How to set custom background on Microsoft Teams when making video calls

Working and studying at home through online conferencing applications is no longer a strange thing in this day and age. Besides the undisputed convenience, online conferencing applications also bring the necessary experience for each person in the digital era. Microsoft Teams is such a typical platform. In addition to the essential utilities to ensure remote learning / working tasks take place with the most efficiency, Microsoft Teams also supports small but useful features to make the user experience more enjoyable. Plenty, such as setting custom background for video calls.

For example, you work at home, the room is a bit messy today while you are about to have an extraordinary meeting with the company leadership through Microsoft Teams. Instead of cleaning the room immediately, you only need to pair the background for the video call, which looks both interesting and can hide the messy scene behind your back.

Choose video call background on Team

Microsoft first announced the video call blur feature in Teams in 2018, allowing users to blur the background in the background while making video calls to avoid distractions. You can also set the background for a video call with the images that Microsoft has provided. How to do the following.

Once in a video call, click [.] in the menu bar and then select Show background effects , there are a number of options including:

1. None (empty).
2. Blur (blur)
3. An image chosen by Microsoft (choose from the default images available)

Wallpaper is available in Teams

Just choose 1 of the 3 options you want. For scheduled calls, you can also choose a background image before joining the call.

Video call with available background

How to set up custom video call wallpaper on Team

During the winnings (specifically in May), Microsoft said it will feature an innovative feature that will help users set up custom backgrounds for video calls, such as company logos, or any other just any image you want. Although this feature is still in the final stages, you can still enable custom wallpaper through a simple tip as follows.

On a Windows PC:

1. Prepare an image file in JPEG format about 1MB in size as a custom background.
2. Put the above image in the % AppData% MicrosoftTeamsBackgroundsUploads folder.
3. Now, in the video call on Teams, you click the circle background icon in the illustration below. Your new custom background will be listed along with the default background set.

On a Mac:

1. Prepare an image file in JPEG format about 1MB in size as a custom background.
2. Put the above image in / users // Library / Application Support / Microsoft / Teams / Backgrounds / Uploads folder .
3. Now, in the video call on Teams, you click the circle background icon in the illustration above. Your new custom background will be listed along with the default background set.