EDIT: Nevermind, I spoke too soon. In regards to the icon not being changed, after closing all of my Brave windows, the “default” profile shortcut went back to the normal Brave icon (like the 2nd photo below). Maybe someone can provide some additional input as to other steps to try?
Thanks for that. Using the Github issue and the other community board post I was able to come up with a workaround. Mind you, this is still a workaround and I hope the dev team is able to fix this issue on native installs so future users don’t have to do this. Here’s what I did:
Right click on the shortcut that doesn’t work. Right click on Brave, right click on properties. A menu pops up(first image below). Add the flag --profile-directory="Default" using the guide located here to figure out what profile directory name you wish to use. (Be careful that you don’t use your computer’s fancy curly braces, as that will cause Brave to autocreate new profiles called "Default" instead of Default. Just copy and paste the flag from above.) That fixes the shortcut but the icon will still be blank, like the second image below. To fix that, go back to the shortcut properties menu, and click Change Icon, passing the following path: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\[desired profile path]\Google Profile.ico. You’ll get the proper icon then, as shown in the 3rd photo below.
