- Short answer
- In Settings > Customer privacy > Cookie banner: turn off automated settings, then edit text under Content and set colors and position.
- Text you can edit (our development store, Oct 2026)
- Title, body, privacy policy link, the Accept, Decline and Manage preferences labels, and the preferences panel's wording.
- Colors (our development store, Oct 2026)
- Light, Dark or Custom.
- Positions (our development store, Oct 2026)
- Center, Bottom full-width, Bottom center, Bottom left or Bottom right.
- Translations
- Professional translations are provided automatically for themes built by Shopify.
- Custom CSS
- Not described for the banner on the Shopify pages we read, October 2026.
Edit the banner text
Per Shopify's steps:
- Go to Settings > Customer privacy > Cookie banner.
- Turn off Use automated settings.
- Under Content, click Edit, change the text, then click Done.
- Click Save.
- Settings
- Customer privacy
- Cookie banner
In our development store on October 17, 2026, Edit opened a Customize dialog: an optional title, the body, the privacy policy link label and URL, and the Accept, Decline and Manage preferences button labels.
- Settings
- Customer privacy
- Cookie banner
- Content
- Settings
- Customer privacy
- Cookie banner
- Content
Its Cookie preferences block holds the preferences panel's wording, down to each cookie category's description.
Automated mode keeps your privacy setup matched to Shopify's recommendations for compliance; with it off, keeping the wording current is yours.
Translate the banner text
When you add a language, Shopify automatically provides professional banner translations for themes built by Shopify; if a language isn't available, a warning message displays. Find yours by name in the available translations list.
Shopify's help routes translation through More actions > Localize. In our development store on October 17, 2026, that menu held only View consent log and Set custom banner regions. Shopify's help also documents a route that skips that menu: Apps > Translate & Adapt, then Cookie banner in the Online store section, where you translate the banner manually or automatically.
Change the colors and position
- Under the banner preview, pick an option in Colors, then click Save.
- In Position, choose where the banner shows, then click Save.
- Optional: click View in Position to preview it on your store.
- Settings
- Customer privacy
- Cookie banner
In our development store, Colors offered Light, Dark and Custom, and Position offered Center, Bottom full-width, Bottom center, Bottom left and Bottom right.
- Settings
- Customer privacy
- Cookie banner
No Help Center or shopify.dev page we read on October 17, 2026, Customer privacy and theme settings pages included, describes restyling the banner with CSS, code or the theme editor. The one class the privacy settings page documents, shopify-dns-link-icon, targets the Your Privacy Choices icon.
Shopify names a third-party cookie banner app or consent management platform as an alternative to these settings, set to the same consent regions. Weigh whether the native banner or a consent app fits your store.
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