How to remove social media icons that is not part of the theme

Topic summary

Unwanted social media share icons were overlaying product images. The theme developer said they weren’t part of the theme, suggesting a third‑party app/script as the source.

  • Proposed fix: add a small custom snippet into the head section of theme.liquid (Shopify’s main layout file) via Online Store → Theme → Edit code. Screenshots were provided; attachments are central to seeing the issue and the fix location.
  • Outcome: The original poster confirmed the icons were removed after applying the code.

A second user reported a similar issue caused by a third‑party tool (SUMOME) adding share icons across images. The earlier code change did not help them initially, and they asked how to remove the icons. A responder later noted it seemed the user had successfully deleted them, but the user did not explicitly confirm.

Status:

  • Original case: resolved by editing theme.liquid.
  • Second case: likely resolved (based on a responder’s observation), but not explicitly confirmed.

Key takeaway: The icons stem from external apps/scripts; removal can be done via theme code or by disabling/removing the source app.

Summarized with AI on December 25. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi,

I am struggling to figure out how to remove this social media icons on my website, I already contacted the theme developer and they told me that it’s not part of theme and I may have downloaded an app. I already checked the apps I downloaded and none of them is related to social media. Please let me know how to get this resolved, thank you. Website: smartysprouts.us

You can try this code by following these steps:
Step 1: Go to the online store ->Theme ->Edit Code.
Step 2: Find the theme.liquid file and add the following code to the head tag


After modification, it will be removed from the page.

Hopefully it will help you. If yes then Please don’t forget hit Like and Mark it as solution!

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This solved it. Thank you so much!!

Thank you for your reply. I’m glad to hear that the solution worked well for you.
If you require any more help, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Hello,

I am having a similar problem but this didnt seem to work for me. I have what I think is a third party app called SUMOME that puts the same social media share icons across every image in my website just like the images in the original post of this thread. I would like to just remove / delete these share icons from popping up everywhere on the images of my website. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

It seems that you have successfully deleted it.