diff --git a/packages/url/URL.rei b/packages/url/URL.rei
index a71463cc9..2d282b3e0 100644
--- a/packages/url/URL.rei
+++ b/packages/url/URL.rei
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ let setPort: (t, string) => t;
 let protocol: t => option(string);
 let setProtocol: (t, string) => t;
 let search: t => option(string);
-let setSearch: (t, string) => t;
+let setSearchAsString: (t, string) => t;
+let setSearch: (t, SearchParams.t) => t;
 let searchParams: t => SearchParams.t;
 let username: t => option(string);
 let setUsername: (t, string) => t;
diff --git a/packages/url/js/URL.re b/packages/url/js/URL.re
index 444257633..eae1cdd12 100644
--- a/packages/url/js/URL.re
+++ b/packages/url/js/URL.re
@@ -192,11 +192,15 @@ let search = url => {
   };
 };
 [@mel.set] external setSearchInPlace: (t, string) => unit = "search";
-let setSearch = (url, newSearch) => {
+let setSearchAsString = (url, searchString) => {
   let newUrl = makeExn(toString(url));
-  let () = setSearchInPlace(newUrl, newSearch);
+  let () = setSearchInPlace(newUrl, searchString);
   newUrl;
 };
+let setSearch = (url, searchParams) => {
+  let queryString = SearchParams.toString(searchParams);
+  setSearchAsString(url, queryString);
+};
 
 [@mel.get] external getUsername: t => string = "username";
 let username = url => {
diff --git a/packages/url/native/URL.re b/packages/url/native/URL.re
index 83ebc38a5..4a7ad8419 100644
--- a/packages/url/native/URL.re
+++ b/packages/url/native/URL.re
@@ -214,9 +214,10 @@ let search = url => {
   | _ => Some("?" ++ Uri.encoded_of_query(~scheme, query))
   };
 };
-let setSearch = (t, string) => {
-  Uri.with_query(t, Uri.query_of_encoded(string));
+let setSearchAsString = (t, searchString) => {
+  Uri.with_query(t, Uri.query_of_encoded(searchString));
 };
+let setSearch = Uri.with_query;
 let searchParams = _url => assert(false);
 let username = url => {
   switch (Uri.user(url)) {
diff --git a/packages/url/test/test_native.re b/packages/url/test/test_native.re
index 8901383d4..2328b6c17 100644
--- a/packages/url/test/test_native.re
+++ b/packages/url/test/test_native.re
@@ -107,8 +107,18 @@ let url_tests = (
       assert_option_string(URL.search(url), Some("?lang=en"));
       let url = URL.makeExn("https://www.google.es?lang=en&region=cat");
       assert_option_string(URL.search(url), Some("?lang=en&region=cat"));
-      let url = URL.setSearch(url, "x=1&y=2");
+      let url = URL.setSearchAsString(url, "x=1&y=2");
       assert_string(URL.toString(url), "https://www.google.es?x=1&y=2");
+      let search_params =
+        URL.SearchParams.makeWithArray([|
+          ("name", "John"),
+          ("last_name", "Doe"),
+        |]);
+      let url = URL.setSearch(url, search_params);
+      assert_string(
+        URL.toString(url),
+        "https://www.google.es?name=John&last_name=Doe",
+      );
     }),
     case("protocol", () => {
       let url = URL.makeExn("//cdn.example.com/somewhere/something.js");