Add Your Own Custom Image as Background in Teams

NOTE: You cannot add custom images as your background in Teams until you have first used at
least one of the default images supplied by Microsoft. If you have already done this, you can skip to
step #2.

Step #1: Change your background. Join your Teams meeting (you can create your own Teams
meeting and join it) or a video chat and click on the ‘More actions’ button (the one with a three-
dot icon) on the controls bar.

Then, select ‘Show background effects’ from the available options in the drop down menu.
A ‘Background settings’ panel will show on the right side of the Microsoft Teams app. Scroll through
the available images and select the one you would like to set as the background. The selected image
is highlighted with a purple border and a tick-mark on the top-right corner of the image.

Select the image you want then hit the Apply and turn on video button.

Step #2: Now you are ready to place your custom images into Teams!
To easily access ‘Backgrounds\Uploads’ folder in Teams to add your own images, first, right-click on
the Start button and select ‘Run’ from the available options to open the ‘Run’ command window.
Then, copy/paste the folder address mentioned below in the ‘Run’ window and hit Enter or click OK.

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads

This will open the ‘Backgrounds’ folder inside the Microsoft Teams AppData folder on your PC.

Put any image you want to set as a background image in your Microsoft Teams meetings to this
folder. You can add as many custom images as you wish.

Now, open the Microsoft Teams again on your computer. Start a video chat or meeting, click on the
‘Background Effects’ button. You should see all your custom background images available to select in
the ‘Background Settings’ screen.

Your custom background image will appear on the bottom of the list of images on the Background
settings screen.

If you have any questions or problems please contact the Technical Support Desk at
Support@spcollege.edu