diff --git a/src/status_im/discovery/screen.cljs b/src/status_im/discovery/screen.cljs
index 8b96f7a2c6..dc35aae848 100644
--- a/src/status_im/discovery/screen.cljs
+++ b/src/status_im/discovery/screen.cljs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     [status-im.i18n :refer [label]]))
 
 (defn get-hashtags [status]
-  (let [hashtags (map #(str/replace % #"#" "") (re-seq #"[^ !?,;:.]+" status))]
+  (let [hashtags (map #(str/lower-case (str/replace % #"#" "")) (re-seq #"[^ !?,;:.]+" status))]
     (or hashtags [])))
 
 (defn title-content [platform-specific show-search?]
diff --git a/src/status_im/profile/handlers.cljs b/src/status_im/profile/handlers.cljs
index 7cbbe251ed..485942515d 100644
--- a/src/status_im/profile/handlers.cljs
+++ b/src/status_im/profile/handlers.cljs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
             [clojure.string :as str]))
 
 (defn get-hashtags [status]
-  (let [hashtags (map #(subs % 1) (re-seq #"#[^ !?,;:.]+" status))]
+  (let [hashtags (map #(str/lower-case (subs % 1)) (re-seq #"#[^ !?,;:.]+" status))]
     (or hashtags [])))
 
 (defn message-user [identity]