diff --git a/client/ui/services/profileswitcher.go b/client/ui/services/profileswitcher.go
index 1b3d2ba43..5fd8ae1ca 100644
--- a/client/ui/services/profileswitcher.go
+++ b/client/ui/services/profileswitcher.go
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+
+	"github.com/netbirdio/netbird/client/internal/profilemanager"
 )
 
 // ProfileSwitcher encapsulates the full profile-switching reconnect policy so
@@ -62,6 +64,21 @@ func (s *ProfileSwitcher) SwitchActive(ctx context.Context, p ProfileRef) error
 		return fmt.Errorf("switch profile %q: %w", p.ProfileName, err)
 	}
 
+	// Mirror the daemon-side switch into the user-side ProfileManager state
+	// (~/Library/Application Support/netbird/active_profile on macOS, the
+	// equivalent user config dir elsewhere). The CLI's `netbird up` reads
+	// from this file (cmd/up.go: pm.GetActiveProfile()) and then sends the
+	// resolved name back in the Login/Up RPC — if it diverges from the
+	// daemon-side /var/lib/netbird/active_profile.json, the daemon will
+	// silently switch its active profile to whatever the CLI sends, so the
+	// next CLI `up` after a UI switch reverts the profile. Failures here
+	// don't abort the switch (the daemon is the authority; the local
+	// mirror is a cache the CLI consults), but they leave the CLI's view
+	// stale until the next successful switch — surface as a warning.
+	if err := profilemanager.NewProfileManager().SwitchProfile(p.ProfileName); err != nil {
+		log.Warnf("profileswitcher: mirror to user-side ProfileManager failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
 	if needsDown {
 		if err := s.connection.Down(ctx); err != nil {
 			log.Errorf("profileswitcher: Down: %v", err)