diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 0020170..54cc79a 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -645,6 +645,6 @@ if (location.hostname !== 'splatter-tennis.wuwi.one') {
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=266"></script>
+<script type="module" src="src/main.js?v=267"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/main.js b/src/main.js
index b7f3b6e..d7c785a 100644
--- a/src/main.js
+++ b/src/main.js
@@ -193,11 +193,17 @@ vsCode.addEventListener('keydown', e => { if (e.key === 'Enter') vsGo(true); });
 // SHARE, then COPY. navigator.share is the phone's own sheet (WhatsApp, Signal, wherever the
 // friend actually is) and is exactly the "easier setup" — the clipboard is the desktop fallback,
 // and the code stays on screen for the two of them in the same room reading it aloud.
+// THE CODE RIDES THE MESSAGE, not just the link. An Android phone opens the link in the INSTALLED
+// app (the manifest's scope covers the whole site, so its WebAPK claims these URLs) — but an iPhone
+// home-screen app can claim nothing, so the link always opens in Safari, which keeps its own
+// storage and therefore knows nothing about the name they picked inside the app. Four letters in
+// the same message is the whole fix: a friend who has it installed opens their app and types them.
 document.getElementById('vsShare').addEventListener('click', async () => {
-  const url = vsLink(G.net && G.net.code || '');
+  const code = G.net && G.net.code || '';
+  const url = vsLink(code), text = 'COME AND PLAY ME — ROOM CODE ' + code;
   try {
-    if (navigator.share) await navigator.share({ title: 'SPLATTER TENNIS', text: 'COME AND PLAY ME', url });
-    else { await navigator.clipboard.writeText(url); vsSay('vsMsg', 'LINK COPIED — SEND IT TO THEM'); }
+    if (navigator.share) await navigator.share({ title: 'SPLATTER TENNIS', text, url });
+    else { await navigator.clipboard.writeText(text + ' ' + url); vsSay('vsMsg', 'COPIED — SEND IT TO THEM'); }
   } catch { /* a cancelled share sheet is not an error */ }
 });
 const vsQuit = () => { endNetVs(); vsOpen(); };     // a room you walked out of must give its socket back