Change Teams Background Custom Image

To change your background in a teams meeting first click on the more actions button the one with a three dot icon on the controls bar.

Change teams background custom image. Place the image in users library application support microsoft teams backgrounds uploads folder. Then select show background effects from the available options in the menu. Whether you re setting a background from an image you ve uploaded or one of the images that s built into microsoft teams the process is the same. It s long been possible to blur your background in video calls in teams but recently microsoft also introduced an ability to change your background image too.

Your new custom background will be listed along with the default set of backgrounds. To change your background image during a call click the three dot ellipsis button on the menu and select show background effects add new and pick a jpg png or bmp file from your computer. Before the feature to set a custom background image in teams rolled out there was a workaround. From the join a.

Within a video call select the more actions. Prepare a custom background jpeg file with the size around 1 mb. Meanwhile new features in the free version of teams bring important meeting scheduling capabilities to every teams user. We recommend following microsoft s official instructions but we also have this older guide to.

Now during a video call in teams click the background icon.