Change Your Microsoft Teams Background Before a Meeting
MS Teams backgrounds can help you hold meetings anywhere.
Select theCameraicon for a new meeting or choose any of the meetings underRecent.
Give a new meeting a name.
SelectGet a link to shareorStart meeting.
Share the meeting link via email or any other medium.
ChooseStart meetingto begin the video chat.
Microsoft Teams displays a screen to choose your video and audio controls for the call.
Thebackground settingsicon lies between the Microphone icon and the controls icon.
The background options are only enabled if the camera is on.
Toggle theCameraswitch to turn it on.
SelectBackground settingsto open a panel on the right to display all the thumbnails for the background image options.
Choose a thumbnail for the background you want.
Select theJoin Nowbutton to start the meeting with the background applied behind you on the screen.
you could also upload your own background to give the meeting some personality.
Microsoft recommends images with an aspect ratio of 16:9 and a resolution of at least 1920 x 1080.
The higher the resolution, the better your images will appear.
The chosen background persists across the meeting.
Tip:
Microsoft Teams also allows you to blur the background instead of applying an artificial image.
Choose theBlurbackground setting to soften the view behind you.
Microsoft Teams also allows you to change and swap backgrounds while a meeting is going on.
Go to the meeting controls at the top.
SelectMore actions(the icon with three dots) >Apply background effects.
Choose from the available images.
ClickPreviewto see the image before you apply.
SelectApplywhen you’re finished.
Note:
Background effects are available on the Microsoft Teams client for PC and Mac.
The background blur feature is supported on iOS.
