Summary Using a public app’s offline Admin API token, one existing and published collection cannot be read through the Collection object: collection(id:) returns null node(id:) returns null collections(query: "handle:...") returns no results collections(query: "title:...") does not include it Ho…

Hey folks - thanks for the candid feedback. I’m continuing to share it internally. I recognize the direct impact this has had on your apps. If you’re facing any specific migration blockers, please share them here and we’ll do our best to help work through them. @Tom_Chan - thanks for sharing those …

Chiming in here with our experience. This broke a lot of things related to collections for our app and we were getting a ton of complaints from merchants. Our backend also uses the Shopify API ruby gem, and as of the time of this comment, the gem does not yet support 2026-07 ( source ). Because of thi…

Can someone from the Shopify dev team tell us what is going on? Why did all of us were forced to update from one day to another to an API version at gun point? Is this the way we should expect API releases to be now? Break everything and acknowledge frustrations but do nothing later?

Shopify Plus support’s response (see below) is a complete joke. They’re forcing the new collection model with zero opt-out, making new collections invisible on pre-2026-07 API versions. No fallback, no backward compatibility, no grace period, no active alarm—just straight-up breaking production setu…

Hey folks - thanks to everyone who’s shared feedback of the impact on your apps and merchants. We’ve heard the feedback and have some additional context to share for clarity. To start, it’s important to mention that collections that only use features supported by earlier Admin API versions remain r…

[image] Wes-Dev-Shopify: To start, it’s important to mention that collections that only use features supported by earlier Admin API versions remain readable and manageable in those earlier versions. The null response only occurs when a collection uses new model features that versions before 2026…

Just spent the last hour trying to workout why a particular collection on one of my merchant stores wasn’t showing up via the GQL API… then found this thread, I’m honestly pretty shocked that Shopify introduced a breaking change here and didn’t give us forward warning of it. It seems now when any m…

I am genuinely shocked by Shopify. Imagine if the same happens to products, customers, or orders, the impact could be even more disastrous…Shopify’s attitude and approach are more concerning than this issue alone.

Hey folks - these are valid concerns, and I’m sharing this feedback with the team. [image] Tom_Chan: We haven’t implemented any new features. The new collection uses the exact same legacy rules (1 vendor + 1 product type) as our old, working collection. Stop deflecting this onto us. The issue …

Hi @Wes-Dev-Shopify Hope that it helps: 779dcfb457904a4617c59fe6d2057990 (return null) You may also compare it to the below request. Both collections look the same to me, except the above one is opened after your upgrade. 8a1b5c4fba186f1e846897c69a02a496 (X-request-id)

We have ~120.000 error logs that say otherwise. Tuesday when this issues started to happen for us, our client hasn’t even started to use this feature and most collections were returning null in 2026-01 API version, causing errors all across our application. Even if hypothetically this feature rele…

Collection returns null via collection(id:), node(id:), and handle search, but its products are queryable

GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting

Soufiane_Ghzal July 24, 2026, 8:18pm 19

For everyone’s information about how Shopify handled this, on june 19 @diana_cheptene said:

Topic		Replies	Views
Introducing the New Collections API (2026-07) — Developer Preview Products and Orders APIs admin-api-collection	110	3609	August 12, 2026
Old API versions return NULL for old collections turned into new collections Products and Orders APIs admin-api-collection	2	37	August 16, 2026
Admin graphql collection fetch does not work on 2026-04 GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting general-gql-troubles	2	65	July 29, 2026
Collection by handle is broken for collection graphql GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting general-gql-troubles	3	109	March 8, 2025
Please flag GraphQL Migration blockers here GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting rest-migration	32	1074	July 20, 2026

Collection returns null via collection(id:), node(id:), and handle search, but its products are queryable

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