Why did the youtube app on my phone stop working?

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Has anyone else had this issue in the last few days?

I have a samsung galaxy s10. The youtube app that came pre-installed on it that I've used for years suddenly no longer has a search function at the top. If they moved it, I can't find it anywhere. There's no little magnifying glass icon thing indicating search anywhere. All there is is a big horizontal list of stuff I've already watched, in case I wanna watch it again.

If I want to actually make a new search now, I have to open an instance of chrome and go to google and search "youtube cat videos" or whatever and then tap the links which will then open that video *in* the youtube app.

If I try updating the youtube app it says it's already up to date...

Wtf? Posting here cause when I google the issue it's a bunch of reddit posts from like a year+ ago and this only began happening 2 days ago.