Animations in Beyond

Edit theme → Theme settings → Animations.

Beyond Animations in Theme settings

Four storewide switches, each one turns a category of motion off. There is nothing to turn on, animations ship on by default.

Theme settings → Animations

Disable text: turns off text fade and reveal animations.
Disable image: turns off image fade and reveal animations.
Disable button hover: turns off button hover transitions.
Disable other: turns off all other non-essential animation, a catch-all for anything the first three do not cover.

Disable text: the scroll-triggered fade/slide-in on headings, subheadings, text, buttons, and rich text, used in nearly every section, plus the animated stacked headline component where a section uses one.
Disable image: the fade-in on section images, for example Image with text, Media with highlight, Shop the banner, Scrolling text on image, Grid with overlay, Featured collections, the collection banner, and menu images.
Disable button hover: a single storewide switch. It is not checked per section, so it turns off hover transitions on every button, input, and link at once.
Disable other: the widest switch, covering things that are not simple text or image reveals: product card image hover-swap and the shared transition into the product page, the cart drawer, predictive search results, dropdown/mega menus, accordions, grid reveals on collection/blog/search listing pages, and sections like Testimonials.

A section still animates after I disabled text or image: that motion may fall under Disable other instead, for example a slideshow transition or a decorative loop. Turn that on too.
I want most animation off but kept hover effects: leave Disable button hover off and enable the other three.