diff --git a/src/lib/components/bench/LineageCanvas.svelte b/src/lib/components/bench/LineageCanvas.svelte
index 8795998..ae8f5a3 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/bench/LineageCanvas.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/bench/LineageCanvas.svelte
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 	import Button from '../common/Button.svelte';
 	import Icon from '../common/Icon.svelte';
 	import type { WorldEntry } from '$lib/state';
-	import { bench, canvas, prefersReducedMotion } from '$lib/state';
+	import { bench, canvas, prefersReducedMotion, shell } from '$lib/state';
 	import { NODE_W, ESTIMATED_NODE_H, edgePath } from '$lib/lab/lineage';
 
 	interface Props {
@@ -190,6 +190,15 @@
 		return { minX, minY, maxX, maxY };
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * On a phone the transport pill floats over the bottom of the canvas; reserve its band so a framed
+	 * tree sits ABOVE it rather than with its lowest node tucked underneath. Desktop reserves nothing.
+	 */
+	const PILL_BAND = 120;
+	function bottomReserve() {
+		return shell.narrow ? PILL_BAND : 0;
+	}
+
 	/** Frame the whole tree in the viewport - the "recenter" action. */
 	function recenterTree() {
 		const rect = container.getBoundingClientRect();
@@ -198,7 +207,7 @@
 			return;
 		}
 		const { minX, minY, maxX, maxY } = treeBounds(bench.worlds);
-		canvas.fitBox(minX, minY, maxX, maxY, rect.width, rect.height);
+		canvas.fitBox(minX, minY, maxX, maxY, rect.width, rect.height - bottomReserve());
 	}
 
 	// Wheel must be a NON-PASSIVE listener or preventDefault is ignored and the page scrolls instead
@@ -229,7 +238,8 @@
 		const s = Math.min(1, (rect.width - 2 * MARGIN) / NODE_W); // 1 on anything but a narrow phone
 		canvas.scale = s;
 		canvas.tx = (rect.width - (maxX - minX) * s) / 2 - minX * s;
-		canvas.ty = (rect.height - (maxY - minY) * s) / 2 - minY * s;
+		// Centre in the height ABOVE the phone's floating pill, so the opening frame clears it too.
+		canvas.ty = (rect.height - bottomReserve() - (maxY - minY) * s) / 2 - minY * s;
 	}
 
 	onMount(() => {
diff --git a/src/lib/components/common/Segmented.svelte b/src/lib/components/common/Segmented.svelte
index 19e9bbe..81675e9 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/common/Segmented.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/common/Segmented.svelte
@@ -110,15 +110,15 @@
 		color: var(--ink);
 	}
 
-	/* The chosen segment lifts OFF the track. The track is `--chip` (panel tinted TOWARD the ink - a
-	   little lighter in dark, a little darker in light), so a plain `--panel` fill lifts in light but
-	   SINKS in dark, where it comes out darker than the track (the selected segment read as a recessed
-	   hole with a leaking shadow). Mixing a touch of white in makes the thumb sit ABOVE the track in
-	   both themes - unchanged white in light, a genuinely lighter grey in dark. */
+	/* The chosen segment reads through a clean, FLAT fill that is a step lighter than the track. The
+	   track is `--chip` (panel tinted toward the ink - lighter in dark, darker in light), so a plain
+	   `--panel` fill lifts in light but SINKS in dark (the selected segment came out darker than the
+	   track, a recessed hole). Mixing a touch of white in makes the thumb sit clearly ABOVE the track in
+	   both themes. NO shadow: on the near-black dark track its blur leaked past the rounded corners and
+	   read as a crooked/offset box - the lightness step alone is the signal. */
 	.checked {
-		background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--panel), #fff 15%);
+		background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--panel), #fff 18%);
 		color: var(--ink);
-		box-shadow: var(--shadow-segment);
 	}
 
 	/* The panel's compact rows: eyebrow-sized type, tight padding - same roles, less chrome. */