What changed: Shopify released improved support for three right-to-left languages - Arabic, Urdu and Hebrew - across Admin and Storefronts, including checkout, customer accounts and the Horizon theme family. Display language is set by the user's device settings when available; merchant-owned content like product pages keeps showing in the languages the owner has enabled.
Who is affected
The source doesn't explicitly say 'businesses'; it addresses whoever manages Shopify Admin and the storefront (merchants), noting store content such as product pages displays in the languages they've enabled.
What it means for your business
For businesses using Shopify, this means they can add Arabic, Urdu or Hebrew in Admin to offer right-to-left checkout, customer accounts and Horizon theme experiences to customers who use those languages.
What to do
Add the right-to-left language(s) you want in Shopify Admin, and enable translations on your product pages using the Translate & Adapt app.
When it takes effect
The evidence shows this was published on October 2, 2026; no separate effective date is given.
Source: https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/admin-now-available-in-3-new-languages
