image of vinyl record album on start up screen

This is what I get when I first log in

That is because I wanted that Avatar

Notice in first of two below the word " Edit " and inserted that specific Avatar

You can’t delete the user picture. I suppose you could drag in an image of a solid color.

I’ve seen a few posts about it he user picture changing spontaneously. No reason why was found.

Currently, the user account picture is synch’d across iCloud. My guess is something in that process broke down and it randomly chose one of the default user pictures.

What did you have before?

To follow on previous posting from another contributor.

When I first received a New Computer and set it up - it chose the a Default Avatar from those available within the Operating System.

Once it was all setup - it Synced ,via iCloud, to my Other Apple Computers and iPhone.

There after, the Owl avatar become the standard across all Apple Devices signed into the Same Apple ID and using iCloud.

mplsartist60 wrote:

Barney:

Thanks for your response. Previously, there was nothing above the sign in section, it was just the solid color of the screen.

That's pretty odd since there has always been a user account image. No way to set it up otherwise.

Did you have it set to show username and password at login instead of List of Users (that's in the Users & Groups System Preferences). List of Users would not have a user icon and you would type in your username and password.

If you enable FileVault, the decryption login can only be List of Users, so would show the user account icon.

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