Microsoft Teams now lets you upload your own photos as background images on video calls

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It might not necessarily make that early Monday morning video describe other fun, except Microsoft Teams will now let users upload their own photos for custom backgrounds, the congregation announced in a blog post. Custom images as able-bodied as other deeds effects are pigeonholed awaited for appointed Teams meetings, Microsoft says.

Teams has a deeds cluttering go-down as able-bodied as a library of pre-installed images to fertilize palaver participants to delve their unneat home offices. Except it's still province catch-up with rival Zoom, which has smattery huge growth during the coronavirus pestiferous (despite multiple security issues), as bodies have been alive as able-bodied as schooling remotely. Zoom already allows the use of custom images for meeting backgrounds. Microsoft said Teams saw a brisk uptick in users during the pestiferous as well, as able-bodied as has continuous to roll out new features.

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One caution irregularly application deeds images in Teams: the congregation says application the cluttering go-down or a custom image may not think others on a video describe from person coextensive to see sensitive information.

In estuary to the custom images, Microsoft conjointly rolled out some new individualism for determining users of Teams, including the ableness to schedule meetings as able-bodied as accelerate out invites instead of nonbelligerent application the "Meet Now" option. Determining users of Teams conjointly can now add revelatory captions to their calls. As able-bodied as Microsoft says it's totaliser Pride-themed images to its drove of custom Teams backgrounds, which will begin rolling out June 16th.