Search and keyboard use

There are two ways.

• Select the Search settings field in the top bar. It shows the shortcut on its right: ⌘K on an Apple device and Ctrl K elsewhere.
• Press Ctrl and K together, or ⌘ and K on an Apple device, from anywhere in your account. Pressing it again closes the palette.

The palette opens with the cursor in the search box, whose label and placeholder read Search settings, pages and actions. The first time you open it in a visit, it loads a moment later than the page itself.

1. The search box, labelled Search settings, pages and actions.
2. The Pages group.
3. The Actions group.

The palette follows the language of your account area, so its labels, hints and search words appear in your saved language (English, French or Spanish). The labels below are the English ones. See Languages.

The palette searches pages and actions. It does not search your data: it will not find a particular session, token or event, only the page where you manage them.

You can search by the title of a page, or by a related word. A page is also found by words it does not have in its title. For example, a search for deactivate or erase finds Close account, trusted browser finds Trusted devices, google or github finds the linked accounts page, totp finds the authenticator app page, and export download finds Export your data.

Results are grouped under Pages, Actions and Help. A screen reader announces how many results there are, for example 3 results, as you type.

If nothing matches, the palette says Nothing matches with what you typed, and Search finds pages and actions in your account. Try one of these. Under Suggestions it offers Devices, Export your data and Add a passkey, which you can choose like any result.

The footer of the palette shows the three you will use most: ↑ ↓ to move, ↵ to open, Esc to close.

Choosing a result closes the palette and takes you there. Closing it with Esc returns the focus to where you were, and the next time you open it the search box is empty.

• The account navigation. A column on the left on wide screens and a strip across the top on phones. It lists the eight areas of your account. The organization switcher is at its top and the account menu (name, Docs, Trust and legal, Sign out) at its foot; on a phone both are in the strip.
• Tabs. Each area with more than one page, such as Devices, has tabs. Each tab is its own address, so you can bookmark a page.
• The bell. Opens the latest security events. See The security feed.

• Your account
• Sessions