How to change your background in Microsoft Teams

While Zoom has had its problems — quite a few problems, actually — the videoconferencing app remains popular for its ease of use and features such as the ability to pop in different backgrounds. Now, Microsoft has added that ability to its own Teams office communications app.

Teams is currently a business application; if you try to sign up and choose the option to use it for “Friends and Family,” you’ll be directed to Skype. But if you are using it as a business tool — or if your company is using it — then it’s now much easier to hide your messy home office.

Here’s how:

• Start or join a Teams video meeting using the Windows or Mac application. (This feature isn’t available on the web version.)


• Click on the three dots (the advanced...

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