When searching for a vault entry you can use Ctrl + F, and that’s cool.
Problem is when you want to access the result list without using mouse. Enter does nothing. Tab have some crazy tab order and you must press it exactly 32 times to acces search results.
Even then, you cannot use arrows to select wanted result, but use tab instead.
Ctrl + F opens search dialog.
After that enter or tab gives focus to the results where you can navigate using arrow keys.
This has been plaguing me for weeks now. I’m surprised such a regression didn’t trigger pre-deploy tests…
This has been a problem since 2025.12. And if anything the situation has regressed in the last few weeks with new binaries.
For me Cntrl + F does not focus the search box after the update. So I am forced to use the mouse to click the search box. The recent update is frustrating enough alongwith the huge forehead of blank space at the top, the jumbo entries in the list and the tine clickable area (the title) to open the entry, that I am considering switching to something else.
I believe this is the lastest issue: Menus Items and Keyboard shortcuts not working · Issue #20802 · bitwarden/clients · GitHub
Small update for anyone following the search/tab-order part of this regression: Someone opened a focused PR here:
Scope is intentionally narrow: once the search input is focused and a query is entered, Enter or Tab moves focus directly to the first matching vault item instead of cycling through sidebar/account/table chrome.
This does not fix the separate Cmd+F / copy-shortcut regressions, but it addresses the search → result-list keyboard handoff that several people have described here.