Feature settings act as master toggles for major theme functionality. Enabling or disabling features here affects their availability throughout your entire theme, providing centralized control over what capabilities are active in your store.
What these settings control
- Search functionality and predictive search
- Quick add to cart capabilities
- Navigation breadcrumbs display
- Product variant picker styles
- Animation and motion preferences
- Product image zoom functionality
- Social media sharing buttons
How to access
Open the Theme Customizer
From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store → Themes → Customize.
Navigate to features
In the theme editor sidebar, select Theme settings → Features.
Toggle features
Enable or disable features using the checkboxes.
Save changes
Click Save to apply feature changes across your store.
Settings
Search & Discovery
Product Features
Navigation
Engagement
Enable search: Controls whether the search feature is available in your store. We recommend keeping this enabled for stores with more than 20 products.Enable predictive search: Adds instant search results as customers type. Requires “Enable search” to be enabled.Disabling search may significantly impact user experience and conversion rates for stores with extensive inventories.
Enable quick add: Allows customers to add products to cart directly from collection pages without visiting product pages.Product variant picker: Choose how product variants are displayed.
Dropdown: Traditional select menu, compact and familiar
Pills: Visual button-style selector, more engaging (recommended for color/size variants)Enable image zoom: Allows customers to hover over product images to see zoomed details (desktop only).
Enable breadcrumbs: Shows navigation trail (Home > Collection > Product) helping customers understand their location. We recommend keeping this enabled for better navigation and SEO.
Enable animations: Controls whether elements animate when scrolling into view. The theme respects prefers-reduced-motion accessibility settings automatically.Enable social sharing: Adds social media share buttons to product pages.
Best practices
- Enable search and predictive search for stores with 20+ products
- Use Pills for visual variants (color, size), Dropdown for technical options or 10+ variants
- Test quick add functionality with your specific products before keeping it enabled
- Keep animations enabled as theme respects accessibility preferences automatically
- Monitor feature usage in analytics and disable underused features
- Test features on actual mobile devices, not just browser emulation
Feature changes apply immediately but may require clearing browser cache to see updates on previously visited pages.
