Step 2: When your additional settings pop up, look for the option that says Show Background Effects. Click the Three Dots to access more settings. Step 1: Look at your Control Bar for Teams on the screen. If you’ve already started a video meeting, don’t worry! You can still apply a background effect any time you want it’s just a slightly different process. Step 4: When you find a background you like, select Apply, and that will change your background for your upcoming meeting. Microsoft has mentioned that they may add the ability to use your own images as backgrounds, but for now, this is not an available feature. When you find one you like, you can select the Preview button at the bottom to see how it will look on your screen. Many are just basic white rooms that won’t cause any distraction, but there are also a lot of nature scenes and fantasy landscapes to pick from. Step 3: If you don’t like the look of blue and prefer to pick a background, scrolling down on the Background Effects window will show you all the images that you can put up as your background. Image used with permission by copyright holder If you don’t have many background preferences and just want some privacy (or you just want to hide a mess), enabling blur is a fast and easy way to change your background. The second option at the top is a blur effect, which uses AI tech to simply blur your background and mask everything except your face. The first option, the “ban” symbol, will restore your screen to your real background if you want.

Step 2: A new side window should now pop open on the right of your screen.

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