it should then take you back to the previous Enable Contacts screen. Now, you should see "Skip" below the blue "Enable Contacts" button. I found it worked for version 1.2.11.

I a agree with the previous rater that Squad has great potential beyond social media. In addition to academia, it can be used by real estate agents to show details of listings without their clients going to the agent’s office. Repair people may find it useful. The phone and split-screen functions work quickly and well. The phone function appears to work quicker than FaceTime. Setting up a view of the caller’s screen is easy. I have a problem moving between views on my side of the app. But that’s minor.

I’ve used it with multiple friends and it’s great when you’re apart — you can literally show everything that’s on your phone and laugh about dating app matches and watch videos together. I think an improvement would be to be able to control the sound of the screen that is being shared. When I watch videos with friends I cannot hear them when we watch videos and the video is too loud to be bearable anyway (especially in headphones). If it would be possible to have this control the app would probably be flawless in my opinion. Will continue using it with my friends gladly!!

the video quality is too low. In the other phone i had to test the app the video appear in low quality + it seemed like pictures rather than an actual video. The sound was ok but I don’t think i could be able to watch something with my internet friends if the quality is this low. They won’t be able to see the video as it should look. The concept of the app is great and it does work for other stuff but doesn’t really do a good job in the video part. I’ll keep on using the app because it is indeed a good app but won’t be able to use it for the reason I downloaded it.

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Installed this app and right off the bad it was creepy. My coworker got a notification I joined before I even allowed access to my contacts. I understand Squad checked my phone number against his contacts, but I can easily see this being abused by stalkers/ex-partners/etc. On top of that, when I went to delete my account, I got repeated errors that it “couldn’t be done” and that I would need to contact them—so, I clicked the Feedback button and that didn’t work either! Just another error with no guidance on what to do next. Suspicious app obviously mining personal information. Beware.