Inconsistency between browser addon and mobile app?

[El_Topo]

Hello,

I keep hashtags in “NOTES” field of items. for example, I use #lan for all local system’s passwords (192.168.x.x / 10.x.x.x. sites).

From the browser (chrome/edge) addon, when I type “#lan” in the search box, all local system items show up correctly.

However, when I search for “#lan” in mobile apps (Android/iOS), it ends up with “There are no items to list”; if I search for “lan”, the local system items don’t show up either, it seems to me that the search strings don’t apply to mobile apps.

I am kind of confused of searching results with NOTES field. I have an item with NOTES containing “phone: 123”,
. when I search for “phone”, both browser addon and mobile app can’t find the item;
. when I search for "phone: ", the browser addon shows the item, the mobile app can’t find it.

[Essadon (Markus)]

Have you made sure all local vaults are in sync?

[El_Topo]

Yes they are all sync’ed and have the latest data.

[Essadon (Markus)]

That’s strange. Search works just as expected for me and I can’t reproduce your issue. Could you maybe screenrecord or screenshot?

[El_Topo]

OK, I made some screenshots / pictures.

Bitwarden browser addon (Version: 1.48.1)

1. an item that has #lan in NOTES field:
   
   
2. search for “#lan”, found all items with “#lan”
   
   
3. search for “lan”, found something, but didn’t find the item with “#lan”
   
   

Bitwarden for Android (version: 2.8.2 (3365))

1. an item that has #lan in NOTES field:
   
   
2. search for “#lan”, found nothing
   
   
3. search for “lan”, found something, but didn’t find the item with “#lan”, also different result from the browser addon:
   
   

I have 4 Android phones (Android 8, Android 9, Android 10, Android 11), all have version: 2.8.2 (3365), the search results are exactly the same.

[tgreer (Trey Greer)]

The mobile apps use a basic search when compared to the other clients.

https://bitwarden.com/help/article/searching-vault/#full-text-search

[El_Topo]

I assume that if I don’t use ‘>’ to invoke full-text search with browser addon, it’s basic search, if I do basic search on both mobile apps and browser addon, how could I get different results ?

I wish that mobile app and browser addon act consistently in “basic search” mode, and I really wish the “basic search” will include NOTES field because it’s the only flexible field for me to input hashtags (obviously I can do this in “login” or “username” fields).