diff --git a/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadChrome.swift b/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadChrome.swift
index 8391a3b1..44334423 100644
--- a/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadChrome.swift
+++ b/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadChrome.swift
@@ -385,15 +385,23 @@ struct GamepadTrayScrim: View {
                 LinearGradient(
                     stops: [
                         .init(color: .black, location: 0),
-                        .init(color: .black.opacity(0.9), location: 0.5),
+                        .init(color: .black.opacity(0.92), location: 0.55),
                         .init(color: .clear, location: 1),
                     ],
                     startPoint: fromEdge, endPoint: toContent)
             }
             // Grow past the tray so the fade-to-clear happens OUTSIDE its bounds — the tray's own
-            // text always sits on the strong part, rows blur out before they reach it.
-            .padding(edge == .top ? .bottom : .top, -32)
+            // text always sits on the strong part, rows blur out before they reach it. The bottom
+            // gets the longer runway: its tray sits over SCROLLING rows plus the detail line, and
+            // the field verdict on the short reach was rows colliding visibly with the legend.
+            .padding(edge == .top ? .bottom : .top, edge == .top ? -44 : -72)
             .ignoresSafeArea()
+            // This view's geometry must NEVER animate: mounted inside a pushed shell layer, the
+            // full-bleed growth above (the negative padding and the safe-area expansion) rode the
+            // push's transaction, so the blur visibly entered at content bounds and grew into
+            // place — and `.geometryGroup()` on the layer does not reach safe-area resolution.
+            // The layer's own fade/slide still carries the scrim; only its SHAPE is pinned.
+            .transaction { $0.animation = nil }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadHomeView.swift b/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadHomeView.swift
index 8c7a6eef..8a826ad1 100644
--- a/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadHomeView.swift
+++ b/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Home/GamepadHomeView.swift
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ struct GamepadHomeView: View {
             #if os(iOS)
             if let screen = topScreen {
                 screenLayer(screen)
-                    // Resolve the screen's internal layout (safe-area trays, the scrims'
-                    // `.ignoresSafeArea()` full-bleed) BEFORE the insertion animates: without
-                    // this the tray blurs entered at their content bounds and visibly grew to
-                    // the screen edges mid-push.
+                    // Settle the screen's internal layout before the insertion animates, so
+                    // descendants never lerp from a half-resolved first frame. (Not sufficient
+                    // for the tray blurs on its own — safe-area expansion resolves outside a
+                    // geometry group; GamepadTrayScrim pins its own geometry too.)
                     .geometryGroup()
                     .zIndex(1)
                     .id(screen.id)
diff --git a/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Settings/GamepadSettingsView.swift b/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Settings/GamepadSettingsView.swift
index b044af86..4358cddc 100644
--- a/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Settings/GamepadSettingsView.swift
+++ b/clients/apple/Sources/PunktfunkClient/Settings/GamepadSettingsView.swift
@@ -257,10 +257,12 @@ struct GamepadSettingsView: View {
             .padding(.vertical, 7)
             .background {
                 // One shared capsule that MOVES between pills, rather than one per pill fading
-                // in and out — the highlight travels the way the press did.
+                // in and out — the highlight travels the way the press did. A Liquid Glass
+                // surface (accent-tinted through consoleGlass), so the strip wears the same
+                // material language as the rows it sits above.
                 if selected {
-                    Capsule()
-                        .fill(ink.accent(0.85))
+                    Color.clear
+                        .consoleGlass(Capsule(), tint: ink.accent(0.85))
                         .matchedGeometryEffect(id: "tab", in: tabHighlight)
                 }
             }