# \[Bug?/Feature Request\] Focus search input when activating PlexAmp through keyboard shortcut
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361
**Category:** Plex Labs
**Tags:** plexamp
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361 "2020-04-21T14:50:23Z")
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### Author:  [@DenzoNL](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DenzoNL)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/1 "2020-04-21T14:50:23Z")
Hello all,
First of all I’d like to say that PlexAmp v3 is superb and I love using it on my phone. Today I’ve started using PlexAmp again on my desktop, but I couldn’t find anything on keyboard shortcuts. However, I’ve discovered that (most) keyboard shortcuts from the previous PlexAmp work just fine.
However, my issue is that when activating the PlexAmp window using Ctrl+Shift+Space, it doesn’t focus the search input. This means that the keyboard shortcut is fairly useless because I’ll need my mouse anyway to click the search box before I can start typing my search query.
I’m not sure if this is a bug or if it’s on the roadmap (considering the keyboard shortcuts are there, but undocumented).
**Version info**
PlexAmp v3.0.0
Windows 10 build 1909
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/2 "2020-04-21T15:06:51Z")
Weird, when I use Shift+Alt+Space, I get the the search field focussed instantly.
Windows 10 1009
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### Author:  [@DenzoNL](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DenzoNL)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/3 "2020-04-21T15:20:02Z")
@OttoKerner Seems that this is a bug then. It indeed works using Shift+Alt+Space which always opens the Search tab, but Ctrl+Shift+Space opens whatever tab was open at that time, so it only works if the Search tab was already open.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/4 "2020-04-21T18:03:23Z")
Then don’t use CTRL+Shift+Space
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### Author:  [@David-Grogan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/David-Grogan)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/5 "2020-04-22T13:10:19Z")
A related thing, not a bug, but it would be nice if when you click on the Search button on the toolbar it auto-focuses on the search input field.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/6 "2020-04-22T13:13:00Z")
But then again, you’d miss the Aural Fixations and Recent Searches, which are vanishing if the search input is focussed.
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### Author:  [@David-Grogan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/David-Grogan)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/7 "2020-04-22T17:42:33Z")
easy, don’t hide those things until the user starts typing. the whole point of going into the searcher is to search for something, so that should be the default and easiest thing to do.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-feature-request-focus-search-input-when-activating-plexamp-through-keyboard-shortcut/578361/8 "2020-07-21T17:42:36Z")
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