diff --git a/frontend/src/components/PlexMenu.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/PlexMenu.dom.test.tsx
index 17e29bee..ac5b2105 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/PlexMenu.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/PlexMenu.dom.test.tsx
@@ -364,7 +364,9 @@ describe("a Plex title's menu — Add to collection", () => {
     // A menu owns its items only: the line about the list sits beside it, not in it.
     expect(document.querySelector("[role=menu]")).not.toBeNull();
     expect(alert.closest("[role=menu]")).toBeNull();
-    list.mockResolvedValue({ collections: [coll("cB", "Beta", false)] });
+    list.mockResolvedValue({
+      collections: [coll("cB", "Beta", false), coll("cC", "Gamma", false)],
+    });
     // Retry from the keyboard: the focused button goes as the list loads, and focus must not be left
     // on <body> with the menu open — it lands on the first row that came back.
     const retry = (await screen.findByText("common.retry")).closest("button")!;
@@ -372,6 +374,9 @@ describe("a Plex title's menu — Add to collection", () => {
     fireEvent.click(retry);
     const beta = await checkRow("Beta");
     await vi.waitFor(() => expect(document.activeElement).toBe(beta));
+    // …and the menu's own arrows carry on from there.
+    fireEvent.keyDown(beta, { key: "ArrowDown" });
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(await checkRow("Gamma"));
   });
 
   it("clears the name when Plex made the collection and only the read after it failed", async () => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/MembershipMenu.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/MembershipMenu.tsx
index 2ab11c5d..5739dba6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/MembershipMenu.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/MembershipMenu.tsx
@@ -79,18 +79,23 @@ export function MembershipMenu({
   useEffect(() => {
     if (shownStatus.current === status) return;
     shownStatus.current = status;
-    const root = rootRef.current;
-    const at = document.activeElement;
-    // …unless a name is being typed into it meanwhile.
-    const parked = at === placed.current && !(at instanceof HTMLInputElement && at.value);
-    const lost = at == null || at === document.body || parked;
-    if (!root || !lost) return;
-    const target =
-      root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("[role=menuitemcheckbox]") ??
-      root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("input") ??
-      root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("button");
-    target?.focus();
-    placed.current = target;
+    // A frame later: rows that just mounted join the menu's list a render after this effect, and a
+    // row focused before that is not known to it — the arrows then did nothing from it.
+    const frame = requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+      const root = rootRef.current;
+      const at = document.activeElement;
+      // …unless a name is being typed into it meanwhile.
+      const parked = at === placed.current && !(at instanceof HTMLInputElement && at.value);
+      const lost = at == null || at === document.body || parked;
+      if (!root || !lost) return;
+      const target =
+        root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("[role=menuitemcheckbox]") ??
+        root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("input") ??
+        root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("button");
+      target?.focus();
+      placed.current = target;
+    });
+    return () => cancelAnimationFrame(frame);
   }, [status]);
 
   async function submit() {