I want to get rid of them because I want to press ↑ on my keyboard to quickly get to the last item on the result list, but don’t want to have to cycle through the search icons.
None of the solutions I found online worked, so I thought I might give it a try here.
In settings -> search there is a table called “Search Shortcuts” and you can uncheck all of the options to remove the icons.
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Thank you, removing all the checks in the most left column did the trick.