Avatars from 2 Accounts unwillingly linked by setting an iCloud avatar

I had 2 Different accounts on my mac for different working puposes: For me it's very important to completely divide these scopes into different users. The 2 users share the same iCloud account to synchronize Calendar and Notes. They have different avatar pictures.


Then I chose an avatar picture for my iCloud account. This caused that the avatar from both accounts were changed to that iCloud avatar. Now: If I change one avatar, the other one is changed too. It's not possible anymore to have different avatar pictures for the 2 accounts. I guess this is because they are both linked to the iCloud avatar.


I spent a lot of time on solving this problem, but there doesn't seem to be a solution for this bug.

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Mar 2, 2022 5:24 AM

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Posted on Mar 3, 2022 6:49 AM

I could find it out: It was because both Accounts were secretly linked to an automatically created Contact account. After deletimng this account in contacts it's working again.

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Avatars from 2 Accounts unwillingly linked by setting an iCloud avatar

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