Since the countries began to declare a state of emergency, and people started to work from home, Microsoft Teams grew 1,000% in conducting video calls in Teams.
Microsoft Teams is a tool for the business market; video calls are a very important part of the daily work, and it becomes difficult to hide the view of a messy house, since most people are now working from home.
Microsoft Teams already had the function to blur the background, but recently added the option to change the background of the images, but how do we do that?
Notes:
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Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other meeting participants.
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Background effects are only available for scheduled meetings.
Change your background before a meeting starts
While you’re setting up your video and audio before joining a meeting, select Background effects 
. It’s just to the right of the mic switch. Your background options will display on the right.
Choose Blur to blur your background. You’ll appear nice and clear while everything behind you is subtly concealed.
You can also replace your background with one of the images provided.
Change your background during a meeting
To alter your background after you’ve already joined a meeting, go to your meeting controls and select More actions 
> Show background effects.
Select Blur to blur your background, or choose from the available images to replace it.
You’ll be able to preview your chosen background to see how it looks before you apply it.
Notes:
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If you don’t see Show background effects as an option in the menu, the feature might not be available on your device yet.
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Linux users aren’t able to use this feature at this time.
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