#Custom microsoft teams backgrounds windows#

Any of these folders could be hidden, so you may have to toggle a setting to display hidden folders. I can bring a little bit of my former home in paradise to my meetings if I please.

Everyone else will see you and your background as normal, not mirrored. It’s simply meant to make you feel comfortable and, frankly, not distract you when in your meeting. This is a standard setup for all video conferencing tools (FaceTime, Zoom, Google Hangouts) because we as humans are used to seeing ourselves in a mirror, not straight on. You and your background image will show up mirrored in the meeting launch and self view.

Limit to jpg and png gifs will not be animated. Once you add the image to the folder, you should see it in your list of backgrounds during your meetings in Teams.

#Custom microsoft teams backgrounds windows#

It turns out you can simply add images to a hard-to-find folder on your Windows or macOS device to enable that background as an option for yourself. The main reason is because you’re limited to the background images that Microsoft provides. While this helps bring it closer to feature parity with Zoom, the uber-popular video calling tool, it’s not quite there yet at this point.