Dawn theme 15.2 - How do you match Thumbnail Carousel images to Pills & Product Images?

Technical Q&A
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Topic summary

A user is experiencing a synchronization issue between three elements on a Shopify Dawn theme 15.2 product page: thumbnail carousel images, variant pill buttons, and main product images.

Current Problems:

  • Clicking carousel thumbnails doesn’t trigger any useful action
  • Variant pills don’t correspond to the correct product images
  • The first pill remains constantly selected when it should be deselected for the media icon
  • Example given: Sweden can be selected via image pills, but these don’t link to the correct product images

User’s Concerns:

  • Risk of customers selecting wrong products during ordering
  • Unable to find solutions on YouTube or other forums

Requested Solutions:

  1. Code to properly link all three elements together
  2. Alternative: Code to remove the carousel entirely if linking isn’t possible
  3. Consideration of using a product slider instead of thumbnail carousel linked to pills
Summarized with AI on November 3. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I want to connect Thumbnail carousel images to variant pill buttons corresponding to a product image of a viewed product. Clicking on the carousel image currently does nothing useful and the pills do not match back to the image. The first pill is constantly on /selected when it should be off for the Media icon. As you know, the nails show product images, as do pills, but the 3 are not linked. How do I fix this.

I can’t have customers select the wrong products when ordering. I can not find a solution to this problem on YouTube or other forums.

The image shows the mismatch problem: Sweeden can be selected, but the image country pills are not linked to the correct product images. Thanks!

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  1. Hello, if the above linking can not be done, what is the code to remove the carousel entirely, as it serves little purpose? 2. Potentially have a product slider rather than a thumbnail carousel link to pills.