diff --git a/app/helpers/issuables_helper.rb b/app/helpers/issuables_helper.rb
index 6069640b9c81ed7535d119418f86b75839cd9a4e..dfa86f52e4067403a6c46fdfb0758a8c64143d83 100644
--- a/app/helpers/issuables_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/issuables_helper.rb
@@ -362,6 +362,10 @@ module IssuablesHelper
     end
   end
 
+  def has_filter_bar_param?
+    finder.class.scalar_params.any? { |p| params[p].present? }
+  end
+
   private
 
   def sidebar_gutter_collapsed?
diff --git a/app/views/shared/empty_states/_issues.html.haml b/app/views/shared/empty_states/_issues.html.haml
index 2e26fe63d3ea4a87d17898cd360658da955b3699..0ddc56dc6c325ecdb5a3376681082fc57d64ee43 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/empty_states/_issues.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/empty_states/_issues.html.haml
@@ -8,7 +8,12 @@
       = image_tag 'illustrations/issues.svg'
   .col-12
     .text-content
-      - if current_user
+      - if has_filter_bar_param?
+        %h4.text-center
+          = _("Sorry, your filter produced no results")
+        %p.text-center
+          = _("To widen your search, change or remove filters above")
+      - elsif current_user
         %h4
           = _("The Issue Tracker is the place to add things that need to be improved or solved in a project")
         %p
diff --git a/app/views/shared/empty_states/_merge_requests.html.haml b/app/views/shared/empty_states/_merge_requests.html.haml
index 421a1b2415bea104ab18d3d5fd6fdbdeab0a09f4..06ceb9738bc644ad3ecf0921c985a860e070a0db 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/empty_states/_merge_requests.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/empty_states/_merge_requests.html.haml
@@ -8,16 +8,19 @@
       = image_tag 'illustrations/merge_requests.svg'
   .col-12
     .text-content
-      - if has_button
+      - if has_filter_bar_param?
+        %h4.text-center
+          = _("Sorry, your filter produced no results")
+        %p.text-center
+          = _("To widen your search, change or remove filters above")
+      - else
         %h4
           = _("Merge requests are a place to propose changes you've made to a project and discuss those changes with others")
         %p
           = _("Interested parties can even contribute by pushing commits if they want to.")
-        .text-center
-          - if project_select_button
-            = render 'shared/new_project_item_select', path: 'merge_requests/new', label: _('New merge request'), type: :merge_requests, with_feature_enabled: 'merge_requests'
-          - else
-            = link_to _('New merge request'), button_path, class: 'btn btn-success', title: _('New merge request'), id: 'new_merge_request_link'
-      - else
-        %h4.text-center
-          = _("There are no merge requests to show")
+        - if has_button
+          .text-center
+            - if project_select_button
+              = render 'shared/new_project_item_select', path: 'merge_requests/new', label: _('New merge request'), type: :merge_requests, with_feature_enabled: 'merge_requests'
+            - else
+              = link_to _('New merge request'), button_path, class: 'btn btn-success', title: _('New merge request'), id: 'new_merge_request_link'
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/53326-improve-issues-empty-state.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/53326-improve-issues-empty-state.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7632db808b5599ad2463cdb532d97850d440392f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/53326-improve-issues-empty-state.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+title: Show different empty state for filtered issues and MRs
+merge_request: 22775
+author: Heinrich Lee Yu
+type: changed
diff --git a/locale/gitlab.pot b/locale/gitlab.pot
index ff4fd0c8aec5a8fe344b1648a226480cf775ad47..64c01a7cdc409f18a70d53eaddf656d50c7d952d 100644
--- a/locale/gitlab.pot
+++ b/locale/gitlab.pot
@@ -5841,6 +5841,9 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Something went wrong. Please try again."
 msgstr ""
 
+msgid "Sorry, your filter produced no results"
+msgstr ""
+
 msgid "Sort by"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -6296,9 +6299,6 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "There are no labels yet"
 msgstr ""
 
-msgid "There are no merge requests to show"
-msgstr ""
-
 msgid "There are no projects shared with this group yet"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -6723,6 +6723,9 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "To validate your GitLab CI configurations, go to 'CI/CD → Pipelines' inside your project, and click on the 'CI Lint' button."
 msgstr ""
 
+msgid "To widen your search, change or remove filters above"
+msgstr ""
+
 msgid "Today"
 msgstr ""
 
diff --git a/spec/features/issues_spec.rb b/spec/features/issues_spec.rb
index 4d9b8a10e043405f49e2f8af46f01ce07bb19fb9..5c1ffb76351ebfee56a9f73bd546c4816a9cf749 100644
--- a/spec/features/issues_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/issues_spec.rb
@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ describe 'Issues' do
   let(:user) { create(:user) }
   let(:project) { create(:project, :public) }
 
+  shared_examples_for 'empty state with filters' do
+    it 'user sees empty state with filters' do
+      create(:issue, author: user, project: project)
+
+      visit project_issues_path(project, milestone_title: "1.0")
+
+      expect(page).to have_content('Sorry, your filter produced no results')
+      expect(page).to have_content('To widen your search, change or remove filters above')
+    end
+  end
+
   describe 'while user is signed out' do
     describe 'empty state' do
       it 'user sees empty state' do
@@ -17,6 +28,8 @@ describe 'Issues' do
         expect(page).to have_content('The Issue Tracker is the place to add things that need to be improved or solved in a project.')
         expect(page).to have_content('You can register or sign in to create issues for this project.')
       end
+
+      it_behaves_like 'empty state with filters'
     end
   end
 
@@ -37,6 +50,8 @@ describe 'Issues' do
         expect(page).to have_content('Issues can be bugs, tasks or ideas to be discussed. Also, issues are searchable and filterable.')
         expect(page).to have_content('New issue')
       end
+
+      it_behaves_like 'empty state with filters'
     end
 
     describe 'Edit issue' do
diff --git a/spec/features/merge_request/user_sees_empty_state_spec.rb b/spec/features/merge_request/user_sees_empty_state_spec.rb
index 482f31b02d455f5ea9e24b8c2654feaf6ea19e27..012bfd6e4580348b3bb0f90b4eeebe755bdfd0bf 100644
--- a/spec/features/merge_request/user_sees_empty_state_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/merge_request/user_sees_empty_state_spec.rb
@@ -19,12 +19,20 @@ describe 'Merge request > User sees empty state' do
   context 'if there are merge requests' do
     before do
       create(:merge_request, source_project: project)
-
-      visit project_merge_requests_path(project)
     end
 
     it 'does not show an empty state' do
+      visit project_merge_requests_path(project)
+
       expect(page).not_to have_selector('.empty-state')
     end
+
+    it 'shows empty state when filter results empty' do
+      visit project_merge_requests_path(project, milestone_title: "1.0")
+
+      expect(page).to have_selector('.empty-state')
+      expect(page).to have_content('Sorry, your filter produced no results')
+      expect(page).to have_content('To widen your search, change or remove filters above')
+    end
   end
 end