Product Page needs to show product image and not first variant

Store Design
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Topic summary

A user is experiencing an issue where product pages display the first variant’s image instead of the featured product image when the page loads. They are using Dawn Theme version 12.0.0 and have made custom code modifications, making generic solutions unsuitable without risking loss of their customizations.

Current Status:

  • The issue remains unresolved
  • At least one other user reports experiencing the same problem
  • One commenter suggests no solution may exist for this issue

Key Constraint:
The original poster needs a solution that preserves their existing custom code edits and is willing to provide relevant code snippets to assist with troubleshooting.

Summarized with AI on November 1. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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When I land in a product page, the first image I see is the image of the first variant product, but I would like the featured image to be displayed by default when I land in the product page.

Please know I have edited my code in several ways to customize my store so I can’t copy and paste a generic or standard code to complete this if it means I lose my other edits. I can provide a copy of whatever I need to to assist with this.

I’m using the Dawn Theme, Version 12.0.0

I would appreciate if someone could help with this!

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Bump.

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Have the same issue as well as many others. Think there are no solution for this.