P: Allow Named People thumbnail photo to be changed

Lighroom has chosen to "feature" a sad photo of my relative in their final days, which is not how I'd like to remember this person.  The lack of this feature is inexcusable.

This thread is 8 years old. And still, nobody cares. Perhaps we will need to wait another 8 years...

Here we are in Feb of 2023 and this is still an outstanding issue.  To add insult to injury, I'm certain I remember this being a feature in Elements.  Please let me choose the images for people.

It blows my mind that this hasn't been implemented already. In fact the whole "People" section could do with an overhaul.

Disappointed that this feature isn't available in Classic, seems fairly fundamental.

Please add the ability to choose your own thumbnail for People in Lightroom.

"How do I do this?"

In LR Classic (the original, folders-based LR), you can't.

In the LR cloud versions (mobile, web, desktop) I don't know if you can -- you'll have to post to the LR cloud forum:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based/ct-p/ct-lightroom?page=1&sort=latest_replies&lang=all&tabid=all

If you don't know which app you're running, do Help > System Info and look at the first line. 

How do I do this?

When you mark a person in a photo, Lightroom itself chooses (apparently at random) the photo to display on the "cover". Do you know if you can somehow select this photo yourself? Ligthroom always chooses the most nightmarish and atypical one ))

Select, displaying here, as in the attached screenshot.

In the old days, I could use Google Photos to people tag all my photos, so it's nice that Lightroom Classic has such a feature. What it seems to lack is a way to choose which thumbnail will be the default one in the Named People window.  Is there a way of doing this (other than picking a good pic first)?