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Virtual Background is Grayed out on my Macbook Pro

MrWalters
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Virtual Background on my Macbook pro is Grayed Out, Ive downloaded the lastest version and its turned on in the account online, its still grayed out.  

 Help: waynewalters  at g

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This is commonly because your computer doesn't meet the prerequisites to support virtual backgrounds. Here is a link to a document that provides the list of prerequisites.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360043484511-Zoom-Virtual-Background-system-requirements


Jeff Widgren | Host of the Zoom Test Kitchen
@ZoomTestKitchen


My MacBook means and beyond suggested system requirements.

MacBook Pro 2015, 2.7 Ghz duo-core is, 8GB memory. Big Sur 11.4 system

Hello @MrWalters ,

 

Did you ever get this fixed?

 

I have a user with an M2 machine facing this exact issue. Thanks.