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Hi @djsteveb

I understand you might be disappointed to have troubles with the avatar feature, but this trouble is not a generic one, it’s specific to your WordPress configuration. Saying the following is very wrong:

The edit avatar / upload profile pic is still broken for new installs.

I can confirm everything works as expected.

Since BuddyPress 6.0, users can manage their local avatars (hosted on the community website) whether or not the xProfile component is active. See this developer note for more information about the changes we made in 6.0.

Below is a screenshot I just made having the xProfile component active :

Below is another screenshot I just made having the xProfile component inactive :

To control whether or not to allow users to manage their avatars from their profile page, as you said you can use the BP option about “Profile Photo Uploads”. Below is a screenshot of the BuddyPress options screen (Settings > BuddyPress).

If you uncheck “Profile Photo Uploads”, then users can’t manage their locally hosted avatars.

And there’s also a WordPress setting you need to pay attention to. If you decide that Avatars shouldn’t be shown globally on your WordPress site, then users cannot manage their local avatars from the front end. This WordPress setting is available from the Discussion settings screen (Settings > Discussion). See the screenshot below :

For instance, if you uncheck the “Avatar display” WP setting, then the page to manage avatars is not available even if “the Profile Photo Uploads” BP Option is checked. Here’s a screenshot below showing how a user’s profile page looks like when you globally disable Avatars in WordPress.

The page to manage user’s avatar is not available and the user’s profile header does not include the avatar.

Again, I confirm everything works as expected in BuddyPress, the issue you’re mentioning is specific to the way you configured WordPress &/or BuddyPress.