Why do I have a generic icon when booting in Big Sur?

[blackxacto]

My Apple account has a personal image as my icon. Why is my administrator account icon blank when booting my Big Sur iMac?

 

[scoblep]

Go into Users & Groups in System Prefs. and make sure the image is set on your local admin account. Your Apple ID/iCloud avatar is separate from that one.

 

[blackxacto]

Users & Groups is set on my administrative account which contains my chosen account image icon. But booting Big Sur then choosing the administrative account icon is a blank or default icon.

 

[blackxacto]

SOLUTION: Apple Tech showed me that the Icon picture for [Users and Goups] is a separate object from my iCloud Account. So I can have any image for me as the Administrator/User on my computer, but my iCloud account icon remains the same on all devices. Hard to grasp at first, but makes sense. A user on my iMac can have any icon they want, separate from their own iCloud account.

 

[blackxacto]

Users & Groups is set on my administrative account which contains my chosen account image icon. But booting Big Sur then choosing the administrative account icon is a blank or default icon.

I'm sorry. I misspoke. It was not set using the specific image. I had to specifically change both [iCloud] and [User & Groups] the correct image, which I chose to be the same image.