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How To Change Your Zoom Background Like Everyone Else Is Doing

The document discusses how to change your background on Zoom video calls by using virtual backgrounds, either from default options or by uploading your own photo. It provides steps to do this on both desktop and mobile apps.

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How To Change Your Zoom Background Like Everyone Else Is Doing

The document discusses how to change your background on Zoom video calls by using virtual backgrounds, either from default options or by uploading your own photo. It provides steps to do this on both desktop and mobile apps.

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How to change your Zoom

background like everyone


else is doing
Why show off your messy living room when you can
video chat from the beach or the Starship Enterprise?

Alison DeNisco Rayome 

April 24, 2020 8:31 a.m. PT




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Sarah Tew/CNET

Millions of people have taken to the Zoom video chat app


to work and study from home during this coronavirus pandemic.
And many have discovered a fun little setting that transforms your
video background from the room behind you to outer space or the
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge. You can even upload a photo
to customize your own.

For the most part, Zoom -- which is seeing a tremendous rise in


use as a result of states mandating shelter-in-place and other
measures -- will hold onto your background image pretty well. It
can make for a fun way to express yourself, or hide the cluttered
room behind you. After all, you may want participants to focus
on you, rather than your curio collection. 

Just be aware that you do need to make sure your system has the
right requirements to change your Zoom background. And if you
tend to gesture a lot or rock back in your chair, or a wayward pup
or child lands on your lap during your call, your caller will notice
breaks in the background. Don't worry, they'll resolve shortly. (You
should also be aware of potential security issues like
Zoombombing during your video chat, and take steps to lock down
your Zoom account.)

Read more: 13 Zoom video chat tips, tricks and hidden features

What's more fun than beaming into conference calls from outer space?
Screenshot by Alison DeNisco Rayome/CNET

Change your Zoom background on the


desktop app 
1. In the Zoom app, click your profile in the top right corner, and
click Settings. 

2. On the menu to the left, click Virtual Background. 

3. You'll see a few default background options provided by Zoom,


including an outer space scene or blades of grass. You can
choose one of those by clicking on it, and it will automatically
change your screen as well. There's also an option for if you have
a green screen and want to use that. 

4. If you want to upload a photo to use as your background, on the


same Virtual Background Page, click the + icon next to where it
says Choose Virtual Background. A box will pop up allowing you
to upload a photo from your computer. Click on the one you want,
and it will appear alongside the other pictures as an option for you
to choose from.

5. To get rid of any photos you upload, tap the X in their top left
corner. 

Read more: Zoom, Skype, FaceTime: 11 great tips to make video


calls actually fun

Change your Zoom background on the


mobile app 
1. When you log into your account and join a meeting, tap the
three dots at the bottom right of the screen to open
the More menu. 
2. Tap Virtual Background. 

3. Select a background from the default options, or upload your


own. 

Read more: 10 free Zoom alternative apps for video chats

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