To help limit distractions or make meetings more fun, you can now blur your background or apply:
- An immersive background
- A static background
- A seasonal background
- A custom image provided by you or your organisation
- Special effects such as filters
You can also apply styles to customise your video with various lighting, colour filters and stylised backgrounds.
Tips:
- Sensitive information might be visible when you change your background.
- In your self view, your background will appear mirrored or inverted. However, the other participants in the meeting will see the correct orientation.
- Availability of backgrounds, filters and styles is subject to client type, account type and settings applied by Google Workspace admins. Workspace admins can let users apply backgrounds and special effects.
- To improve real-time video on devices, you can process these in the cloud:
- Static background images
- Blur effects
- Light adjustments
- This feature saves battery, reduces processor usage and improves meeting quality.
Change background
Important: To change background and effects on an Android device, you must use one of the following devices with Android version 9 and up:
- Samsung Galaxy S9 and up
- Pixel 3 and up
- Other similar devices
- Open the Meet app
select a meeting.
- Before you join or during a meeting, at the bottom of your self view, tap Effects
.
- You can adjust and stack visual effects across different categories. Tap the category and scroll down.
- Under the Backgrounds tab
- To slightly blur your background, tap Slightly blur
.
- To completely blur your background, tap Blur
.
- To upload your own background, tap Upload
.
- To select a pre-uploaded background, tap the background that you want to use.
- To remove the effect, tap Remove all or tap
.
- To slightly blur your background, tap Slightly blur
- Under the Filters tab
- Tap the filter that you want to use.
- Tip: If the filter is interactive, follow the on-screen instruction to turn it on.
- Tap the filter that you want to use.
- Under the Appearance tab
- To lightly touch up your appearance, select an option under 'Portrait touch-up'.
- To change the style, tap the style that you want to use.
- Under the Backgrounds tab
- To select or remove the stacked effects, on the right of your self view, tap Stack
.
- Select the effects that you want to remove, or tap Remove all to remove all effects.
- To minimise the stack view, tap Close
.
- The number in the green bubble indicates the number of effects that you've applied.
- You can adjust and stack visual effects across different categories. Tap the category and scroll down.
- To close the Effects panel when you've finished, at the top right corner, tap Done
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Background effects may increase your battery usage. You may want to turn the effects off if your battery is low. Your video may be cropped to view other participants, so some of the background or effect may not be visible to other participants.
