Ion-searchbar v4: how do you trigger `ionBlur()` a paste?

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I’m using the following to successfully detect a paste event

// <ion-searchbar (ionInput)="searchBarInput($event)"></ >
 searchBarInput(ev:any){
    if (ev && ev.detail && ev.detail.inputType=="insertFromPaste"){
      console.log("keyboard PASTE detected", ev.detail.data);   // ev.detail.data==null
    }
  }

but the data is still null at this time.

I want to fire an ionBlur() event to handle the data, but ev.target.blur() doesn’t seem to work.

What can I do?