How can I add a quick view button to my studio theme on Shopify?

Store Design

Topic summary

Goal: Add a “quick view” button to product thumbnails on collection pages and featured collection sliders in the Shopify Studio theme (version 1.0.0).

Support guidance: Shopify advised uninstalling the current theme and publishing Studio version 3.0.1, which includes a built‑in quick view feature. Screenshots were attached, but they are not essential to understand the request.

Constraint: The store does not want to replace the current theme due to extensive custom code, settings, and custom pages that would be difficult to migrate.

Request: Help implementing a quick view feature within the existing Studio 1.0.0 theme instead of upgrading.

Status: No solution or action decided yet; the thread is seeking guidance and remains open.

Summarized with AI on February 9. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hii there !

currently i am using studio theme ( version 1.0.0) and i want to add quick view button on my product thumbnails on college pages & featured collection sliders . & i raised a ticket regarding the same on shopify help tab & they asked to uninstall the current version of studio theme & download & publish the new version of studio theme ( version 3.0.1) as it has quick view thing prebuild with the theme ( screenshots attached )

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but we do not want to uninstall the current version & adds a new version as all our custom code settings , custom pages & everything will be lost , & to copy paste them from old version to new version is also pretty difficult

so please help us in adding this quick view option in our current theme version only ( studio theme , version 1.0.0 )