Outlook 2019 - App Search field

For anyone that is a sysadmin and working on domain, use the latest Office 2021/2019/2016 ADMX to prevent the updates from pushing to your users.

I am pushing it to machines instead of user accounts, so I navigate to the following:

Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2016 (Machine) -> Updates -> Prevent Office from being updated to a specific version

Enable the policy, enter 16.0.17231.20182:16.0.17126.20132|16.0.17231.20194:16.0.17126.20132

Proceed to save and push policy out to users.

A new "App Search" field has appeared to the right of the normal Search field. I can't seem to find any information on the articles explaining what this is or how to remove it. The "App Search" field also doesn't do anything. You can't type anything where it says App Search and nothing happens when you click the magnifying glass. A couple of things that have already been attempted:

• restarted Outlook
• restarted computer
• checked on others on different computer (they also have it)
• tried resetting view in settings

One of my users is having the same issue. Can Microsoft kindly provide a solution for this already.

Any update? its so annoying, what a useless feature.

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Same here

I can't remove this search