diff --git a/app/controllers/settings/mutes_controller.rb b/app/controllers/settings/mutes_controller.rb
index 28f9d094..3fd02eab 100644
--- a/app/controllers/settings/mutes_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/settings/mutes_controller.rb
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ class Settings::MutesController < ApplicationController
 
     respond_to do |format|
       format.turbo_stream do
-        render turbo_stream: turbo_stream.append("rules", partial: "settings/mutes/rule", locals: { rule: })
+        render turbo_stream: [
+          turbo_stream.replace("form", partial: "settings/mutes/form"),
+          turbo_stream.append("rules", partial: "settings/mutes/rule", locals: { rule: })
+        ]
       end
 
       format.html { redirect_to settings_muted_path }
diff --git a/app/views/settings/mutes/_form.html.haml b/app/views/settings/mutes/_form.html.haml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..33213d32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/settings/mutes/_form.html.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#form.form-group
+  %form{ action: settings_muted_path, method: "post" }
+    .input-group
+      %input.form-control#muted_phrase{ name: :muted_phrase, placeholder: t(".placeholder"), data: { controller: :autofocus } }
+      .input-group-append
+        %button.btn.btn-primary{ type: "submit" }= t("voc.add")
diff --git a/app/views/settings/mutes/index.html.haml b/app/views/settings/mutes/index.html.haml
index 1ecfd9c1..9a0bb8d1 100644
--- a/app/views/settings/mutes/index.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/settings/mutes/index.html.haml
@@ -6,12 +6,7 @@
     #rules
       - @rules.each do |rule|
         = render "settings/mutes/rule", rule: rule
-    .form-group
-      %form{ action: settings_muted_path, method: "post" }
-        .input-group
-          %input.form-control#muted_phrase{ name: :muted_phrase, placeholder: t(".placeholder") }
-          .input-group-append
-            %button.btn.btn-primary{ type: "submit" }= t("voc.add")
+    = render "settings/mutes/form"
 
 - provide(:title, generate_title(t(".title")))
 - parent_layout "user/settings"
diff --git a/config/locales/views.en.yml b/config/locales/views.en.yml
index b8e32590..9f3b527b 100644
--- a/config/locales/views.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/views.en.yml
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ en:
         heading: "Muted Terms"
         body: "Muting words (or longer phrases) will prevent questions containing those to appear in your inbox."
         note: "Note: Filtered questions are discarded completely from your inbox, and won't reappear if you remove a filter later on."
+      form:
         placeholder: "Add a new muted term…"
     privacy:
       edit: