--- title: Updates to metafield access controls — Shopify developer... description: Updates have been made to metafield access controls on Shopify. These updates allow apps to view the fields of metafield definitions they have access to but do... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/updates-to-metafield-access-controls-shopify-developer-changelog-gkt4vdabq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Updates to metafield access controls — Shopify developer changelog | daily.dev og:description: Updates have been made to metafield access controls on Shopify. These updates allow apps to view the fields of metafield definitions they have access to but do... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/updates-to-metafield-access-controls-shopify-developer-changelog-gkt4vdabq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gKt4VDabq.png og:image:alt: Updates to metafield access controls — Shopify developer changelog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Updates to metafield access controls — Shopify developer changelog **[Shopify Developer changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/shopifychangelog)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Updates have been made to metafield access controls on Shopify. These updates allow apps to view the fields of metafield definitions they have access to but do not own. The updates also affect the admin and storefront fields of access grants, returning values in more cases. The definitions that were created with a storefront access of NONE will now return NONE instead of null. Furthermore, the admin access control can now be set to PUBLIC_READ_WRITE. Learn more about these access controls on Shopify.dev. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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