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TonyRedmond
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Apr 07, 2022

New Microsoft Teams Filters Enhance Personal Appearance in Video Meetings

  Two new filters available for Teams video meetings promise to help participants look their very best. The brightness filter projects a soft light onto the face of participants while the soft-focu...
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TonyRedmond
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Sep 08, 2023

PhilGreenway Have you looked in Teams settings? That's where the controls seem to be now...

 

Filters in Teams settings

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TonyRedmond
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Sep 08, 2023

After playing around with the Teams 2.1 client a little more, I think I see the problem. The filters option appears to indicate that No filters are chosen, but if you go to settings (cog wheel)

 

Settings

 

You can see the options to control the brightness and soft-focus filters.

 

Video filters

I think this is because the soft focus and brightness filters are deemed to be basic video settings whereas filters are now more like the Maybelline set (https://office365itpros.com/2023/07/24/maybelline-video-filters/) which are loaded by an app and can therefore be blocked by tenant administrators.

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    Ligia_Indarte
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    Sep 22, 2023

    TonyRedmond Hi, I'm having the same problem and I just don't see anything other than the background option. The filters section is just not there, I have tried it both on the app on my mac computer and on my android phone app.