[Desktop][Search] Return Search bar to main screen

[Delyrium]

The Search bar was recently shifted to the scroll menu on the side (Windows Desktop Client), however, I cannot see why.

The Search bar is such an essential feature, which needs quick access at any time. With its new position, I have to click the scroll menu on the side first in order to scroll right to the top, just to click the extra Search option.

When I for example create a new playlist and browse through the artists´ pages to find the fitting songs, I can not simply drag and drop the song without scrolling down the long list until i reach my playlist. Then I have to scroll all the way up again to enter a new artist into the Search bar.
This just seems unnecessarily complicated and counterintuitive.

It´s not that the space was filled with something more important anyway (not that there are much more important things than the essential Search feature)... it´s just a blank space now.

I would really appreciate it if you moved the Search bar back to its previous position at the top of the main section, no matter whether it was a band page, playlist or anything else. It could still unfold into its extra screen (like it does now) when clicking it but the position has to be easily accessible at any time.

[jjw1989]

Please reinstate the search bar to the homepage of the desktop app. There is more than enough room for it to sit up the top. Putting it on the side introduces another click. And for many users it is the first thing they do when they open the app.

[kolbius1286]

Would really appreciate the search bar to be reinstated at the top of the newly designed application on the desktop version of Spotify. It is quite inconvenient not being able to search anything without having to shift to the sidebar.

[tmatthewpiper]

PLEASE BRING THE SEARCH BAR BACK SPOTIFY 

Thanks. 🙂

[KieranH93]

100%!! The search bar should not require going to a separate page or hitting a key combo to access it. Terrible UI/UX decision to require extra clicks to search for music imo.

[KieranH93]

Absolutely agreed.

[KieranH93]

I agree completely. It's by far one of the most used features for me, and requiring extra clicks for such a fundamental action is very frustrating.

[ItsAlto]

Having the search bar hidden behind clicking the search button really feels like a step back in the app, As someone who searches new bands and songs daily, this will prove annoying very shortly I Imagine. So just adding it back to the top of the app would help the flow of this process again.

[mrdanmax]

Not sure what's happening with the Spotify Desktop client - was this change rolled out incrementally? I only got the change a few days ago, but here's a post from two years ago where another user brought up the same issue:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Desktop-Search-Return-Search-bar-to-main-screen/idi-p/...

If you aren't rolling out this change for everyone at the same time, it doesn't make sense to close the issue with the argument that it doesn't have enough votes. And the argument "accessing search in the new UI is only one click away, just like in the old UI" doesn't really hold - the common "find" hotkey (control/command F) has been changed in functionality or made useless on a few pages (eg on the home page where it now does nothing), so it is objectively harder to access global search.

[PeterLambeth]

There's plenty of space on the desktop interface - please restore the search box as a constant presence on all pages.  As others have pointed out, you've increased the amount of clicking users need to do for no discernible benefit...

[crystalatbd]

Completely agree with this. I don't mind any of the other UI changes, but I'm really missing the search bar being present in all views.