Apple ID photo won’t change on settings, iCloud.com, and “Name & Photo” setting on Messages in settings.

I've been experiencing the same issue you mentioned with my new MacBook Pro M3. Just like you, my profile photo wasn't showing up on this device, even though it appeared correctly on all my other Apple devices, including my iPhone 13, iPad Air 4, Mac Studio M1, and MacMini M1.

I managed to find a workaround that fixed the issue for me. Here's what I did:

1. Go to 'Settings' and then select 'Users & Groups'.
2. You'll see the correct photo there. Click on your photo.
3. Below, you should see your profile photo with editing options. Slightly zoom into your profile photo.
4. After adjusting it, click on the 'Save' button.

Once I did this, my profile photo started appearing everywhere on my new MacBook M3.

Give it a try and I hope it works for you too. Good Luck!

Solved! I went to the contacts app, clicked on "my card" at the very top and click edit. You can change the picture there. It finally changed in my Apple ID.

This has been very frustrating but hopefully this works for everyone having this issue!!

My daughter has had the same emoji Apple ID for a very long while. I can never get it to change. Something so simple should not be such a problem.

Im not sure if anyone else has suggested exactly this, but if youre still having this issue, try going to the settings on your phone>contacts>my info, and try creating a new contact with the picture you want. Now if you select the new contact and the picture appears everywhere else in iCloud, it's an issue with your contact card in iOS 17. Now go change the "my info" contact back to your main/original contact because we're done with that test. Go to your main contact for yourself in the contacts app>edit>delete the poster/picture you no longer want and select the one you want. Mess around with it a little if it doesnt work the first, restart your phone or swipe out of the app etc. This is just what worked for me today when I had trouble with my picture not changing properly in iCloud.

it still wont work for me everytime i go out of system preferences it just goes back to the one i set it at the start

I just added another way to try. Down below!

I think you have to go to administrator, under users and groups and change it there also. Got the same problem and that worked..

It’s also helped for me, if you go to contacts and go to message in your contact, this way you are basically texting yourself. Then, you change the profile picture to the one you want for your apple ID and that way it changes your apple ID account picture. If it doesn’t work try messing around with it some more.

See -> If your Apple ID is greyed out in Settings

If your Apple ID is greyed out in Settings - Apple Support

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If you can't click your Apple ID

1. Go to Settings, then tap Screen Time.
2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. 
3. If Content & Privacy Restrictions is turned on, scroll down to the Allow Changes section.
4. Tap Account Changes, and set it to Allow. If asked, enter your Screen Time passcode. 

If you can't click other options in Settings 

1. Go to Settings, then tap Screen Time.
2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.
3. If Content & Privacy Restrictions is turned on, scroll down and check if any settings are set to Don't Allow. 
4. If so, tap the setting, then choose Allow. If asked, enter your Screen Time passcode. 

or:

See -> Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – Apple Support (UK)

• 👉 Check restrictions -> tap Settings -> Screen Time -> Content & Privacy -> scroll to Allow Changes.

or

If you have a MDM profile, you need to contact your company - IT department.

I changed my profile picture on my Apple ID, but it doesn’t update in other iPhone userr, my contact still appears with the previous profile picture in his iPhone (which appeared automatically to him).

how can I force this update?

Thanks

I was able to get mine Updated - I Have been experiencing the same . It took a few steps.

I did a network update . I did a soft reset . I updated my Apple ID password. I turned off WiFi & Bluetooth. Then

1. Go to settings
2. click on your name at the top - this takes you to your phone Apple ID account
3. Touch your photo
4. choose your picture

Thus worked for me. Please let me know if this helped anyone else. 😊

The reason why this isn’t working is because when you updated your picture, cellular or WiFi wasn’t enabled. To fix:

1. enable cellular data or WiFi by going to settings then cellular or settings than WiFi
2. click on your picture under settings, change it to what you want it to be again
3. click done or save
4. go back to settings and it’s changed

This is the correct solution. It seems to be a system bug. I hope they fix it.

For anyone trying to figure this out for your child’s device. You’re in luck, I figured it out after days of trying lol.

On their device

1. Open Screen Time
2. Click on Content & Privacy Restrictions
3. Turn it off at the top
4. Change the Apple ID photo
5. Turn it back on👍🏾