diff --git a/app/Repositories/Category/CategoryRepository.php b/app/Repositories/Category/CategoryRepository.php
index 003966c82a..373bc13db8 100644
--- a/app/Repositories/Category/CategoryRepository.php
+++ b/app/Repositories/Category/CategoryRepository.php
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ class CategoryRepository implements CategoryRepositoryInterface, UserGroupInterf
 
     public function categoryStartsWith(string $query, int $limit): Collection
     {
+        Log::debug(sprintf('Find a category that starts with "%s"', $query));
         $search = $this->user->categories();
         if ('' !== $query) {
             $search->whereLike('name', sprintf('%s%%', $query));
diff --git a/app/Support/Search/QueryParser/QueryParser.php b/app/Support/Search/QueryParser/QueryParser.php
index 32f389eb61..8209e3e003 100644
--- a/app/Support/Search/QueryParser/QueryParser.php
+++ b/app/Support/Search/QueryParser/QueryParser.php
@@ -54,15 +54,17 @@ class QueryParser implements QueryParserInterface
         $prohibited             = false;
         $chrArray               = preg_split('//u', $this->query, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
         $count                  = count($chrArray);
+        $prevChar = null;
         while ($this->position < $count) {
             $char     = $chrArray[$this->position];
             $nextChar = $chrArray[$this->position + 1] ?? '';
-            // Log::debug(sprintf('Char #%d: %s', $this->position, $char));
+            $prevChar = $chrArray[$this->position - 1] ?? '';
+            Log::debug(sprintf('Char #%d: %s', $this->position, $char));
 
             // If we're in a quoted string, we treat all characters except another quote as ordinary characters
             if ($inQuotes) {
-                if ('\\' === $char && '"' === $nextChar) {
-                    // Log::debug('BACKSLASH!');
+                if ('\\' === $char && '"' === $nextChar && '\\' !== $prevChar) {
+                    Log::debug('Found a backslash and the next one is a double quote.');
                     // escaped quote, pretend it's a normal char and continue two places (skipping the actual character).
                     $tokenUnderConstruction .= '\\'.$nextChar;
                     $this->position         += 2;
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 41088a301d..e50a1ac8d1 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - [Issue 11601](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/11601) (Only ungrouped piggy banks are listed when creating a transaction) reported by @jgmm81
 - [Issue 11620](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/11620) (Add database indexes to improve reporting query performance) reported by @Zakmaf
 - [PR 11632](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/pull/11632) (fix v2 layout dashboard transactions load) reported by @mateuszkulapl
+- #11657
 - #11660
 - Confirming your new email address would result in an error.