# Auto complete starts to show search results without pressing enter

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-starts-to-show-search-results-without-pressing-enter/246358
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [November 22, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-starts-to-show-search-results-without-pressing-enter/246358 "2022-11-22T01:00:09Z")
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### Author: ![stance455](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stance455/32/255345_2.png) [@stance455](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stance455)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-starts-to-show-search-results-without-pressing-enter/246358/1 "2022-11-22T01:00:10Z")

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If I remember correctly, we would start typing the search term and I’d see results pop up right away.

Now I have to press enter or click.

Is there a setting to revert to the old behavior?

The closest topic I found was this one, not sure if it relates ( in the sense that this is just Discourse evolving)

> [@When searching and pressing Enter you no longer get a longer / More fullscreen results](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-searching-and-pressing-enter-you-no-longer-get-a-longer-more-fullscreen-results/208089):
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> When I press Enter in the situation showed on the screenshot below I no longer go to More / extended display of search results.

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-starts-to-show-search-results-without-pressing-enter/246358/2 "2022-11-22T01:23:53Z")

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> [@stance455](#):
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> Is there a setting to revert to the old behavior?

No, unfortunately not — doing a full search on every keystroke was costly in terms of app performance. It was a rather large refactoring of how our quick search works ([https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/14499](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/14499)), so it’s not something that’s easily possible to include a setting for.

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### Author: ![stance455](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stance455/32/255345_2.png) [@stance455](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stance455)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-complete-starts-to-show-search-results-without-pressing-enter/246358/3 "2022-11-22T13:09:54Z")

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> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> doing a full search on every keystroke was costly in terms of app performance

That crossed my mind but wasn’t sure, it’s nice to see work on keeping the app efficient.