diff --git a/Tusker/Screens/Search/SearchResultsViewController.swift b/Tusker/Screens/Search/SearchResultsViewController.swift
index 6f4204af..63180cf7 100644
--- a/Tusker/Screens/Search/SearchResultsViewController.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Screens/Search/SearchResultsViewController.swift
@@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ class SearchResultsViewController: UIViewController, CollectionViewController {
     }
     
     func performSearch(query: String?) {
+        guard isViewLoaded else {
+            return
+        }
         guard let query = query, !query.isEmpty else {
             self.dataSource.apply(NSDiffableDataSourceSnapshot<Section, Item>())
             return