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Blur Background on Mac OS
I am using a Macbook Pro to work remotely. The blur background feature is helpful, but it appears to be absent in Teams for Mac. I noticed the blur feature support page says it's not available on L...
Both of my macs reported in "machdep.cpu.features" only AVX1.0. I executed this command
sysctl - a | grep avx
On one mac (blur disabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 0On another mac (blur enabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1
Hi there, late 2014 MBA here without AVX2.0.
I can't see the options on-screen but if I press Shift+Cmd+P during a call my background gets blurred.
Hope it helps.
Kudos to the Teams development group for doing the right thing. I tested the new version on my Mac Pro (2013), and I can now see the menu item, and all the background effects work like a charm with the processor's AVX 1.0 extensions.
MontyPyspockwhat version do you use? I have 1.3.00.9271 (5.5.2020). Does not seem to work on my MBP, mid2012.
Hi Grandswiss,
I have MBP late 2011, and AVX 1.0. It wasn't working for me before, which brought me to this thread. In fact I use Skype and it works perfectly on that as reported by others above.
Here is what worked for me.
1. Go to Settings --> General --> tick Disable GPU hardware acceleration (requires restarting Teams)
2. Restart Teams app and on your 1st video call it should give an option to include background effect
Hope it works for you too. 🙂
Cheers!- Thank you! I am using an M1 24 inch iMac, Monterey 12.4 and latest version of Teams. Runs AVX2.0 etc. Absolutely no sign of backgrounds until I sued your tip. Worked first time.
Same here. I have 1.3.00.9271. Does not seem to work on my MBP (early 2013), nor do I see the option to do so from the "...".
