Why your Shopify meta title keeps reverting — and how to lock it

You fix a meta title, and a day later it's wrong again. An app with an active template or autopilot is re-applying its own version on a schedule, overwriting your manual edit each run.

Step by step

Identify which app owns the title pattern (SEO suites with 'templates' or 'auto-optimize' are the usual cause) and turn that specific rule off.
Re-apply your correct title after disabling the rule, or the next run wins again.
Confirm the storefront title AND the page <title> tag both stick — apps sometimes template only one.
Snapshot titles daily so you can see exactly when and by which app a value flips back.

Source: Shopify Community: SEO templates / auto-optimize threads

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