Thankfully, most major video calling platforms offer the ability to remove your own video feed from view, while keeping it visible to all others on the call. And some, like Microsoft Teams, plan to add it soon.
How to remove your video feed from Webex
Rather than view your video as one of the on-screen tiles while using Webex, you can break it out into a free-floating window. To do so, click the video options menu (three dots) within your video tile, followed by Show my self-view in a floating window. This won’t hide it, but if there are more than three people on the call you can get rid of your floating self-view by minimizing it. Just click the Minimize my self-view video button (a square with an arrow pointing down to the right) and you’re gone. To get yourself back on screen, maximize your self-view.
How to remove your video feed from FaceTime and Microsoft Teams
As of the time of writing, neither Microsoft Teams nor FaceTime lets you stop looking at yourself if your video feed is on. Microsoft, however, plans to update Teams later this month with a feature that—as TechRadar eloquently put it—“finally lets you hide from your own face.” There’s no word on whether Apple has similar plans for FaceTime, so if this is your app of choice, it might be mosquito time.
