diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.dom.test.tsx
index ff30b4fb..b49344bb 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.dom.test.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // E28 S3b: the chip family (docs/DESIGN.md "One primitive per button family"). One geometry for a
 // filter, an applied narrowing, a tag and a suggestion, where five files had five.
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { act, cleanup, fireEvent, render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { act, cleanup, fireEvent, render, screen, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
 import { useState } from "react";
 import { Chip, DismissibleChip } from "./Chip";
 import { chipClass } from "./chipStyles";
@@ -70,6 +70,37 @@ describe("Chip", () => {
     expect(document.activeElement).toBe(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Remove News" }));
   });
 
+  // Round 3: the neighbour it hands the focus to can go in the same removal — the "Clear all" that
+  // only shows beside two filters. The focus then goes to the chip before, not to <body>.
+  it("a removing chip whose neighbour goes with it hands the focus to the chip before", async () => {
+    function Row() {
+      const [chips, setChips] = useState(["Music", "News"]);
+      return (
+        <div>
+          {chips.map((c) => (
+            <Chip
+              key={c}
+              variant="token"
+              removeLabel={`Remove ${c}`}
+              onClick={() => setChips((all) => all.filter((x) => x !== c))}
+            >
+              {c}
+            </Chip>
+          ))}
+          {chips.length > 1 && <button onClick={() => setChips([])}>Clear all</button>}
+        </div>
+      );
+    }
+    render(<Row />);
+    const news = screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Remove News" });
+    act(() => news.focus());
+    fireEvent.click(news, { detail: 0 });
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "Clear all" })).toBeNull();
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(document.activeElement).toBe(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Remove Music" })),
+    );
+  });
+
   it("the measuring mirror lays out exactly like the chip it measures", () => {
     render(
       <Chip variant="tag" size="xs">
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.tsx
index 1f9b0716..33049528 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/Chip.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import type { ButtonHTMLAttributes, ReactNode } from "react";
 import clsx from "clsx";
 import { X } from "lucide-react";
 import { FocusSafeButton } from "./FocusSafeButton";
-import { focusNeighbour } from "../../lib/useFocusKeeper";
+import { handOffFocus } from "../../lib/useFocusKeeper";
 import { chipClass, type ChipSize, type ChipVariant } from "./chipStyles";
 
 // The chip family (docs/DESIGN.md "One primitive per button family"): a small rounded-full token that
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ export const Chip = forwardRef<HTMLButtonElement, ChipProps>(function Chip(
         // went to <body> (round 2, F6 — the active-filter chips of the feed and Plex). Every
         // removal chip gets it here, once, instead of each caller remembering.
         if (removeLabel && e.currentTarget === document.activeElement)
-          focusNeighbour(e.currentTarget);
-        onClick?.(e);
+          handOffFocus(e.currentTarget, () => onClick?.(e));
+        else onClick?.(e);
       }}
       {...rest}
     >
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ export function DismissibleChip({
           // next chip (else the previous one, else what follows the row) first, not to <body> (E28
           // review F5). A mouse press on it leaves the focus where it was.
           const chip = e.currentTarget.parentElement;
-          if (chip && e.currentTarget === document.activeElement) focusNeighbour(chip);
-          onDismiss();
+          if (chip && e.currentTarget === document.activeElement) handOffFocus(chip, onDismiss);
+          else onDismiss();
         }}
         aria-label={dismissLabel}
         title={dismissLabel}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.dom.test.tsx
index a0da1d53..6980d13f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.dom.test.tsx
@@ -125,6 +125,67 @@ describe("PageScroller scroll memory", () => {
     expect(main.scrollTop).toBe(450);
   });
 
+  // Round 3: landing at the end shows Back to top, whose spacer then brings the spot within reach.
+  it("finishes the way to a spot the spacer brings within reach after it lands", () => {
+    let frames: FrameRequestCallback[] = [];
+    vi.stubGlobal("requestAnimationFrame", (cb: FrameRequestCallback) => frames.push(cb));
+    const flush = (n: number) => {
+      for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+        const run = frames;
+        frames = [];
+        for (const cb of run) cb(0);
+      }
+    };
+    setEntry(1);
+    const { container } = render(<PageScroller scrollKey="e:k1">x</PageScroller>);
+    const main = sizedMain(container);
+    main.scrollTop = 500;
+    fireEvent.scroll(main);
+    setEntry(2);
+    notifyNav();
+    flush(1);
+    Object.defineProperty(main, "scrollHeight", { configurable: true, value: 928 }); // no spacer
+    setEntry(1);
+    notifyNav();
+    flush(12);
+    expect(main.scrollTop).toBe(428);
+    Object.defineProperty(main, "scrollHeight", { configurable: true, value: 1000 }); // spacer up
+    flush(1);
+    expect(main.scrollTop).toBe(500);
+  });
+
+  // Round 3: the give-up put the page at its end 1.5 s in, wherever the reader had scrolled to.
+  it("stops where the reader takes the page over, even for a spot it has not reached", () => {
+    let frames: FrameRequestCallback[] = [];
+    vi.stubGlobal("requestAnimationFrame", (cb: FrameRequestCallback) => frames.push(cb));
+    const flush = (n: number) => {
+      for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+        const run = frames;
+        frames = [];
+        for (const cb of run) cb(0);
+      }
+    };
+    setEntry(1);
+    const { container } = render(<PageScroller scrollKey="e:k1">x</PageScroller>);
+    const main = sizedMain(container);
+    main.scrollTop = 450;
+    fireEvent.scroll(main);
+    setEntry(2);
+    notifyNav();
+    flush(1);
+    Object.defineProperty(main, "scrollHeight", { configurable: true, value: 600 }); // far short
+    setEntry(1);
+    notifyNav();
+    flush(5);
+    fireEvent.wheel(main);
+    main.scrollTop = 30; // where the reader scrolled
+    flush(100);
+    expect(main.scrollTop).toBe(30);
+    Object.defineProperty(main, "scrollHeight", { configurable: true, value: 1000 }); // loaded
+    flush(1);
+    expect(main.scrollTop).toBe(30);
+  });
+
   it("restores per content key within one entry: a new key resets to top, returning restores", () => {
     setEntry(10);
     const { container, rerender } = render(<PageScroller scrollKey="e10:a">x</PageScroller>);
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.tsx
index 92234d85..a4813094 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/PageScroller.tsx
@@ -31,7 +31,12 @@ function rememberScroll(key: string, top: number): void {
 // A spot the page can no longer reach — the last stretch of a page scrolled to its very end, whose
 // Back-to-top spacer only shows once scrolled — goes as far as the page does: it used to be left at
 // the top (round 2, F8). Only a spacer's worth short, and only once the height has held still, is
-// that answer early; a list still loading is further short than that, and gets the full wait.
+// that answer early; a list still loading is further short than that, and gets the full wait. And
+// landing there is not the end of it: that scroll is what shows Back to top, whose spacer then
+// makes the spot reachable, so the loop watches a few frames more and finishes the way (round 3).
+//
+// The reader scrolling meanwhile — a wheel, a finger, a key, the scrollbar — takes the page over:
+// the restore stops where they are, instead of pulling them back or dropping them at the end.
 const SETTLED_FRAMES = 10;
 const SPACER_REM = 6;
 function restoreScroll(el: HTMLElement, top: number): () => void {
@@ -43,27 +48,42 @@ function restoreScroll(el: HTMLElement, top: number): () => void {
   let frames = 0;
   let still = 0;
   let lastMax = -1;
+  let landedAt = -1;
   let cancelled = false;
+  const stop = () => {
+    cancelled = true;
+    cancelAnimationFrame(raf);
+    el.removeEventListener("wheel", stop);
+    el.removeEventListener("touchstart", stop);
+    el.removeEventListener("pointerdown", stop);
+    document.removeEventListener("keydown", stop, true);
+  };
+  el.addEventListener("wheel", stop, { passive: true });
+  el.addEventListener("touchstart", stop, { passive: true });
+  el.addEventListener("pointerdown", stop);
+  document.addEventListener("keydown", stop, true);
   const tick = () => {
     if (cancelled) return;
     const max = el.scrollHeight - el.clientHeight;
     if (max >= top) el.scrollTop = top;
-    if (el.scrollTop >= top - 1) return; // reached
-    still = max === lastMax ? still + 1 : 0;
-    lastMax = max;
-    const rem = parseFloat(getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).fontSize) || 16;
-    const nearEnd = max > 0 && top - max <= SPACER_REM * rem;
-    if ((nearEnd && still >= SETTLED_FRAMES) || frames++ > 90) {
-      el.scrollTop = max; // as near as the page reaches now
-      return;
+    if (el.scrollTop >= top - 1) return stop(); // reached
+    if (landedAt >= 0) {
+      if (frames - landedAt > SETTLED_FRAMES) return stop(); // no spacer came: the end it is
+    } else {
+      still = max === lastMax ? still + 1 : 0;
+      lastMax = max;
+      const rem = parseFloat(getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).fontSize) || 16;
+      const nearEnd = max > 0 && top - max <= SPACER_REM * rem;
+      if ((nearEnd && still >= SETTLED_FRAMES) || frames > 90) {
+        el.scrollTop = max; // as near as the page reaches now
+        landedAt = frames;
+      }
     }
+    frames++;
     raf = requestAnimationFrame(tick);
   };
   raf = requestAnimationFrame(tick);
-  return () => {
-    cancelled = true;
-    cancelAnimationFrame(raf);
-  };
+  return stop;
 }
 
 // The page's scroll container — the ONE scroller in the app, owned by PageShell. The feed, the
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/useFocusKeeper.ts b/frontend/src/lib/useFocusKeeper.ts
index 9f915742..5292d324 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/useFocusKeeper.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/useFocusKeeper.ts
@@ -49,6 +49,27 @@ export function focusNeighbour(el: HTMLElement): boolean {
   return false;
 }
 
+/** Run `remove`, which takes `el` off the page, without dropping `el`'s focus: it goes to the
+ *  neighbour first (`focusNeighbour`). That neighbour may go in the same removal — the "Clear all"
+ *  that only shows beside two filters, the "+1" of the last hidden one (E28 review round 3) — so
+ *  once the removal has rendered, a focus left on <body> goes to what preceded `el`, else to the
+ *  first control left in its row. Only when the focus was lost: a focus the reader moved stays. */
+export function handOffFocus(el: HTMLElement, remove: () => void): void {
+  const before = firstFocusable(el.previousSibling, true);
+  const row = el.parentElement;
+  focusNeighbour(el);
+  remove();
+  // A timer, not a frame: a page the browser is not painting runs no requestAnimationFrame.
+  window.setTimeout(() => {
+    const now = document.activeElement;
+    if (now && now !== document.body && now.isConnected) return;
+    const stayed = before?.isConnected && shown(before) ? before : null;
+    (stayed ?? (row?.isConnected ? firstFocusable(row.firstChild) : null))?.focus({
+      preventScroll: true,
+    });
+  }, 0);
+}
+
 // The element the keeper last put the focus on, while it still holds it. A Back that swaps the page
 // or a sub-view removes the held control too, and the keeper's stand-in then sat where
 // `restoreNavPosition` looks for an untouched <body>: the restore gave up and Back left the focus on