Product updates

Canvas changelog

A record of improvements to storefront design, media, responsive layout, and Shopify publishing.

August 13, 2026

Canvas 1.0 release candidate

The Shopify-native design and publishing workflow is ready for launch review.

  • Freeform layer editing with move, crop, resize, rotation, stacking, locking, snapping, and multi-selection
  • Independent desktop and mobile artboards with guarded canvas boundaries
  • Shopify Files media workflow plus product, collection, and storefront links
  • Image and video generation in Canvas Desktop
  • Preflight review, theme app publishing, and three-version restore history

August 12, 2026

Layout precision and smart guides

Selection controls and geometry tools now support faster, safer composition work.

  • Eight-handle single- and multi-layer resizing
  • Smart guides for artboard, safe-area, and nearby-layer alignment
  • Zoom-invariant snapping with temporary, editor-only guide lines
  • Single-gesture undo and Escape-to-cancel resize behavior