How to Blur Background in Zoom Meetings

Blurring your background in a zoom meeting can help you showcase a beautiful background to your attendees and let your Zoom meeting look professional and clear. As students to universities and small businesses to international brands are utilizing Zoom conferencing for attending private and group calls, a blurred background is a need of the time when you have to take the call in your pants and have no time to fix the background in your room.

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So, if you are looking to understand how to blur background in zoom meetings to hide your messy room or have a privacy protected meeting, you are on the right page as here we are showing you some of the different ways you can easily blur background on zoom app using your PC and Mobile. Here's how to use Blur Background option in Zoom:

How to blur background in zoom

There are two different methods to blur background in zoom app and we are sharing these two methods with you right here. One is about enabling background blurring effect before starting a meeting and second is about how to blur background in zoom after starting a meeting online. Read more for understanding:

How to Blur Background Before Starting a Zoom Meeting?

In this, we will let you know how you can blur background before starting a video conference or zoom meeting easily and step-by-step:

1. Go and Open Zoom on your PC.
2. Click on the Settings icon (available in the top right corner).
3. Now Select Background & Filters options from the left sidebar.
4. See Under the Virtual Backgrounds, click on the Blur.

Congratulations, your background is now blurred for any new Zoom meeting you will initiate later. You can even see a preview with real-time blurred background from the same preview window.

Go ahead and join or create a new zoom meeting, your background will be shown as blurred.

How to Enable Blur Background During a Meeting?

In this step, we will let you understand how you can easily blur background during a video call on the zoom app:

1. During a Zoom meeting, Navigate to the stop video icon (see at bottom left corner and hover and click on the up arrow on it) 
2. Now click on the Choose Virtual Background option (it will open the sidebar and go to Background & Filter's).
3. Click on the Blur option.

That's all, now you can see blur background during your zoom meeting. That's how easy it is to blur background in a zoom meeting without having to close the meeting or add a blurred image as your background to pretend a blurred background.

With an alternative option, you can also download a blurred image from Google images and upload it as a background for your Zoom meetings and it will represent your background as blurred, but it will not look as professional as the Zoom's blur background option and will look like a fake background on zoom.

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