Following a recent update, Microsoft Teams made it much easier to add custom backgrounds. Here’s how to use your own images for backgrounds within Teams.

  1. Within a video call, select the More actions button (three dots).
  2. Select Show background effects.

    Microsoft Teams Custom Backgrounds

  3. Select Add new.
  4. Select the image you’d like to use as a background.
  5. Select Open.

The image is now available to use as a custom background.