Search modal not working on pwa running on safari / brave / firefox on ios 14

I am running ios 14 and am not able to use the search functionality.

It worked once when I first opened up the app but won’t work since then. I’ve tried disabling pop up blocking and that doesn’t seem to make a difference. I imagine this is a setting on the browser side but just not sure what I’m missing.

for a split second, when i hit the search icon in the sidebar, i see the shading from the modal “fire” on the screen and then it goes away

This seems to have gone away with the Feb 19 / 1.2 update