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As a user of search, I would like the 'Search' button in the keyboard to complete an action
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Description

Why are we doing this?

From recent user testing, the blue 'Search' button in the keyboard was either confusing or frustrating for 3 of 5 users. One user thought that the search results page was an article because they had tapped on Search from the keyboard so many times.

Proposed solution

Tapping on the blue 'Search' button in the keyboard during the focus search view should dismiss the keyboard, allowing users to make a selection from the suggested searches. Tapping back into the search field would reshow the keyboard.

Flow

Search flows: Keyboard search button .png (293×3 px, 56 KB)

Event Timeline

cmadeo raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Jul 19 2018, 7:00 PM
cmadeo lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.

@NHarateh_WMF would it be possible to dismiss the keyboard without dismissing the current search? Currently the blue button is working more like cancel?

It'd be great to stay in the focus search view, with the search results shown, but just dismiss the keyboard so that users can see a full screen of search results.

Thanks!

@cmadeo you're right, I don't know how I did this 😱 we can dismiss the keyboard and persist the results, the only problem will be the "Cancel" button - it will be disabled unless user taps the search field again (in order to dismiss the keyboard we have to deactivate the search field and the "Cancel" is part of the search field so it becomes disabled when keyboard is dismissed 😔)

Simulator Screen Shot - iPhone X - 2018-07-24 at 15.55.04.png (2×1 px, 310 KB)

what do you think?

I think that if we really wanted this functionality we would have to have our own "Cancel" button instead of using the one provided with the search bar cc @JoeWalsh

@NHarateh_WMF, can we activate the keyboard whenever the user taps in the header area? That way it might take two taps to get to cancel, but it will be clear how to get the button to turn active again.

Thanks for this update @NHarateh_WMF, working for me and lookin' good!

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