Users are requesting the ability to set a default sorting method for the Products page in Shopify admin, specifically to sort by “Newest Product First” instead of the current default “Product Title (A-Z)”.
Current Issue:
The sorting preference resets to A-Z every time users navigate away and return to the Products page
Creating custom views doesn’t allow saving sort order preferences
This requires manually changing filters repeatedly throughout the day
Official Response:
A Shopify representative confirmed that product sort options are static and cannot be saved in custom views
The feedback has been shared with developers for potential future implementation
Suggested workaround: Keep the Products page open in a dedicated tab with the preferred sort applied, and open other pages in new tabs
Status:
No solution has been implemented as of the most recent posts
Multiple users continue to request this feature, noting it’s a standard capability in competing platforms like Amazon
The discussion remains open with no timeline for when this functionality might be added
Summarized with AI on November 1.
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On the Products page is there anyway to make it so the default list filter is for Newest Product First? Whenever I navigate away from the page and back again it defaults back to Product Title (A-Z).
I’ve tried creating a new view using the + option and this allows me to create and name one, but it doesn’t seem to allow me to actually set any filters i.e. when I click on the new view I just created, it just has the same filter parameters as the default settings and I don’t know how to change them to list newest first.
I was just trying to find an answer to this as well, I haven’t found a solution on my own. Main Menu Navigation Tabs defaulting to a-z don’t know how to change. Not a problem with collections but for this it seems to be hiding.
Yeh it’s super-annoying…it might only take a few seconds to change the filters to what you want but doing this 100’s of time a day is starting to make me pull my hair out (and there’s not that much left of it tbh!)
Thank you for sharing this feedback. You are correct that the product sort option is static and cannot be saved in a different view at this time. I fully recognize how this can be tedious when moving around the admin and constantly resorting your product list every time you open it again. I have shared this feedback with our developers directly and hopefully we can consider adding this in the future.
In the interim I recommend maybe trying to keep your product list page open in it’s own tab and open product details or other admin pages in a new tab.