Awkward for me to describe, and i don’t think screen shots help.
If I’m on a machines ‘content’ tab and press r2 to quick move an item, then press l1 to move to ‘recipes’ tab, it automatically opens the search bar keyboard, as if I pressed r2 again on the new screen.
It does this even if I press direction pad in-between pressing r2 and l1.
It also does it if I press r2 on contents page, then r1 twice to tab to recipes page.
I have noticed it recalls the r2 press in other situations and opens the search bar input, where it’s not been pressed on the screen with the search function on it, but it’s even more awkward to describe those!
Also fun, try to open chat and type with an actual keyboard on PS4 when the Knowledge tab is open. It closes the chat mid sentence and opens the search bar…
Also the down arrow key which normally in all the UI parts goes to the first element now it seemingly goes to a random one tho I think it’s using the fake mouse pointer as a reference.
All in all search is very handy to have. But out of 100 times I open a dialog with a search bar I only need it one time. The other 99 times I don’t need it but it’s making doing ordinaey things much slower.
Like when I grab mats to craft something I opened machine, pressed L2 to show the able to craft items and was quickly at the item I wanted to click. Now I can’t do anything on automatic which means I just scroll down and down and down…
Not sure where one would plug a keyboard into on the controller tho.
Do know there are chat pads you can hook up to them but they then still use Bluetooth I thought and present themselves as a keyboard to the PS4.