If your browser doesn’t support it, you will have to enable hardware acceleration, as shown below. For Google Meet’s background blur function to show up and work properly, hardware acceleration should be enabled in Chrome settings. Note: The background blur works for both personal and G Suite accounts.
Open a window in the Chrome browser. On the top right of a Chrome window, click Menu Click Settings. On the left, next to Advanced, click Down. Turn on Use hardware acceleration when available.
Check if hardware acceleration is enabled: Google Meet’s live background feature requires hardware acceleration to be enabled on your browser. To do this, head over to your browser settings and search up “hardware acceleration.” While this setting will be already enabled on most browsers, just make sure that it is for you as well.
You should be thinking “Why can’t I change my background in a Google Meet?”
Well, 1 Open a window in the Chrome browser. 2 On the top right of a Chrome window, click Menu Click Settings. 3 On the left, next to Advanced, click Down. 5 Turn on Use hardware acceleration when available.
You may be wondering “Why can’t I change the meet background back to no background?”
We’ve come across a use-case wherein multiple Meet users are not able to change the background back to no background. One of the workarounds that appears to help in this case is to disable Virtual Backgrounds for Google Meet extension, if enabled.
For example, when the setting is OFF for the meeting organizer, participants will not have the option to change their background regardless of their own settings. We’re adding the ability for admins to enable or disable the use of custom or preset backgrounds in Google Meet for meetings organized by an organizational unit (OU) level.
How to fix Google Meet not working on Windows 10?
One of the workarounds that appears to help in this case is to disable Virtual Backgrounds for Google Meet extension, if enabled. A few more workaround that reportedly help have been explained by the users below:.
Why can’t I use backgrounds in my browser?
Additionally, if you don’t meet the following requirement (apart from ensuring that Hardware acceleration is enabled, your browser supports Web. GL 2.0, and a 64-bit operation system – that are already mentioned in this article), you may not be able to use backgrounds: Chrome version M84 or above on Windows, Mac or Linux.