diff --git a/app/views/shared/issuable/_search_bar.html.haml b/app/views/shared/issuable/_search_bar.html.haml
index b58640c3ef0bc035da1d95e0bcefe1b71049a4b1..330fa8a5b1054da512ab83adf1dc3bc91adb13ea 100644
--- a/app/views/shared/issuable/_search_bar.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/shared/issuable/_search_bar.html.haml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
                 %button.btn.btn-link
                   = icon('search')
                   %span
-                    Keep typing and press Enter
+                    Press Enter or click to search
             %ul.filter-dropdown{ data: { dynamic: true, dropdown: true } }
               %li.filter-dropdown-item
                 %button.btn.btn-link
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/29828-change-search-hint-in-new-filters.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/29828-change-search-hint-in-new-filters.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9322693ca4740b4ec9a03a438d6f6f6eaf9db0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/29828-change-search-hint-in-new-filters.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: Change hint on first row of filters dropdown to `Press Enter or click to search`
+merge_request: 10138
+author:
diff --git a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_hint_spec.rb b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_hint_spec.rb
index 01b657bcadaf7b6f102f040a1da898199395e0ac..bc8cbe30e66e3cab9ca690d6978e7c915f180302 100644
--- a/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_hint_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/features/issues/filtered_search/dropdown_hint_spec.rb
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ describe 'Dropdown hint', js: true, feature: true do
   end
 
   describe 'filtering' do
-    it 'does not filter `Keep typing and press Enter`' do
+    it 'does not filter `Press Enter or click to search`' do
       filtered_search.set('randomtext')
 
-      expect(page).to have_css(js_dropdown_hint, text: 'Keep typing and press Enter', visible: false)
+      expect(page).to have_css(js_dropdown_hint, text: 'Press Enter or click to search', visible: false)
       expect(dropdown_hint_size).to eq(0)
     end