Shopify Search & Discovery

It's possible that your online store theme has not been updated to display color swatches. We recommend downloading a recent version of a free Shopify theme, like Dawn, and preview color swatch filters in an unpublished theme. If the colors show up as expected, you can contact your theme's developer on how to get an updated theme, or you could try a different theme from the Theme Store that has been updated to support color swatches.

We know that some merchants see a blank/clear color swatch whenever the online store theme's codebase isn't using Shopify's native color swatch solution. Sometimes a theme developer will have built their own custom solution for that theme instead of using the platform features.

The "Out of Stock Products" setting is under the "Search relevance" section of the app settings. It controls how out of stock products and variants are handled in search results. This setting does not affect how out of stock products and variants are handled on Collection pages. You can read a bit more about this setting in the public Help docs at https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/search-and-discovery/search#search-result-types