diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f0de006ace..b52aa74aa2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 - [#2994](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/2994) Keep generated doc-string order for shape or exact props. Fixes [#2990](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/2990)
 - [#3011](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/3011) Fixed an exception error caused by assigning `None` to array properties with `exact` or `shape` element types. Fixes [#3010](https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/3010)
+- [#2991](https://github.com/plotly/dash/pull/2991) Add support for URL decoding of the search parameter for pages.
 
 ## [2.18.1] - 2024-09-12
 
diff --git a/dash/_pages.py b/dash/_pages.py
index ab97ba80df..5bf0c14fc7 100644
--- a/dash/_pages.py
+++ b/dash/_pages.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from fnmatch import fnmatch
 from pathlib import Path
 from os.path import isfile, join
-from urllib.parse import parse_qs
+from urllib.parse import parse_qs, unquote
 
 import flask
 
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ def _infer_module_name(page_path):
 
 
 def _parse_query_string(search):
+    search = unquote(search)
     if search and len(search) > 0 and search[0] == "?":
         search = search[1:]
     else: