How To: Change Your Background in a Teams Meeting

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Learn how to blur your background or replace it with an image in a Microsoft Teams meeting.

Before you join

On the join screen, select Effects and avatars (or Background filters) and choose one.

During a meeting

Select More (…), then Effects and avatars, then Video effects.

On your phone

Select More (…), then Background effects.

Choose Blur, a built-in image, or Add new to upload your own.

Get help

Submit a request through the Microsoft Teams service.