Missing search tab - File Explorer (Windows 10 - 1909)

Thanks for starting this - I had the same problem - I dislike this OS more every waking day.  

Especially the obnoxious updates they force on me for my computer which they think they

freaking own.  There's are reason why I and major companies wait for software maturity 

before updating - but these obnoxious people force the bleeding edge updates on us.

The changed the interface 1 too many times on Office 365 on the last one just enough

to cause me to change to an alternative - without their obnoxious default cloud storage too.

Extremely helpful.  Many, many thanks.

Just a note about another apparent bug:  I use US dates so I searched for 

       *.mp4 datemodified:>=2/1/2021

to get files modified from February on.  I was therefore surprised to see a file dated 1/16/21.  Then I tried some other searches.  Yes , my computer thinks the dates I enter in the search box are DD/MM/YYYY and not MM/DD/YYYY, but the latter is the format in the results. 

Counter-intuitive to the 5th degree.

Finally, a response on this forum that is actually useful. Thank you for doing what Microsoft is apparently unable to do and providing some useful context to this obvious BUG that was introduced by yet another rushed, ill-tested (jk, we all know Microsoft testing is done via the users themselves), Windows 10 update.

Well, was forced to update to the newer Win 10 version (20H2),  Now, the box to enter the search text is large enough to see what you are typing.  You still don't get the search tab until you enter text and run the search. smh

Agreed, if you type in the kind: or size: it shows up but is should show up as soon as you click in the search box to initiate a search.