Search opens as an overlay from the magnifier in any style’s header. As the shopper types, live suggestions appear — products with images and prices, plus matching pages and articles — and pressing enter runs a full search.
What you can influence
- What is searchable comes from your catalog: titles, descriptions, tags, and vendors. Well-tagged products surface better.
- Synonyms and boosts — the Shopify Search & Discovery app lets you define synonyms (“espresso” finds “coffee”) and boost chosen products in results. The theme honors all of it.
- The results page uses the same card grid as collections, with filters available there too.
The search input truncates its placeholder gracefully on small phones — if you ever see it cut off oddly, you are on an old theme version; update to current.