Symmetry release notes

The Symmetry release notes list notable changes, improvements, and additions to the theme. Stay up-to-date with the latest release details by referencing this article.

Version 8.3.0 - March 26, 2026

Support for new customer account login, improved PDP sticky scrolling, Size Guide updates, other improvements and fixes

New

• Support for new customer account login
• Smarter scrolling for PDP and filters when there are large amounts of content
• Size Guide now handles unit conversion when other text is in cells, e.g. "up to 50cm"
• New Size Guide mobile image content layout controls
• New setting in 'Theme Settings > Layout' will toggle thin scrollbars
• Recommended products now reload when a Combined Listings product changes
• Visual indication of nested cart items

Fixes and improvements

• Added toggle for collage layout variant image highlight
• Update Size Guide help text to correctly describe the per-product metafield setup
• Fix 'Default variant' appearing on PDP
• Fix issue preventing Size Guide & Store Pickup from opening for Combined Listings products
• Fix minor issue with cropping of the first swatch in a complementary product
• Fade-out ineffective pagination chevrons in complementary products and cart drawer
• Revise accessible label in article links
• Removed whitespace (near 2k) loaded on every page to improve performance
• Resolved z-index issue that could cause a long PDP dropdown to show behind subsequent sections
• Resolve rare entirely-superficial JS error on cart add

Version 8.2.0 - February 2, 2026

New Size Guide builder, sibling product styles, accessibility improvements, and more

New

• Size Guide builder
• New layout options for the Logo list section (carousel, scrolling banner)
• Useful style options for sibling products PDP block
• Unit pricing now translatable
• Amara preset

Fixes and improvements

• A11y: Ensure header logo is first in tab order
• A11y: Add keyboard trigger to video section play button
• A11y: Improve header search result keyboard navigation
• A11y: Add header search screen reader announcements
• A11y: Use aria markup for collection filter disclosures
• A11y: Use focus trap in mobile nav and search drawer
• A11y: Add highlight to mobile nav localization selection
• Improve spacing around slideshow dots on mobile
• Improve app compatibility around the variant picker
• Improve variant change speed when using dropdown pickers
• Improve compatibility with subscription app
• Improve text-wrap balance in overlay titles
• Add a size constraint to blog article title
• Ensure Sticky Add To Cart handles missing buy buttons
• Buy It Now button will be visible when unavailable, and no longer disappear momentarily after click
• Prevent AI scrapers from seeing hidden product status information that was not relevant
• Tidy up alignment in Fit/Feature block
• Fix issue causing product image carousel to not change image correctly
• Fix very rare issue that resulted in a click on the product carousel not being respected
• Fix Sticky Add To Cart not always showing currently selected media
• Fix issue where variant picker is not shown for Combined Listings products with only one variant

Version 8.1.1 - December 2, 2025

A few compatibility updates

Fixes and improvements

• Allow Sticky Add To Cart to handle missing buy buttons
• Fix Sticky Add To Cart not always showing currently selected media
• Improve app compatibility around the variant picker

Version 8.1.0 - October 21, 2025

Support for new Shopify features and many other improvements

New

• Support for Extended Variants and improved Combined Listing product selection
• Footer Links blocks now have the option of 3 mobile layouts including Full Width, Half Width and Collapsed
• Background colour opacity slider added for product labels
• All sections are now categorised, making them easier to browse
• Added optional FAQPage scheme for collapsible tabs
• Setting to toggle Shop Pay Installments banner
• Setting to toggle the Blog tag filter
• Setting to set collapsible tabs as either open or closed by default

Fixes and improvements

• Improved layout for countdown timer when displaying in RTL
• 3D models now require interaction before loading
• Fix visual issue with 3D models where the poster image has a transparent background
• Fix a touch-drag issue with 3D models in a carousel
• Fix increased spacing around payment icons on mobile
• Fix announcement bar jump when text wraps
• Fix issue with arrows wrongly showing in the footer in iOS 17
• Fix visual issue with large swatch images on PDP

Version 8.0.0 - June 18, 2025

Restructured theme files for theme store redesign

Version 7.5.0 - May 14, 2025

A number of new features, accessibility improvements and bug fixes

New

• Icon columns PDP block - show up to three icons in a row
• Update icon set, add some new icons and add icon color settings
• Fully rounded button style
• Product image blending settings - mass-apply a custom background color to photos with a white background
• App block support in pop-up and cart
• Add transparent header fade settings for easy contrast improvement
• Add Color selector for Testimonial rating stars
• Add overlay padding options for Gallery section
• Footer links collapse on mobile, tidying up the area
• Countdown timer in Custom content section
• Color schemes in Custom content section
• Footer Newsletter button color option for ensuring contrast
• Add accessible 'Skip to product information' link to PDP sections
• Full width toggle in Custom link and Pop-up PDP blocks
• Support for Combined Listings

Improvements

• Refreshed the blog article grid design
• Updated the layout of cart page subtotals on mobile
• Auto-select next available variant option after prune
• Improve support for alpha transparency
• Improve accessibility of carousel controls
• Improve accessibility of quick buy
• Improve accessibility of cart drawer
• Improve accessibility of prices
• Improve accessibility of maps
• Improve customizer UX with conditional settings

Fixes and improvements

• Handle clicking on ATC before page loads
• Address brief logo jump on page load
• Fix Customize filters help link
• Fix HTML issue in Cart Cross Sells when using automatic recommendations
• Fix drag handling issue in product thumbnail carousel
• Fix focus-trap issue in cart drawer
• Fix minor visual issue with countdown timer in announcement bar on Firefox
• Fix contrast false flag regarding swatches in WAVE

Version 7.4.0 - January 10, 2025

A few new features and performance improvements, along with some fixes

New

• New sibling/swatch style layout for PDP product list block
• New option to show additional detail in cart items for single-variant products
• New settings for fine control of header font letter-spacing
• Add customisable hidden input to contact form sections

Fixes and improvements

• Improve image prioritisation to increase performance
• Improve appearance of multi-level bullet-point lists in RTE
• Improve handling of variant-not-selected error messages on iOS
• New fonts selected for presets where prior ones were deprecated
• RTL now optionally affects overlay placement (new advanced setting to disable)
• Fix Hotspots section causing horizontal scrolling when in RTL
• Fixed peek carousel layout issue when in RTL
• PDP carousel preloading is now tied to gallery preloading toggle
• Remove redundant HTML that appeared when using metafield product labels
• New stencil method used to avoid issues with certain Google fonts
• Improvements made to mouse drag handling in carousels
• Fixed variant selector not working for Greek on older stores where Shopify doesn't support creating handles with these characters
• Fixed HTML open/close tag mismatch in cart drawer
• Now handles Shopify's lack of support for cropping images wider or taller than 5760px
• Fix Shop the Look carousel not working when overlay does not contain 2 lines of text
• Fix '0 days' pop-up setting not working
• Fix iOS 18 Safari issue with browser bar covering checkout button
• Solved a few minor accessibility flags
• Fix tint being applied to collection card images when text shown underneath
• Fixed reduced-motion preference causing visual issue in scrolling banner
• Fix issue with Image with text overlay, when stacked on mobile, the RTE heading may have the wrong color
• Ensure RTE headings use the correct color in PDP text boxes and cart drawer

Version 7.3.0 - September 3, 2024

Support for new Shopify features and many other small improvements

Added

• Support for Shopify swatches (taxonomy-based)
• Support for native structured data
• Option to hide unavailable variant options, not just fade them out
• Sign in with Shop button on account login

Changed

• Sticky Add to Cart now enabled by default
• Handle new accelerated checkout button layout
• Size chart label moved into a theme setting (Note: Multilingual stores will require translations)

Fixes and improvements

• Dynamically adjust cursor to reflect zoom ability in product image viewer
• Improve handling of a screen resize while product image viewer is open
• Handle x.com domains in Twitter/X cards
• Support variant image swatches in the button style
• Midnight countdown now respects local store timezone
• Fix rare layout issue encountered in cart drawer notification
• Handle content for missing products in historical orders
• Minor layout fix for RTL PDP thumbnails
• Handle unexpected cart situations/errors with a cart reload
• Hide a few warnings from logs related to video media and cancelled requests

Version 7.2.1 - May 29, 2024

One minor bug fix

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fix: iOS-only issue with delayed initialisation of media grouping

Version 7.2.0 - May 28, 2024

'Sticky add to cart' added by popular demand! This update includes a variety of other improvements and fixes.

New

• Add Sticky Add To Cart feature
• Announcement bar can be coloured per announcement (also with gradients)
• Global setting added for disabling animations on the first section to improve LCP
• Cart status now refreshes after clicking browser back button
• Add example templates to show how our demo collection & product layouts are achieved
• Ability to add Custom Liquid/HTML to collapsible tabs on PDP

Bug fixes and improvements

• New setting to toggle the margin around the Custom Liquid & App sections
• Add autoplay setting for video in Custom content section
• Improve filter design for size facets
• Improve order tracking link design
• Preload product gallery zoom images for smoother image browsing
• Remove duplicated price range CSS
• Ensure product card URL changes after hovering over a swatch
• Move 'Select first variant' setting to section level to improve visibility
• Fix price range issue for low-price collections
• Fix blog grid layout with natural image sizes selected
• Fix footer signup heading not using correct colour
• Fix header icon layout changing after a dynamic cart update
• Fix product gallery navigation bug exhibited when browser smooth-scrolling is disabled
• Fix currency code sometimes disappearing on PDP
• Fix keyboard navigation in locale selector
• Fix rare unexpected checkout when using shipping calculator
• Fix a URL rewrite issue with the Featured product section when on a product page
• Fix rare scrolling issue with Featured product section on home page

Version 7.1.2 - February 8, 2024

A few refinements to the theme.

Important: Updating from v6? Please check each template (esp. product) carefully, as some blocks may need adding back in.

New

• Popular locales are now shown at the top of the locale selector

Bug fixes and improvements

• Remove block limit from Multi-column section
• Reduce space above PDP title
• Improve handling of irregular image sizes in the collection grid
• Limit cart page width

Version 7.1.1 - January 18, 2024

Minor bug fix to discount labels on the product page.

Version 7.1.0 - January 11, 2024

A few small improvements and fixes

New

• Add gift card recipient send date
• Add global image quality setting
• Add dropdown style option for swatch selector

Fixes and improvements

• Improve subcollections layout when only 1 or 2 items
• Fix rare header layout 'flip' issue
• Fix issue with cart notes saving
• Fix iOS background scrolling when in mobile nav
• Fix RTL PDP gallery thumbnail highlight
• Fix price filter max value placeholder rounding
• Fix a couple of Portuguese translations

Version 7.0.1 - December 14, 2023

A collection of minor fixes and tidies

Fixes and improvements

• Allow full width sections on 404 page
• Added guidance to ensure custom contact form inputs use valid labels
• Fix for blog tag filtering
• Fix for contact form section custom option layout
• Fix for Key features initial load position on mobile
• Fixes for keyboard navigation in product media gallery and Key features sections
• Fix text positioning issue in slideshow when using a full slide link
• Fix for inaccessible Key features links
• Fix for collage layout when using media grouping
• Fix for small last-thumbnail when using media grouping
• Fix for inventory notice appearing when not necessary
• Fix for subcollection carousel pagination alignment
• Improve small image scaling in subcollection images
• Improve small image scaling in collection cards

Version 7.0.0 - November 30, 2023

New

• Added Hotspots section
• Added Shop the look section
• Added Key features section
• Added Countdown timer (available in multiple sections, announcement, menu, PDP)
• Added Fit/feature rating PDP block
• Added Barcode PDP block
• Videos now supported in Gallery section
• Setting to allow autoplaying videos on PDP collage layout
• Text captions over product page images
• Support for Section Grouping
• Support for Gift Card Recipients
• Support for Search Suggestions
• Support for Follow on Shop link
• Setting to control whether clicking a parent link in the mobile nav follows link or shows child-menu
• Additional color options for sections, including gradient backgrounds
• Setting to control which sort orders display on collection pages
• Setting to adjust maximum site width
• Ability to always show certain media on the PDP when media grouping is enabled
• Customizable checkbox on contact forms

Fixes and improvements

• Performance-based rewrite to vanilla JS and native image loading
• Subcollections now use a collection list setting (and metafield), instead of menu
• Ensure external video URLs are compatible with metafields
• Remove theme 'Custom CSS' setting in favour of the native feature
• Use native video aspect ratio in Video with text and Custom content sections
• Fixed a free shipping bar calculation error
• Share icons now have individual visibility settings
• Improved accessibility in many areas
• Make footer copyright line editable

Version 6.0.3 - March 9, 2023

Fixes and improvements

• Fix issue with saving cart notes

Version 6.0.2 - February 10, 2023

Fixes and improvements

• Fix colour settings not used accurately in a few sections

Version 6.0.1 - February 8, 2023

Fixes and improvements

• Improve clarity of selected variant in quick buy
• Fix footer heading color setting

Version 6.0.0 - February 7, 2023

Added a cart drawer and support for new Shopify features

New

• Focal points support
• MP4 setting support
• Cart drawer
• Free shipping bar
• Overlay content width settings
• Allow removal of collection page heading

Fixes and improvements

• Improved clarity of selected/unavailable variant option visual state
• Added loading-spinner to product image gallery
• Fixed RTL visual anomaly in subcollection gallery
• Removed an unused setting in Featured product section
• Improved layout when displaying a cancelled order
• Cart page received some layout adjustments
• Improved pagination layout in article page on mobile
• Improved pagination layout on addresses page
• Fixed issue related to mobile nav colours, when using high contrast colour schemes
• Reduced risk of descenders being cropped on large slideshow text
• Improved scroll behaviour when adjusting collection filters on mobile
• Allow inventory check when 'Cart type' is 'Page'
• 'Sold out' button shows (instead of text) when a single variant product is unavailable
• (A11y) Improved tab focus highlighting in slideshow
• Fixed issue with Background video section not displaying overlay tint
• Show a spinner in the add to cart button while adding

Version 5.7.0 - January 12, 2023

A few small improvements

New

• Sections now allowed on all account pages
• Additional social media links added
• Add carousel mode for Complementary products

Fixes and improvements

• YouTube and Vimeo background videos now play on mobile
• Better favicon support for larger files and different file formats
• Improved resource loading for a performance boost
• Allow section headings to use metafields
• Add fade-on-scroll transitions to FAQ template
• Fix issue with quickbuy not fully closing

Version 5.6.0 - November 2, 2022

New scrolling banner section, new features including improvements to swatches and filtering, and some minor bug fixes.

New

• Setting to automatically apply 'Hide out of stock' after selecting a filter
• Support for multicolor striped swatches
• Settings for more control over Continue Shopping cart link
• Natural image height option for Gallery section
• New setting to replace Gift Card image
• New Complementary products block, to work with the Shopify Search & Discovery app
• New Scrolling banner section
• Custom CSS setting - add CSS without modifything theme code

Fixes and improvements

• Improve collection filtering performance through partial page rendering
• Improve performance of swatch CSS
• Improve page load performance through asset load and preload priority
• Prevent adding more of a product than is available on the cart page
• Prevent page scrolling when mobile nav is open
• Dynamic checkout buttons now hide fully when the variant is unavailable
• Fix alignment issue with swatch highlight in filter
• Align all product card images the same as the first image
• Fix encoding issue with swatch URLs
• Fix label ID mismatch on contact form
• Improve tab focus in product gallery zoom when there is only one image
• Use number inputs for quantities to improve accessibility
• Fix playback issues for products with multiple YouTube videos
• Products in mobile nav now follow image settings given in general settings
• Avoid extra space between words in headings with certain fonts
• Improve title HTML escaping
• Avoid invalid collection-containing URLs for related products
• Use theme style rounded corners on Dynamic Checkout Buttons
• Fix bug with inline nav dropdown position on iPad landscape layout
• Add workaround for iOS 15 bug affecting drilling down in mobile nav

Version 5.5.1 - July 5, 2022

A few small miscellaneous fixes and updates.

Fixes and improvements

• Fix button text changing incorrectly in reviews block
• Fix issue with dynamic checkout buttons disappearing after quantity updates
• Fix initial positioning on click in product zoom
• Fix issue with rapid removal of items in cart
• Improve cart drawer button alignment on small screens
• Use logo from Branding section on first install

Version 5.5.0 - June 13, 2022

We improved support for RTL languages and various currencies, and also improved SEO.

Added

• RTL language & layout support
• Add setting to open image/link product blocks in new tab
• Add custom dropdown option for contact form
• Add setting to choose different mobile menu links
• Add setting to toggle blog excerpts

Changed

• Allow multiple buttons in Rich text section
• Product-card URL changes when swatch is activated
• Improve currency format detection in the price-range filter
• Price and SKU now update if the buy buttons are removed
• Product cards may now link to the product without the collection in the URL - toggled by a setting
• All prices are now rendered in Liquid
• Optimize heading tags on home page and sections for SEO
• Automatically create excerpt for blogs if missing

Fixes and improvements

• Horizontal scrolling on tablets with 5-column mega menus
• Escape blog article title
• Rare image grouping issue on the product page that can cause ungrouped images to appear
• In blog, output truncated content if excerpt is missing

Version 5.4.1 - April 28, 2022

Italian support.

New

• Italian translations

Fixes and improvements

• Use thumbnail as poster image for externally hosted product videos
• Remove third party dependencies for product videos
• Reduce padding around overlay text on mobile

Version 5.4.0 - April 11, 2022

Support OS 2.0 sections on account login/register pages, and fixed visibility of new Store messages section off home page

New

• Support sections on login and register pages

Removed

• Removed theme-color meta tag

Fixes and improvements

• Ignore trailing spaces when matching link names for menu promos
• Fix moveable store messages section only showing on the home page
• Removed "Are you sure?" prompt from cart remove button
• Add newsletter tag to password page signups

Version 5.3.0 - April 8, 2022

New header features, and support for related products using metafields

Added

• New section: Product list (may be used with product reference list metafield for related products)
• New transparent header option
• New setting to choose from a selection of cart icons
• Ability to show multiple announcements in announcement bar
• New mega nav promo style - full width with text, image and buttons
• Support for boolean metafield filter

Changed

• Improved mega menu column wrapping
• Simple dropdown menu now shows a vertical list of links
• Product image zoom now loads zoomed out, and will not scale beyond 100%
• Change "Related items" product detail block to "Related products" and use the "product_list" setting, making it compatible with product reference list metafields

Fixes and improvements

• Improve swatches to support variants containing apostrophe, ampersand, comma
• Tidied up a couple of unused theme settings
• Fix price range filter layout to handle multi-character currency symbols
• Fix rare case where variants incorrectly shown as out of stock if variant option is numeric
• Fix alignment of price and quantity in order table
• Fix rare case where variant picker style is overridden by swatch picker style

Version 5.2.0 - February 24, 2022

New product page media and variant handling options.

Added

• New product gallery layout options
• New variant image grouping feature on product gallery
• New metafield support for subtitle and custom label in product grid
• New setting for margins above and below the Gallery section
• New setting to toggle selecting the first variant on page load
• New setting to enable top-down variant availability indication
• New setting to show or hide collection filters with zero results
• New setting for button style in footer newsletter signup
• New media size setting for Featured product section
• New setting to choose 1 or 2 products per row in product grids on mobile
• New setting for text alignment in collection grids

Changed

• Improved language support for swatches (including Japanese)
• Label setting now required in custom product options
• Handle more than one preorder template (template name must contain 'preorder')
• Allow two overlay labels to show in product grid
• Change heading styles in collapsible tabs, when using page content

Fixes and improvements

• Improve handling/wrapping of long text in the mobile nav
• Fix mobile nav not showing in iOS 13
• Fix inability to add a link to a slideshow unless overlay text was present
• Fix invalid HTML in custom product option
• Fix some buttons not display French translations correctly
• Fix low stock information not showing when using third party inventory handling
• Fix letter spacing issue in custom option dropdown
• Fix hidden title in blog section when added to article page
• Fix text orphan-prevention script not handling HTML correctly
• Tighten up space below testimonials section on mobile
• Improve lazy-loading in a few areas (nav, search, swatches)