diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/assetslibrary/assetslibrarymodel.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/assetslibrary/assetslibrarymodel.cpp
index 6c9720271f9..396c3e274aa 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/assetslibrary/assetslibrarymodel.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/assetslibrary/assetslibrarymodel.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ AssetsLibraryModel::AssetsLibraryModel(QObject *parent)
     : QSortFilterProxyModel{parent}
 {
     createBackendModel();
+    setRecursiveFilteringEnabled(true);
     sort(0);
 }