diff --git a/photomap/frontend/static/css/swiper.css b/photomap/frontend/static/css/swiper.css
index bb81d398..a2b4799a 100644
--- a/photomap/frontend/static/css/swiper.css
+++ b/photomap/frontend/static/css/swiper.css
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 /* ===== SWIPER CORE STYLES ===== */
 .swiper {
   width: 100vw;
-  height: 100dvh;
+  /* --visible-viewport-height is set by panel-anchor.js when iPadOS strands
+     the layout viewport at fullscreen size after leaving fullscreen; 100dvh
+     resolves against that stranded viewport and would hang the bottom of the
+     photo off the screen. */
+  height: var(--visible-viewport-height, 100dvh);
   box-sizing: border-box;
   background: #111;
   position: relative;
@@ -16,7 +20,7 @@
 
 .swiper-slide img {
   width: 100vw;
-  height: 100dvh;
+  height: var(--visible-viewport-height, 100dvh);
   object-fit: contain;
   display: block;
   margin: 0 auto;
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@
 
 .slide-image {
   max-width: 100vw;
-  max-height: 100dvh;
+  max-height: var(--visible-viewport-height, 100dvh);
   display: block;
   margin: auto;
 }
diff --git a/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js b/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js
index 5c9acac8..1b96c563 100644
--- a/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js
+++ b/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js
@@ -29,17 +29,44 @@ const MIN_OVERSHOOT_PX = 24;
 // event that would correct it may already have fired.
 const SETTLE_DELAY_MS = 300;
 
+// How long after a text field blurs the correction stays held. On iPad the
+// blur arrives while the software keyboard is still fully on screen — hiding
+// the search panel blurs its input first, the keyboard collapses after — so
+// the first resyncs after blur sample a viewport still shrunk by the
+// keyboard. Recomputing then would briefly treat the keyboard as browser
+// chrome and bounce everything sized by the correction. The keyboard's hide
+// animation is well under this; the timer resyncs with the truth at the end.
+const KEYBOARD_COLLAPSE_MS = 700;
+
 let anchored = [];
-let appliedOvershoot = 0;
 let settleTimer = null;
+let keyboardSettling = false;
+let keyboardCollapseTimer = null;
+
+/** Can focusing this element summon the software keyboard? */
+function isTextEntry(element) {
+  if (!element) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  return element.isContentEditable || ["INPUT", "TEXTAREA", "SELECT"].includes(element.tagName);
+}
 
 /** Is the software keyboard likely to be the reason the viewport shrank? */
 function isTextEntryFocused() {
-  const active = document.activeElement;
-  if (!active) {
-    return false;
+  return isTextEntry(document.activeElement);
+}
+
+/** Keep the correction held across the keyboard's hide animation. */
+function noteTextEntryBlur(element) {
+  if (!isTextEntry(element)) {
+    return;
   }
-  return active.isContentEditable || ["INPUT", "TEXTAREA", "SELECT"].includes(active.tagName);
+  keyboardSettling = true;
+  clearTimeout(keyboardCollapseTimer);
+  keyboardCollapseTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+    keyboardSettling = false;
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+  }, KEYBOARD_COLLAPSE_MS);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -81,16 +108,40 @@ export function syncPanelAnchor() {
   // opening the text search dialog would otherwise fling both panels several
   // hundred pixels up into the middle of the photo, on top of the dialog they
   // belong under. There is nothing in the geometry to tell the two apart, so
-  // while a text field holds focus the last correction is held instead of
-  // recomputed.
-  const overshoot = isTextEntryFocused() ? appliedOvershoot : liveOvershoot();
-  appliedOvershoot = overshoot;
+  // from focus until the keyboard has finished collapsing after blur, the
+  // correction is left exactly as it is — recomputing on the blur edge would
+  // sample the still-raised keyboard, and recomputing the published height
+  // from a fresh clientHeight against a held overshoot mixes two moments.
+  //
+  // Pinch-zoom holds for the same reason: zoomed in, the visual viewport is a
+  // window onto the page and WebKit already treats fixed elements specially.
+  // Recomputing per-frame would drag the panels under the user's fingers, and
+  // clearing would grow the photo 40px mid-gesture on a stranded viewport —
+  // the overshoot has not gone away just because the user zoomed.
+  const zoomed = window.visualViewport && window.visualViewport.scale > 1.01;
+  if (isTextEntryFocused() || keyboardSettling || zoomed) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const overshoot = liveOvershoot();
 
   anchored.forEach((panel) => {
     if (panel) {
       panel.style.transform = overshoot ? `translateY(${-overshoot}px)` : "";
     }
   });
+
+  // The swiper container and slide images are sized with 100dvh, which
+  // resolves against the same stranded layout viewport the panels are anchored
+  // to — so after a stranded fullscreen exit the bottom of the photo hangs off
+  // the screen too. Publish the visible height for those rules to consume
+  // (they fall back to 100dvh when it is unset).
+  const root = document.documentElement;
+  if (overshoot) {
+    root.style.setProperty("--visible-viewport-height", `${root.clientHeight - overshoot}px`);
+  } else {
+    root.style.removeProperty("--visible-viewport-height");
+  }
 }
 
 /** Resync once more after the viewport has settled, coalescing repeat calls. */
@@ -107,7 +158,8 @@ function scheduleSettleResync() {
  */
 export function initializePanelAnchor(panels) {
   anchored = panels.filter(Boolean);
-  appliedOvershoot = 0;
+  keyboardSettling = false;
+  clearTimeout(keyboardCollapseTimer);
 
   window.addEventListener("resize", scheduleSettleResync);
   window.addEventListener("orientationchange", scheduleSettleResync);
@@ -119,9 +171,13 @@ export function initializePanelAnchor(panels) {
     window.visualViewport.addEventListener("scroll", scheduleSettleResync);
   }
   // Focus changes bracket the software keyboard, and the held correction has
-  // to be recomputed once it goes away again.
+  // to be recomputed once it goes away again — but only after the keyboard's
+  // hide animation, which starts after the blur, has finished.
   window.addEventListener("focusin", scheduleSettleResync);
-  window.addEventListener("focusout", scheduleSettleResync);
+  window.addEventListener("focusout", (event) => {
+    noteTextEntryBlur(event.target);
+    scheduleSettleResync();
+  });
 
   syncPanelAnchor();
 }
diff --git a/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js b/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js
index dec6d338..d31c84f2 100644
--- a/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js
+++ b/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ beforeEach(() => {
 
 afterEach(() => {
   delete window.visualViewport;
+  document.documentElement.style.removeProperty("--visible-viewport-height");
 });
 
 describe("a layout viewport taller than the visible area", () => {
@@ -125,6 +126,23 @@ describe("cases that must not move the panels", () => {
     expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("");
   });
 
+  it("holds an applied correction through a pinch instead of clearing it", () => {
+    // The stranded overshoot has not gone away just because the user zoomed;
+    // clearing it mid-gesture would grow the photo 130px under their fingers.
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-130px)");
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 500, scale: 2 });
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-130px)");
+
+    // Zoomed back out onto a viewport that has recovered, it clears.
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 1000 });
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("");
+  });
+
   it("does nothing on a browser without visualViewport", () => {
     setVisualViewport(null);
     setLayoutViewportHeight(1000);
@@ -167,7 +185,8 @@ describe("the software keyboard", () => {
     expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-130px)");
   });
 
-  it("recomputes once the field is blurred again", () => {
+  it("recomputes once the field is blurred and the keyboard has collapsed", () => {
+    jest.useFakeTimers();
     setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });
     initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
     document.getElementById("searchInput").focus();
@@ -176,9 +195,31 @@ describe("the software keyboard", () => {
 
     document.getElementById("searchInput").blur();
     setVisualViewport({ height: 1000 });
+    jest.runAllTimers();
+
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("");
+    jest.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it("does not treat the still-raised keyboard as chrome on the blur edge", () => {
+    // Hiding the search panel blurs its input while the keyboard is still
+    // fully on screen — the keyboard only collapses afterwards. Sampling at
+    // the blur would read the keyboard as a 360px overshoot and fling the
+    // panels (and now the photo) before growing them back.
+    jest.useFakeTimers();
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("searchInput").focus();
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 640 });
     syncPanelAnchor();
 
+    document.getElementById("searchInput").blur();
+    syncPanelAnchor();
     expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("");
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 1000 });
+    jest.runAllTimers();
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("");
+    jest.useRealTimers();
   });
 });
 
@@ -201,6 +242,90 @@ describe("resampling after the viewport settles", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("the --visible-viewport-height custom property", () => {
+  // The swiper container and slide images are sized with 100dvh, which
+  // resolves against the same stranded layout viewport as the panels: after a
+  // stranded fullscreen exit the bottom of the photo hangs off the screen.
+  // swiper.css consumes this property with 100dvh as its fallback.
+  const heightVar = () => document.documentElement.style.getPropertyValue("--visible-viewport-height");
+
+  it("publishes the visible height while the layout viewport is stranded", () => {
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("870px");
+  });
+
+  it("is unset while the viewports agree, leaving the 100dvh fallback in force", () => {
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it("clears again once the viewport catches up", () => {
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("870px");
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 1000 });
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it("is held with the panel correction while the software keyboard is up", () => {
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("searchInput").focus();
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 490 });
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("870px");
+  });
+
+  it("does not shrink the photo for the keyboard alone", () => {
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("searchInput").focus();
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 620 });
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it("does not shrink the photo on the blur edge while the keyboard is still up", () => {
+    jest.useFakeTimers();
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("searchInput").focus();
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 640 });
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+
+    document.getElementById("searchInput").blur();
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("");
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 1000 });
+    jest.runAllTimers();
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("");
+    jest.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it("stays untouched on a rotate with the keyboard up, not recomputed from mixed moments", () => {
+    // A held overshoot from portrait against a fresh landscape clientHeight
+    // would publish a height belonging to neither orientation.
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("searchInput").focus();
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 400 });
+    setLayoutViewportHeight(768);
+    window.dispatchEvent(new Event("orientationchange"));
+
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("870px");
+  });
+});
+
 describe("visibleViewportBottom", () => {
   it("reports the visible bottom edge, not the layout one", () => {
     setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });