iOS Contact photo does not keep zoom cropping and shifts back to original - AGAIN!!!

On the iPhone, when I take a contact picture (or edit an existing one) for my AppleID account, and I edit it within the app by zooming/cropping it and save, it does not keep the cropping. It looks like it worked, but when I close the app and return, the picture returns to its original zoom. It does not stay cropped.

This is the same problem outlined in 2014 and 7 years later it's still a problem.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6567091

And DON'T point me again to an article about how to edit pictures in the Photos app! I want it to work in the CONTACTS APP!!!

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