Missing Features - Edit SKUs Pop-Up and Can't Drag & Drop Image Directly to Variant??

Topic summary

Missing admin capabilities when editing product variants: users can no longer drag-and-drop an image directly onto a specific variant. Instead, images must be uploaded first, then manually assigned to variants, adding multiple steps and time, especially for catalogs with 50+ variants.

Bulk SKU editing appears removed or altered: there is no quick pop-up to edit SKUs like prices/quantities. Selecting all variants is cumbersome because many variants are hidden on another page; users must check a box, scroll to the bottom to “select all,” then return to the top to bulk edit.

Impact: workflows are significantly slowed and become “nightmare” for large variant sets. Users report the change for about a week and initially suspected OS/browser issues, but it seems platform-side.

Context and terms: SKUs (Stock Keeping Units) identify individual variant items; variants are product option combinations.

Status: no acknowledged fix or guidance in the thread; users hope this is a temporary change and seek restoration before the winter update. Discussion remains open and unresolved.

Summarized with AI on December 29. AI used: gpt-5.

As the title says, I can no longer drag and drop images from my computer files to the variant directly, I now have to drag files to the upload box and then click the blank box beside the variant, then choose the correct image. I don’t have time for all this extra clicking and choosing. This process also makes things incredibly difficult and even more time-consuming when I have listings with many (50+) variants.

There is also no ability to select all (what is up with hiding variants on a different page instead of letting me scroll down???) and add SKUs in the way that you can change prices, quantities etc. and am forced to click the check box to select all, go all the way to the bottom of the page to click the text to select all variants thanks to the rest being hidden, then mouse all the way back up to bulk edit instead of getting a nice little pop up that was there before.

Is there any way to get these features back before the winter change? I am always so baffled as to why Shopify changes vital things like this nuking workflows and streamlines to make them far more complicated than they need to be.

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I have this issue as well, it’s been like this for about a week. Thought it was an issue with my OS or browser but its not. It’s a nightmare to work with many variants like this, I hope this gets fixed and its not a permanent change.

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Same issue here. Nightmare to do the variant edit.

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