Why did my gender avatar suddenly change from female to male? My name could be either male or female. Somehow Apple always knew (since 2011) that I was a female. How can I reset it to female? It is the avatar in the right hand corner of the App Store and other places.
iPhone 7, iOS 12
RbirdNC wrote:
Seems somewhat sexist that only a male head is available. ... What a good experience.
You’ve clearly been lied to about this and related topics, and probably also about biology, but that’s fairly common. Unfortunately. Hair length is hair length. Nothing more.
RbirdNC wrote:
Seems somewhat sexist that only a male head is available. ... What a good experience.
You’ve clearly been lied to about this and related topics, and probably also about biology, but that’s fairly common. Unfortunately. Hair length is hair length. Nothing more.
If you're referring to the following highlighted image cropped directly from here in the Apple Support Communities:
That's a default image that Apple has apparently tweaked. Pick your own from the available list of provided icons in your account settings here in the communities. Or upload your own image, as I and other responders here in this thread have done. This isn't from your system, Apple won't upload an image from your system without your permission. Or a cat picture, as seems common. And FWIW, inferring a person's gender or their preferences from an in-person meeting or from a photographic image—much less from a silhouette such as here—is fundamentally impossible.
Thanks I went with the butterfly. Seems somewhat sexist that only a male head is available. But it is what it is. Happy to not be identified male. Strangely the female avatar on Facebook opening page has been changed to male. Thank goodness my Facebook profile picture didn’t change. Again thanks to all. What a good experience.
RbirdNC wrote:
Thanks I went with the butterfly. Seems somewhat sexist that only a male head is available.
Why do you think that is a male head? All human heads are shaped pretty much the same way.
Happy to not be identified male.
Neither your sex nor your gender are relevant to your participation here.
I am in no way suggesting that. I was just trying to show the different avatars in each right hand corner. Somehow I feel completely misunderstood in this conversation. I am starting to regret starting it.
The avatars in the App Store are not necessarily the same as the avatars in the forum. It's completely different software.
The notion that you can tell gender by hair length seems odd to me. I've had, in my life hair shaved to about a quarter of an inch and hair that reached below my waist. What gender am I?
You are welcome. You can try changing your Contacts picture. Once you make the change, you may need to sign out/in the App Store/iTunes.
I also think what IdrisSeabright posted is correct.
I have in no way accused anyone of being sexist in this forum and I appreciate all replies. I do know there are things apple has changed which is their right.
Can you change the avatar in Settings/Your Name/iCloud? If that works, restart the phone to see if it resets other places.
I can change my profile picture on that page. But I want to change the gender specific picture that shows in the upper right hand corner of the App Store, Books etc.
The male picture (that should be female) I just noticed is also associated with my community name RbirdNC. Sorry I should have mentioned that before.
What picture shows on your card in Contacts?
My contacts has my initials as does my picture at the top of settings. Thanks for your help.
I think they may have gone to just the generic head with one of the recent updates on the forum software.
You are welcome.
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