diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fbc5acd5d8..54f3f45cd6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # QOwnNotes Changelog
 
 ## 22.9.1
+- the tag name line edit will now be properly hidden after an existing tag was
+  recognized and added when pressing <kbd>Tab</kbd> (for [#2607](https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/2607))
 - the tooltip for specifying file patterns of note files to ignore as regular expressions
   in the *Panels settings* was fixed (for [#2580](https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/2580))
 
diff --git a/src/mainwindow.cpp b/src/mainwindow.cpp
index 89db8de87e..2b6daaace6 100644
--- a/src/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -4218,6 +4218,7 @@ bool MainWindow::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event) {
                     Tag::fetchByName(ui->newNoteTagLineEdit->text(), true);
                 if (tag.isFetched()) {
                     linkTagNameToCurrentNote(tag.getName(), true);
+                    on_newNoteTagLineEdit_editingFinished();
                 }
 
                 return QMainWindow::eventFilter(obj, event);;