diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/backoffice/search/manifests.ts b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/backoffice/search/manifests.ts
index c69d4d6a02..ea025667f8 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/backoffice/search/manifests.ts
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/backoffice/search/manifests.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const headerApps: Array<ManifestHeaderApp> = [
 		type: 'headerApp',
 		alias: 'Umb.HeaderApp.Search',
 		name: 'Header App Search',
-		loader: () => import('src/backoffice/shared/components/header-app/header-app-button.element'),
+		loader: () => import('./umb-search-header-app.element'),
 		weight: 10,
 		meta: {
 			label: 'Search',
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/backoffice/search/umb-search-header-app.element.ts b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/backoffice/search/umb-search-header-app.element.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9518fb409f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/backoffice/search/umb-search-header-app.element.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import { UUITextStyles } from '@umbraco-ui/uui-css/lib';
+import { css, CSSResultGroup, html } from 'lit';
+import { customElement } from 'lit/decorators.js';
+import { UmbModalService, UMB_MODAL_SERVICE_CONTEXT_TOKEN } from '@umbraco-cms/modal';
+import { UmbLitElement } from '@umbraco-cms/element';
+
+@customElement('umb-search-header-app')
+export class UmbSearchHeaderApp extends UmbLitElement {
+	static styles: CSSResultGroup = [
+		UUITextStyles,
+		css`
+			uui-button {
+				font-size: 18px;
+				--uui-button-background-color: transparent;
+			}
+		`,
+	];
+
+	private _modalService?: UmbModalService;
+
+	constructor() {
+		super();
+
+		this.consumeContext(UMB_MODAL_SERVICE_CONTEXT_TOKEN, (_instance) => {
+			this._modalService = _instance;
+		});
+	}
+
+	#onSearchClick() {
+		this._modalService?.search();
+	}
+
+	render() {
+		return html`
+			<uui-button @click=${this.#onSearchClick} look="primary" label="search" compact>
+				<uui-icon name="umb:search"></uui-icon>
+			</uui-button>
+		`;
+	}
+}
+
+export default UmbSearchHeaderApp;
+
+declare global {
+	interface HTMLElementTagNameMap {
+		'umb-search-header-app': UmbSearchHeaderApp;
+	}
+}