On the website, go to Settings->Profile and you see the Profile Picture settings from the above screenshot.
Click the button Remove Photo - the photo is reverted to the default anonymous silhouette.
Click Save Settings and wait for the “Saved…” message. When you get that message, the picture immediately reverts to the previous one. Visiting your profile confirms that the picture has not been changed.
Otherwise, the Upload New Photo function works, so I guess it’s not a big problem setting an anonymous picture yourself but still it’s a bug
I have an add-on bug to this. After I have removed my profile photo, my photo still shows up when I search for my name in a search engine, but on other countries’ versions of the iNaturalist sites, such as iNaturalist Guatemala and iNaturalist New Zealand. How can I completely remove my profile photo?
Hi, thank you for checking your servers! I removed it about 2 weeks ago. It’s not actually on my iNaturalist profile anymore, just showing up in a Google search for my name, under the images that come up. So, my profile photo comes up in the Google image search, and that photo links to here: https://guatemala.inaturalist.org/people/carlamardian For a while, there was another photo that linked to my profile at the New Zealand site. If my picture is no longer in my profile, and you don’t have the photo on your servers anymore, maybe it’s a Google search issue and they have it saved or cached somewhere?
I set it yellow myself. I removed it again now (still yellow though) and will wait some time to see if it finally changes. The URL for the profile picture has some trailing random number as a URL parameter that changes after a picture change and that is supposed to work around the browser/network cache.
Setting another picture has immediate effect, so I don’t think it’s something about the cache.
It looks like I can contact Google and request removal of outdated content from search results, as long as it no longer resides on the page or the servers Thank you!
No, doesn’t work. Uhh, it’s getting stranger. I tried to change to this PNG photo:
And it didn’t work. Then to this animated GIF:
Surprisingly it worked (but not animated).
Then I tried to remove this last one… and it reverted to my yellow one!
Then I tried to change to this GIF one:
And it reverted to… the animated one (not yellow this time).
I got a pattern!
Somehow the yellow one has become my default PNG profile photo (probably the first PNG i uploaded). So when I try to remove a PNG photo, it reverts to my yellow PNG.
Playing with the GIFs - the first GIF that I uploaded was turned into my default GIF profile photo, so when I remove a GIF profile photo - this animated one has become my default GIF revert profile photo.
When I changed to a JPG it worked. Then when I removed it I finally got the default iNat white-grey anon icon. Which is a PNG as it turns out but is my default JPG revert photo.
Thus I have three default photos (for each filetype) to which iNat reverts according to what filetype was my previous photo. Two of these seem to have been created when I first used the corresponding filetype as a profile photo.
The small mushrooms didn’t work, probably because they are too small (?) and instead get reverted to a corresponding default GIF/PNG/JPG photo.
Actually it does not accept any PNG or GIF photos anymore. If i try to set a PNG or GIF - it reverts to the first PNG (the yellow one) or GIF (animated warrior) i used. So the size of the mushrooms was probably not the problem.
So people will not be able to change a profile photo to PNG or GIF more than once, which makes the problem more than just about removing photos.
Last edit: it doesn’t exactly fit even that. Now I can’t even change my photo (can change just to a set of a few I already uploaded). I give up to understand what’s going on.
Could it be just my profile?
I also cannot edit my photo(or delete it). When I hit save it just reverts to old photo that I had previously. Cannot change username either. This is on mac desktop both Safari and Firefox.
Lol, I just tried to change my photo for the first time in years and it also did not go well.
I tried just adding a new photo and saving, and then it would automatically revert to old photo.
I tried again with just deleting. It “deleted” my photo. I hit save. My profile didn’t have a photo. Then I went back to add a photo and then hit save. The moment I hit save, my old photo reappeared. I did this twice with the same result. I guess I will keep the same photo for more time.
Thank you!
