diff --git a/components/mobileshell/qml/components/GridView.qml b/components/mobileshell/qml/components/GridView.qml
index 47fd3478..5d310b1d 100644
--- a/components/mobileshell/qml/components/GridView.qml
+++ b/components/mobileshell/qml/components/GridView.qml
@@ -1,9 +1,32 @@
 // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Devin Lin <devin@kde.org>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
-import QtQuick 2.15
-import QtQuick.Controls 2.15
+import QtQuick
+import QtQuick.Controls
+
+import org.kde.plasma.core as PlasmaCore
+import org.kde.kirigami as Kirigami
 
 GridView {
     maximumFlickVelocity: 5000
+
+    highlightFollowsCurrentItem: true
+    highlight: highlightComponent
+
+    onActiveFocusChanged: {
+        if (!activeFocus) {
+            currentIndex = -1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    Component {
+        id: highlightComponent
+        Rectangle {
+            color: Kirigami.ColorUtils.tintWithAlpha(PlasmaCore.ColorScope.highlightColor, PlasmaCore.ColorScope.backgroundColor, 0.6)
+            radius: PlasmaCore.Units.smallSpacing
+
+            Behavior on x { SpringAnimation { spring: 3; damping: 0.2 } }
+            Behavior on y { SpringAnimation { spring: 3; damping: 0.2 } }
+        }
+    }
 }