Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams offer ways to use virtual backgrounds for extra privacy or simply a change of scenery. An alternative is to blur the background completely. Here's how.

How to blur background on Zoom. Enable the setting before a meeting: Open the Zoom desktop application and sign in. Click on your profile picture at your top-right corner.

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If you're the meeting or webinar host, start the Zoom meeting on your desktop (it will be enabled by default for all free and single pro accounts using Zoom 5.6.3 or higher).

Download the Zoom Mac or Windows app.. Open the application, sign in, and click your profile picture, followed by the Settings link in the drop-down menu. Head over to the Virtual Background tab.

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