Embedded App Navigation Bug on Root Path (Affects All Apps)

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Hey,

I’ve noticed a bug in the main navigation when opening embedded apps in the admin.

If I open the app directly on its root path — for example:

https://admin.shopify.com/store/mystore/apps/search-and-discovery

— it appears as though the first submenu item (in this case, Filters) is selected by default, even though that’s not actually the route I’ve landed on.

This behavior is consistent across all embedded apps, and I remember a similar issue occurred a few months ago. Not sure if this is something in the admin shell or related to App Bridge.

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Would be great if the team could take a look!

Thanks!

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I am seeing this on all apps aswell. It sounds like a change was deployed a few hours ago to address another issue with the navigation. I’ve followed up via an existing thread on Slack letting them know that we’re now seeing this new issue.

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Thanks for confirming.

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Just chiming in to add our voice — we’re also experiencing this issue.

Tagging @Liam-Shopify in hopes it helps move things along :folded_hands:
At this point, it seems like tagging Liam is the most proactive thing we can do to help get this resolved :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I can confirm, this issue affects all apps, this can be misleading for merchants. This needs to be fixed urgently. @Liam-Shopify @Shaun_Stanworth

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Hi folks,

Thanks for flagging this - we’re currently investigating this issue. Will update here when there’s more to share.

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We shipped an update recently - is this still appearing for devs here?

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Embedded App Navigation Bug

I just tested this again on my store with all caches disabled and a full hard reload — the issue is still present :eyes:

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@Liam-Shopify I can confirm this is still happening across all our apps. You can easily test it on Shopify’s Search & Discovery app.

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Hey folks - sorry for the confusion, the fix has not shipped yet but it should later today. I’ll update here once it’s in production.

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Hi again folks - this should be resolved now. Let us know if you’re still seeing this issue.

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@Liam-Shopify still not fully fixed. I can still replicate it across all our apps and some apps from other Partners. Not happening to all apps now, though.

Not sure if that’s related, but we use the web component and not the React component.

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Hi, just confirming that everything works fine on our side now. We’re using React components for navigation. Thanks a lot for the fix! :handshake:

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Still broken on our side. We also can replicate it across our apps and other people’s apps. We use <ui-nav-menu> with <a> links.

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Fixed for our apps. We use <NavMenu> React component with TanStack <Link>.

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I spoke with someone from the AppBridge team yesterday. The issue is still not fixed for apps that have something other than root / as their app URL. A fix is on the way.

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I can confirm it is fixed on our side as well.

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It works for us.
Thank you!