I was recently looking at all the default views that come with Drupal 8. For people who don't know, the Views module is part of Drupal 8 core. In Drupal 7 and below it's the most installed module so during Drupal 8's development it was decided to move Views into core.

During my exploration into all of the default Views, I noticed that in the People (User) view there was a filter called "Combine fields filter".

Want to learn about Views? Read Build a Blog in Drupal 8: Using Views or watch it as part of our FREE Drupal 8 Site Building course.

Now just a quick side note, if you're new to Drupal and Views I'd highly recommend you spend time walking through all of the default views and see how they were configured. You can learn a lot just by seeing how things are set up.

The "Combine fields filter" does a pretty cool thing. It allows you to search across multiple fields or put another way, it allows you to combine fields and then filter by their combined value.