By default, Zoom turns on your webcam, and you should see what others in your chat will see: you, and your background.

The gear icon hides Zoom’s Settings menu. This opens up a wealth of options, but the relevant one for us is the Virtual Background option. The first thing to do is to click the Zoom Settings gear in the upper right-hand corner. When the Zoom main screen opens up, you’ll see the Zoom main page. Virtual backgrounds are also available for iOS (with an iPhone 8, 8+, or X, or an iPad Pro and the 5th and 6th-gen iPads) but support for Android isn’t listed. This is all simple enough that it will either work, or it won’t. If you don’t know what you have, don’t worry. A PC with a supported microprocessor: a quad-core 6th-gen Core i5 (except a U-series chip) a quad-core 4th-gen Core i7 or any 3GHz processor with 8 cores or more.An up-to-date Zoom app running on Windows 7, 8, or 10.Zoom has a rather complex list of minimum requirements that you’ll need to enable custom backgrounds, but here’s what they boil down to:

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