WTH can I not use the Quick Bar on touchscreen devices?

The quick bar is a great addition to Home Assistant, and while there is room for improvement for the bar itself, my biggest issue is that I can’t use it easily in the mobile app or a touchscreen device because there is no keyboard to trigger it with the keyboard shortcut.

In my opinion, it should be possible to

a) optionally show an icon in the menu/ tab bar
b) trigger it manually, so that I can put a custom Lovelace button somewhere on my dashboard to launch it

You can! Hit the ellipses menu in the top right and tap “Search”. Though I agree the word “Search” doesn’t immediately imply “Quick Bar Entity Search” and could probably be improved for clarity.

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