Custom Backgrounds Gallery
for Microsoft Teams

Custom backgrounds in Microsoft Teams helps show off your own personal style and make meetings more fun and inclusive! When joining a Teams meeting, you want the focus on you – not other stuff in the room. Custom backgrounds provide a great way to minimize those distractions and bring in new ways to meet face to face.

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How to customize your background in Microsoft Teams

Background settings before a Microsoft Teams meeting

Change your background before a meeting starts

While you’re setting up your video and audio before joining a meeting, turn on your camera and select Background filters.

Background settings in a Microsoft Teams meeting

Change your background during a meeting

Go to the top of your meeting screen and select More actions (indicated by three dots), then Background effects.

Interested in creating a custom scene for Together mode? Learn more about designing a scene using Scene Studio

Custom backgrounds for Microsoft Teams


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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024 backgrounds

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Community submitted backgrounds


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Nature backgrounds




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Allyship for Ukraine backgrounds

Submit your custom Microsoft Teams background

We encourage you to submit your own creations to have them featured in our collections from the community!

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