- Short answer
- In Shopify's Horizon and Dawn themes, turn off the collection template's Sorting switch; it hides the whole menu, not single options.
- Filters
- Filtering has its own switch in the same block or section, so filters can stay.
- Search page
- Search results have their own Sorting setting; turn it off there separately.
- Product order
- Set in the admin under Collection items > Default sort; the Sorting switch doesn't change it.
- Single options
- No per-option switch: rename items in the language editor, or edit theme code.
How do you turn off Sort by in Horizon and Dawn?
Names come from the code of Shopify's Horizon and Dawn themes, read October 14, 2026; the clicks follow Shopify's steps for editing a section.
- In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes and click Edit theme.
- From the Home page drop-down menu, select your collection template.
- In the sidebar, click Collection (Horizon) or Product grid (Dawn).
- In Horizon, click the Filtering and sorting block.
- Turn off Sorting and click Save.
In the Dawn copy in our development store, checked October 14, 2026, the sorting switch is labeled Enable sorting.
What changes when Sorting is off?
In the code of both themes the menu renders only while Sorting is on, so turning it off removes the whole menu. Three things stay separate:
- Filters. Filtering has its own switch in the same block or section; in Dawn the whole filter-and-sort panel disappears only when both are off.
- Search page. Search results have their own Sorting setting, in Horizon's Search template and Dawn's Search results section; turn it off there too.
- Product order. Products follow the collection's Default sort, set in the admin under Collection items; the Sorting switch doesn't change it.
Can you remove only some Sort by options?
Not with this switch. Removing one option means editing theme code: the menu is your theme printing the collection's sort options. None of the pages we read in October 2026 (Shopify's sort_option and collection template docs, plus its change-wording and themes help pages) describes removing one option without editing theme code.
Without code, you can rename the options in the language editor.
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