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Will updating Volume erase my customizations?

What a Volume update keeps, what it does not, and how to move to a new version without losing your work.

An update never touches your published theme. Shopify installs the new version of Volume as a separate theme in Online Store → Themes, so your live store keeps running on the old version until you publish the new one yourself.

What happens to your work depends on where that work lives. The rule of thumb: anything you did in the theme editor travels with the update; anything you did in Edit code does not.

Carried over automatically

These are stored as settings rather than as code, so the update brings them along:

  • All Theme settings — colours, typography, layout, animations, cart behaviour and the rest.

  • The sections and blocks on every template, their settings, and their order.

  • Your header, footer, menu drawer and overlay content.

  • Anything typed into a section's or block's Custom CSS field.

  • Code sitting in a Custom Liquid section, a Custom HTML section, or a Custom Liquid block inside another section.

Not carried over

Edits made in Edit code stay behind in the old theme and have to be re-applied by hand. That includes changes to any .liquid file, added snippets, extra assets, and styles pasted into base.css.

Storefront wording you changed through Edit default theme content lives in the theme's language files, so give a few of your edits a quick look after updating and keep a note of them beforehand.

1

Update Volume

  1. Go to Online Store → Themes.

  2. Find Volume in the theme list and open the Update available notice.

  3. Let Shopify create the updated copy. It appears as an unpublished theme.

2

Check the copy before publishing

  1. Open Preview on the new theme.

  2. Walk through your home page, a collection, a product, the cart and the checkout entry point.

  3. Re-apply any code edits you had in the old version.

  4. If the release added or reworked a section you use, open it in the editor and confirm its settings look the way you expect.

3

Publish

Once the preview looks right, click Publish. Keep the old theme unpublished for a week or two as a fallback.

If your old version was customized in the code editor, ask whoever made those changes to write them down before you update. Volume's files change between releases, so an old snippet may not drop cleanly into the new version.

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Every release and what changed in it is listed in the Volume release notes.

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