I took a look at his forum and it isn’t very clear.
His current Discourse version is supposed to be:
Discourse v3.4.1 — https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/25a8e64a53
Using Ember Inspector, I can see
However, showSearchButton has been introduced recently alongside a new search_experience site settings. It’s not part of the stable version yet, unless I’m wrong (?).
The setting returns nothing:

But once we do set manually a value, the icon appears:


Did you downgrade at some point from the latest to the stable version? It’s confusing, not sure what’s happening.
