Sorting for search results?

I had a similar problem and searched forums before asking the same question and I find a lot of posts asking this or related questions, so I hope the 1PW team hears the meta point that they've confused us and will improve the discoverability/usability of search results in the future.

That said, I found a hint in https://1password.community/discussion/134047/why-has-the-sort-function-been-removed-for-search-results that you can change the sort order from outside search results (the filter icon at the top right of the item list) and whatever sort order applied before starting the search will also apply inside search results, and I found that hint to be helpful.