Lookups behavior in Wave 2 – recent items, wildcard search, magnifying glass button, etc

I am wondering how many of us have missed this post:

“Preview for usability enhancements to lookups in Unified Interface”

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/preview-for-usability-enhancements-to-lookups-in-unified-interface/

I certainly did. So, to summarize, here is what’s happening now when you are clicking that magnifying glass button in the lookup field:

• If “recent list” is enabled for the lookup, you will see recent items only
• If “recent list” has been disabled through the configuration, you will see nothing (there will still be “new <record>” link though)
• If you try typing “*” and clicking the magnifying glass after that, you will get nothing as well (there seem to be a bug when using “*” on its own)

If you wanted to bring up the list of records (not the “recent” records), there seem to be two options:

• When in the lookup field, while it is still empty, push “enter” button
• OR enter some text to search for and push “enter” or click the magnifying glass button(for example, “T*123” would work fine… as long as it’s not just “*”)