Settings for cloned custom role does not work

Hello,

I have some test users on my test site that have a wordpress default user role, like Author, and they have backend access to wordpress. I want to restrict only a small portion of these Author users’ admin menu options. Rather than creating a whole new role for them just to customise a tiny portion, I cloned the role using a third party plugin. This is so I can change just one element of the clone’s permissions, rather than creating an entire new role and set every capability separately.

Then I used AAM to set the backend menu items for the cloned role. I restricted part of the menu for the cloned role menu.

However when checked by logging in to a test user’s account who has the cloned role, that user still has all the menu items that is visible to the default Author.

Since for now I have only a few users, I tried another method: in AAM’s settings, I used the “user” tab to set the backend menu settings for each individual user that is supposed to have the cloned role. This worked. But this method is tedious since I would have to manually set the menu for each individual user each time one signs up, which is why I thought I could just assign certain users this cloned role, but this method did not work

Could you help? I have wordpress 6.6 and AAM 6.9.35 and it is not a multisite.

Thank you so much for a great plugin.