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Copper Contributor

Mar 31, 2020

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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...

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Grandswiss
Apr 23, 2020
doug4772
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: 0

On another mac (blur enabled) I got
hw.optional.avx1_0: 1
hw.optional.avx2_0: 1

manoelguedes

Copper Contributor

Apr 01, 2020

doug4772 That's weird. I used to have the background blur option avaiable on my iMac teams app, but it's gone now. I checked the terminal command line and do not show AVX2.0 either.

kathysgeek

Copper Contributor

Apr 16, 2020

manoelguedes I see the same thing on my 2013 Macbook Air.
The blur feature in Teams was present and worked a couple weeks ago but it disappeared after an update.
Looks like Microsoft chose to disable it if you only have AVX1.0.

Matu_
Copper Contributor
Apr 16, 2020
kathysgeek I'm sorry, however I don't believe taht's the reason. It is working for me on my MacBook Pro and it has only AVX1.0. Something else nedds to be there.
- kathysgeek
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 17, 2020
  Matu_ So it is working for you now? It was not working in your 4-1-20 message -- right?
  
  Would you mind sharing the output for the following terminal command?
  sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features