Discovered this issue as part of fixing related  issue 734789 .

The currently selected profile icon is a data URI (don't know why). The available icons are chrome://theme URLs, see sceenshot.

The code to pre-poulate the grid with the currently selected icon (see [1], [2]) clearly assumes that it should be one of the available icons, therefore no icon is pre-selected.

[1] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/resources/settings/people_page/people_page.html?l=280
[2] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/resources/settings/people_page/manage_profile.html?l=37

Note: This used to work in old Options, so need to investigate what changed.

+tommycli,mahmadi: It seems to me that this never actually worked, any help appreciated.  This is getting on my way for  issue 734789  (https://codereview.chromium.org/2950943002) since we have tests that seemingly test this functionality, but in the tests the data is always consistent unlike prod.
 

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