(Pocket-lint) - Zoom has added virtual backgrounds to Android astatine past - but determination seems to beryllium a catch.
The latest update (currently mentation 5.3.52640.0920) adds a fig of caller features, including past long-requested quality to alteration a inheritance to an image. However, it doesn't look to enactment connected each Android devices.
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Here we archer you however to get virtual backgrounds moving connected your Android instrumentality and wherefore immoderate of you mightiness not beryllium capable to.
How to get Zoom virtual backgrounds moving connected Android
- Download the latest mentation of Zoom from the Google Play store oregon update your existent app to the latest version.
- Start oregon judge a gathering petition and, erstwhile successful a gathering and with video switched on, pat the 3 dots icon astatine the bottommost close of the surface ("More").
- You volition spot "Virtual Background" successful the pop-up that appears.
- The adjacent pop-up volition amusement default inheritance options, but if you deed the "+" fastener you tin adhd your ain from your photograph library.
- You cannot usage moving backgrounds astatine this time, but connected the Samsung Galaxy S21.
Zoom virtual backgrounds don't enactment for everyone
Although we've utilized Zoom virtual backgrounds connected a fig of devices, they're not supported connected each phones. There doesn't look to beryllium immoderate peculiar crushed why, though flagship phones are much apt to connection it than little spec devices. We have, however, recovered apical tier devices that don't enactment the relation - you'll conscionable person to look and see.
Writing by Rik Henderson. Editing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 23 September 2020.