Unable to change macOS user’s login picture

Open System Settings. Click on your Apple ID at the top left of the settings panel. Then hover the cursor over the larger icon on the right until you see the word edit. Then click.

fixed it, never mind! restart

Try changing the photo in your primary contact card in Contacts:

Hello Michele!

There are multiple methods of changing your profile picture,

one of them is this:

1) Open your settings

2) Go to Users and groups

3) Here you see the user profiles of your Mac

4) Tap on the Info icon

5) Then, click on the profile picture.

Here you can change the profile picture.

Hope it helps!

I could not change my icon from the Apple Account section at the top of settings and this was driving me insane!!! Thank you, changing through Users and Groups actually worked

Interesting and a couple of things

1 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.

2 - Safe Mode will also eliminate Third Party Software, extensions and drivers from loading. It will only load the Minimum amount of Core Apple Processes to allow the the computer to function at a reduced Level of Performance 

3 - Does the issue present in this mode ?

4 - " I'm running Venture v13.4.1 on a new MacBook. " About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.5 - Apple Support (CA)

5 - In the System Setting at the very Top Menu in Sidebar >> Click your present user Profile Picture

In my case the Owl image and Mouse Over the Owl

Notice the " edit " ?

Click on it

A Secondary Pop Up is presented

Choose the Avatar you what

Try this: goot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac open Contacts and go to your admin contact. Change the photo for your contact card. Then reboot normally and see if that helps.

Note:  if you have a wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries connect it with its charging cable before booting into Safe Mode.  This makes it act as a wired keyboard as will assure a successful boot into Safe Mode.

Then log on iCloud before everything, reboot and log back into it and log back not iCloud and try the fix again!

You are logged into the Michele account?

Did you try booting into Safe Mode then restarting as suggested?

Go into https://appleid.apple.com/ and Mange your account and change you Apple ID! to change your picture it needs to be small enough to fit! Then open you Picture folder /Hard driveID/Users/Your UserName/Pictures folder put the small picture in there! Then in your ID section of Main Settings settings click on 'Edit' pop-up and select Picture in right hand column to select you small picture you saved!

This may be relevant to your problem where the icon you need to edit is not displaying.

1) First, open your settings

2) Go to Users & Groups

3) Select the User's icon on the left you want to change. Probably already selected under "Current User"

4) Once selected, you will notice a grey space in front of your name in the dialogue box. Move your cursor to the left of your name in the center of the dialogue box and the "Edit" option magically appears. (See attached photos.)

5) Click the semi visible "Edit" button and select the icon you want.

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P. Phillips wrote:

Restarted this computer and the Log In Screen matches my User Avatar

Arrive at you own conclusions

What does that have to do with the OP's problem? The Apple ID is changing, the user account isn't.