How to keep color variants in the carousel - Dawn theme

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Topic summary

A product gallery behavior in Shopify’s Dawn theme hides images linked to other color variants when a specific color is selected. This forces viewers to select each variant in the picker to see all color options.

The requester finds this tedious and poor for user experience, as the slideshow/carousel only shows images for the active variant.

They want all color images to remain visible in the carousel regardless of the selected variant, so users can browse every color by using the slideshow arrows without changing the variant.

They are asking whether a setting or customization (CSS/HTML/theme code) exists to disable the variant-based image filtering and keep all variant images in the gallery.

No solution or decision has been provided yet; the thread is an open request for help.

Summarized with AI on January 5. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello,

On Dawn when a color variant is selected, all the images linked to other colors are hidden from the carousel/slideshow.

Which means that the only way to have a good view of all the colors is by selecting each color in the variant picker one after the other…

It’s tedious and not great for the viewer.

Is there a way to not hide the images associated with other variants in the slideshow?

So if someone clicks on the arrows in the slideshow they could see the other colors without having to click on all the variants of the variant picker?

Any help is appreciated!