diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 5ecf3ef..90c8121 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@
            width: calc(100vw - env(safe-area-inset-left, 0px) - env(safe-area-inset-right, 0px));
            height: calc(100vh - env(safe-area-inset-top, 0px));
            height: calc(100dvh - env(safe-area-inset-top, 0px)); }
+  /* ...but NOT installed. Launched from the homescreen, WebKit does not initialise the DYNAMIC
+     viewport until the geometry is "exercised" — 100dvh stays provisional until you rotate the
+     phone, which is exactly the bug. Standalone has no toolbars, so 100vh is both correct and
+     stable from the first frame; dvh only exists for the browser's disappearing toolbars. */
+  @media (display-mode: standalone) {
+    html { height: 100vh; }
+    canvas { height: calc(100vh - env(safe-area-inset-top, 0px)); }
+  }
   /* desktop key hint — up in the empty top-right corner now that the rack owns the bottom edge */
   #hint { position: fixed; top: 6px; right: 10px; text-align: right;
           font: 400 10px Silkscreen, monospace; color: #6b7688; }
@@ -89,6 +97,6 @@
     <p id="build"></p>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="main.js?v=53"></script>
+<script type="module" src="main.js?v=54"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 950ea98..e405d4d 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ function frame(now) {
 }
 
 fitViewport();
+// iOS PWA cold start. Launched from the homescreen, WebKit resolves the viewport AND every env()
+// safe-area inset once, against a provisional geometry, and never revisits them until the geometry
+// is "exercised" — which is why the game only filled the screen after a rotate and back, and why
+// waiting for an event could never work: nothing fires. Toggling viewport-fit off and on is the
+// known WebKit workaround: it forces that recalculation without the user rotating anything.
+// Standalone only, because that is the only mode with the bug.
+if (navigator.standalone || matchMedia('(display-mode: standalone)').matches) {
+  const meta = document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]'), real = meta.content;
+  meta.content = real.replace('viewport-fit=cover', 'viewport-fit=auto');
+  requestAnimationFrame(() => { meta.content = real; requestAnimationFrame(fitViewport); });
+}
 setupPoint();
 // warm the pixel HUD font so the canvas never paints a system-serif fallback frame
 if (document.fonts) { document.fonts.load('700 8px Silkscreen'); document.fonts.load('400 8px Silkscreen'); }
diff --git a/render.js b/render.js
index d90bc85..93936f6 100644
--- a/render.js
+++ b/render.js
@@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ function drawModal(m) {
 }
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------ frame ----
+const AD_H = 14; // px tall the courtside ad strip is drawn — also the ceiling for centred HUD text
 export function render() {
   ctx.setTransform(RES, 0, 0, RES, 0, 0); // logical W x H coordinates at RES density
   // ease the aim camera FIRST, before anything projects — one camera per frame (see proj)
@@ -655,7 +656,7 @@ export function render() {
   // pinning to that projected line keeps the boards clear of the lawn in BOTH orientations
   // (a fixed baseline offset over-/under-shoots because camF differs portrait vs landscape).
   const standsBottom = proj(0, 0, -6).y;
-  const adH = 14, crowdH = standsBottom - adH + 2;
+  const crowdH = standsBottom - AD_H + 2;
   const crowdImg = SPR['x_crowd'];
   if (crowdImg) {
     // Applause is a real TWO-FRAME animation now: x_crowd is the seated sheet, x_crowd2 the same
@@ -684,9 +685,9 @@ export function render() {
   // courtside advertising: tiled sponsor panels at native aspect (never half-cut text)
   const ads = SPR['x_ads'];
   if (ads) {
-    const tw = ads.width * (adH / ads.height);
-    for (let x = 0; x < W; x += tw) ctx.drawImage(ads, x, standsBottom - adH, tw, adH);
-  } else { ctx.fillStyle = pal.board; ctx.fillRect(0, standsBottom - adH, W, adH); }
+    const tw = ads.width * (AD_H / ads.height);
+    for (let x = 0; x < W; x += tw) ctx.drawImage(ads, x, standsBottom - AD_H, tw, AD_H);
+  } else { ctx.fillStyle = pal.board; ctx.fillRect(0, standsBottom - AD_H, W, AD_H); }
   // the rot dims the stadium: one tint over crowd + boards, fading home during duels
   // the rot dims the stadium — but 0.5 on top of an already-dark crowd sheet buried the stands in
   // splatter mode, where you spend most of the game. 0.26 still reads as "the lights went wrong".
@@ -943,8 +944,14 @@ export function render() {
                G.phase === 'over' ? G.overT : 0,
                G.interlude ? G.interlude.introT : 0);
   if (waitT > 0.5) {
-    ctx.font = F(10); ctx.fillStyle = hexA(UI.warm, 0.85);
-    ctx.fillText('RESUMING IN ' + Math.ceil(waitT), W / 2, Math.round(H * 0.4)); // out in the open, not tucked under the HUD
+    // Kept clear of the ad strip — centred on H alone it landed right on the boards, which is the
+    // busiest band on the screen. The strip's own projected line is the ceiling, so it stays legible
+    // whatever the phone's height does to the layout. A 1px shadow, not a box, carries it over the crowd.
+    const txt = 'RESUMING IN ' + Math.ceil(waitT);
+    const y = Math.min(Math.round(H * 0.34), Math.round(proj(0, 0, -6).y) - AD_H - 16);
+    ctx.font = F(10);
+    ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(0,0,0,0.55)'; ctx.fillText(txt, W / 2 + 1, y + 1);
+    ctx.fillStyle = hexA(UI.warm, 0.92); ctx.fillText(txt, W / 2, y);
   }
   if (G.phase === 'pretoss' && score.server === 'P' && G.mode !== 'eaten' && !G.horde && !(G.mgT > 0) && !G.aim && waitT <= 0.5) { // while pulling, the draw meter owns this slot
     ctx.fillStyle = UI.warm; ctx.font = F(8);