# Search bar disappears on iPad in long topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** tablet
**Created:** [1월 11, 2017, 10:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583 "2017-01-11T10:14:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [1월 11, 2017, 10:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583/1 "2017-01-11T10:14:50Z")

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Let me know if you can also reproduce this. So far I’ve tested on iPad Air 2, Safari and Chrome:

- Go to a topic long enough that you need to load a new batch of posts
- Scroll to the bottom of the topic
- Click the search button, then click the search field to invoke the virtual keyboard
- The keyboard should go off-screen

Won’t work on mobile because we immediately go straight to full-screen search there.

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [1월 11, 2017, 10:18오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583/2 "2017-01-11T10:18:05Z")

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Yep, I see this on iPad Air 2

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 11, 2017, 11:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583/3 "2017-01-11T11:48:13Z")

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I usually scroll to the top of the topic before searching for this reason. You can do this by tapping the topic title.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6월 12, 2017, 11:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583/4 "2017-06-12T23:44:09Z")

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This _may_ work better now that Apple fixed that 3 year old bug with position:fixed in iOS 10.3? Let me check

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [6월 13, 2017, 6:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583/5 "2017-06-13T06:55:59Z")

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Seems good on my end! 🎉

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6월 13, 2017, 7:15오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-bar-disappears-on-ipad-in-long-topics/55583/6 "2017-06-13T07:15:19Z")

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