diff --git a/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.dom.test.tsx
index ef439ef9..363f1f5e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.dom.test.tsx
@@ -1648,6 +1648,25 @@ describe("PlayerModal — the docked bar's fullscreen", () => {
   it("is left out where it cannot", () => {
     expect(maximised(false)).toBe(1);
   });
+
+  // On an iPad the bar's row outgrew the screen and its last control — the way out of the big
+  // view — scrolled off the right edge. The way out stays put; only the controls before it scroll.
+  it("keeps the way out in sight: glyphs only, and out of the scrolling part", () => {
+    maximised(true);
+    const out = screen.getByRole("button", { name: "player.exitMaximize" });
+    const fulls = screen.getAllByLabelText("player.fullscreen");
+    const full = fulls[fulls.length - 1]!;
+    const bar = out.parentElement!;
+    // The windowed row keeps its own Mark watched; this is the bar's.
+    const watched = screen
+      .getAllByRole("button", { name: "player.markWatched" })
+      .find((b) => bar.contains(b))!;
+    for (const b of [out, full, watched]) expect(b.textContent).toBe("");
+    const scroller = watched.closest<HTMLElement>(".overflow-x-auto");
+    expect(scroller).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(scroller!.contains(out)).toBe(false);
+    expect(scroller!.contains(full)).toBe(false);
+  });
 });
 
 // Clip mode: the panel sits under the video (the video is its preview), Escape closes the panel and
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.tsx b/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.tsx
index d2bcd5ba..b74bbbdb 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/player/PlayerModal.tsx
@@ -1204,59 +1204,64 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
               {(maximized || isFullscreen) && !clipDocked && (
                 <div
                   onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
-                  className="absolute inset-x-0 bottom-0 z-menu flex h-14 items-center justify-start gap-x-3 overflow-x-auto border-t border-white/10 bg-media-chrome/95 media-marks px-3 text-sm text-white"
+                  className="absolute inset-x-0 bottom-0 z-menu flex h-14 items-center gap-x-3 border-t border-white/10 bg-media-chrome/95 media-marks px-3 text-sm text-white"
                 >
-                  {hasQueue && (
-                    <>
-                      <PlayerTransportControls
-                        variant="docked"
-                        index={index}
-                        queueLength={queue!.length}
-                        canPrev={canPrev}
-                        canNext={canNext}
-                        autoMode={autoMode}
-                        loopMode={loopMode}
-                        onPrev={goPrev}
-                        onNext={goNext}
-                        onCycleAuto={cycleAuto}
-                        onCycleLoop={cycleLoop}
-                      />
-                      <span className="h-4 w-px bg-white/20" />
-                    </>
-                  )}
-                  {/* Both work in fullscreen now: add-to-playlist's popover and download's Modal both
+                  {/* Glyphs only, each named by its label and tooltip. The controls scroll when a
+                    narrow window cannot hold them; the way out (fullscreen, leave the big view)
+                    stays outside that part, in sight: on an iPad it had scrolled off the right. */}
+                  <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-1 items-center gap-x-3 overflow-x-auto">
+                    {hasQueue && (
+                      <>
+                        <PlayerTransportControls
+                          variant="docked"
+                          index={index}
+                          queueLength={queue!.length}
+                          canPrev={canPrev}
+                          canNext={canNext}
+                          autoMode={autoMode}
+                          loopMode={loopMode}
+                          onPrev={goPrev}
+                          onNext={goNext}
+                          onCycleAuto={cycleAuto}
+                          onCycleLoop={cycleLoop}
+                        />
+                        <span className="h-4 w-px bg-white/20" />
+                      </>
+                    )}
+                    {/* Both work in fullscreen now: add-to-playlist's popover and download's Modal both
                     portal into the fullscreen element rather than <body> (a body-portaled node is
                     painted underneath the element holding the lock, i.e. invisible). */}
-                  {!navigated && <AddToPlaylist videoId={subject.id} variant="overlay" />}
-                  {!navigated && (
-                    <DownloadButton videoId={subject.id} title={subject.title} variant="overlay" />
-                  )}
-                  {/* Clip mode here: the clip panel takes this bar's place. */}
-                  {playerError == null && (
-                    <IconButton
-                      ref={clipDockButtonRef}
-                      variant="overlay"
-                      onClick={openClip}
-                      label={t("clip.open")}
-                    >
-                      <Scissors />
-                    </IconButton>
-                  )}
-                  {!navigated && (
-                    <Button
-                      variant="overlay"
-                      size="sm"
-                      pressed={watched}
-                      onClick={() => setWatched(!watched)}
-                      label={watched ? t("player.watchedUnmark") : t("player.markWatched")}
-                      icon={watched ? <CheckCheck /> : <Check />}
-                    >
-                      <span className="hidden md:inline">
-                        {watched ? t("player.watched") : t("player.markWatched")}
-                      </span>
-                    </Button>
-                  )}
-                  <span className="h-4 w-px bg-white/20" />
+                    {!navigated && <AddToPlaylist videoId={subject.id} variant="overlay" />}
+                    {!navigated && (
+                      <DownloadButton
+                        videoId={subject.id}
+                        title={subject.title}
+                        variant="overlay"
+                      />
+                    )}
+                    {/* Clip mode here: the clip panel takes this bar's place. */}
+                    {playerError == null && (
+                      <IconButton
+                        ref={clipDockButtonRef}
+                        variant="overlay"
+                        onClick={openClip}
+                        label={t("clip.open")}
+                      >
+                        <Scissors />
+                      </IconButton>
+                    )}
+                    {!navigated && (
+                      <IconButton
+                        variant="overlay"
+                        pressed={watched}
+                        onClick={() => setWatched(!watched)}
+                        label={watched ? t("player.watchedUnmark") : t("player.markWatched")}
+                      >
+                        {watched ? <CheckCheck /> : <Check />}
+                      </IconButton>
+                    )}
+                  </div>
+                  <span className="h-4 w-px shrink-0 bg-white/20" />
                   {/* Absent where the browser cannot fullscreen an element (Brave on an iPad): there
                     the window-filling view is the biggest, and YouTube's own button opens the
                     system player. */}
@@ -1269,9 +1274,8 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
                       {isFullscreen ? <Minimize /> : <Maximize />}
                     </IconButton>
                   )}
-                  <Button
+                  <IconButton
                     variant="overlay"
-                    size="sm"
                     onClick={(e) => {
                       e.stopPropagation();
                       exitBigView();
@@ -1279,10 +1283,9 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
                       focusModal();
                     }}
                     label={t("player.exitMaximize")}
-                    icon={<Minimize2 />}
                   >
-                    <span className="hidden sm:inline">{t("player.exitMaximize")}</span>
-                  </Button>
+                    <Minimize2 />
+                  </IconButton>
                 </div>
               )}
               {/* Discreet badge while YouTube's own controls have taken over (overlay yielded). */}
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.dom.test.tsx
index f72b89da..dce07efd 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.dom.test.tsx
@@ -60,6 +60,20 @@ describe("PlayerTransportControls", () => {
       expect(loop.hasAttribute("data-lit")).toBe(false);
     });
 
+  // The big view's bar spoke its controls' names from a width up, and on an iPad the row outgrew the
+  // screen: its last control scrolled out of sight. A glyph in both places; the name is the label.
+  for (const variant of ["modal", "docked"] as const)
+    it(`${variant}: every control is its glyph alone`, () => {
+      mount(variant, "next", "all");
+      for (const name of [
+        "player.previous",
+        "player.next",
+        /^player\.autoAdvance\.label: /,
+        /^player\.loop\.label: /,
+      ])
+        expect(button(name).textContent).toBe("");
+    });
+
   for (const variant of ["modal", "docked"] as const)
     it(`${variant}: each mode's tooltip names it and the mode it is in`, () => {
       for (const loopMode of LOOP_MODES) {
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.tsx b/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.tsx
index 9d5c62f9..408dd602 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/player/playerModalControls.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { ListEnd, ListStart, Repeat, Repeat1, Shuffle, SkipBack, SkipForward } from "lucide-react";
 import type { VideoDetail } from "../../lib/api";
 import type { AutoMode, LoopMode } from "../../lib/playerModes";
-import { Button } from "../../components/ui/Button";
 import { IconButton } from "../../components/ui/IconButton";
 import { StateMessage } from "../../components/ui/QueryState";
 import { ClampedText } from "../../components/ui/ClampedText";
@@ -15,11 +14,11 @@ import { renderDescription } from "./descriptionLinks";
 
 /** The queue transport cluster — prev / counter / next, then the auto-advance and loop modes.
  *  Rendered in two places from ONE list of controls: the modal's queue bar (`variant:"modal"`, normal
- *  glass theme, glyphs only so the whole cluster fits one line of the side panel) and the big-view
- *  docked control bar (`variant:"docked"`, white-on-dark, labels shown from a breakpoint up). What a
- *  control does, its glyph and its tooltip are said once; only the primitive and the label's
- *  visibility differ. Every control's tooltip carries its full name (and the shortcut, where it has
- *  one), so a glyph-only one still says what it does and which mode it is in. The modes are cycles,
+ *  glass theme) and the big-view docked control bar (`variant:"docked"`, white-on-dark). Glyphs only
+ *  in both: the docked bar once spoke the names from a width up, and on an iPad its row outgrew the
+ *  screen. What a control does, its glyph and its tooltip are said once; only the look differs.
+ *  Every control's tooltip carries its full name (and the shortcut, where it has one), so a glyph
+ *  still says what it does and which mode it is in. The modes are cycles,
  *  not switches: `lit` when not off, and the name says which. Auto-advance wears list glyphs of its
  *  own — the skip arrows are Previous / Next, beside it (DESIGN.md "A glyph means one thing"). The
  *  wrapper (fragment vs. bordered row) stays at the call site. */
@@ -51,7 +50,8 @@ export function PlayerTransportControls({
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const docked = variant === "docked";
-  const counter = docked ? "tabular-nums text-white/70" : "text-muted tabular-nums";
+  // Never broken or squeezed: in a row that scrolls, a squeezed "1 / 55" stood on three lines.
+  const counter = `shrink-0 whitespace-nowrap tabular-nums ${docked ? "text-white/70" : "text-muted"}`;
   const divider = docked ? "h-4 w-px bg-white/20" : "w-px h-4 bg-border";
   const autoName = `${t("player.autoAdvance.label")}: ${t(`player.autoAdvance.${autoMode}`)}`;
   const loopName = `${t("player.loop.label")}: ${t(`player.loop.${loopMode}`)}`;
@@ -63,10 +63,6 @@ export function PlayerTransportControls({
     onClick: () => void;
     disabled?: boolean;
     lit?: boolean;
-    /** From which width the docked bar shows the name beside the glyph. */
-    labelFrom: "sm" | "md";
-    /** The glyph after the name (Next points the way it goes). */
-    trailing?: boolean;
   };
   const step: Control[] = [
     {
@@ -76,7 +72,6 @@ export function PlayerTransportControls({
       title: `${t("player.previous")} · Shift+←`,
       onClick: onPrev,
       disabled: !canPrev,
-      labelFrom: "sm",
     },
     {
       key: "next",
@@ -85,8 +80,6 @@ export function PlayerTransportControls({
       title: `${t("player.next")} · Shift+→`,
       onClick: onNext,
       disabled: !canNext,
-      labelFrom: "sm",
-      trailing: true,
     },
   ];
   // Persistent playback settings — cycle on click, saved to your account.
@@ -99,7 +92,6 @@ export function PlayerTransportControls({
       title: `${autoName} · ${t("player.autoAdvance.hint")}`,
       onClick: onCycleAuto,
       lit: autoMode !== "off",
-      labelFrom: "md",
     },
     {
       key: "loop",
@@ -108,39 +100,21 @@ export function PlayerTransportControls({
       title: `${loopName} · ${t("player.loop.hint")}`,
       onClick: onCycleLoop,
       lit: loopMode !== "off",
-      labelFrom: "md",
     },
   ];
-  const render = (c: Control) =>
-    docked ? (
-      <Button
-        key={c.key}
-        variant="overlay"
-        size="sm"
-        icon={c.trailing ? undefined : c.glyph}
-        onClick={c.onClick}
-        disabled={c.disabled}
-        lit={c.lit}
-        label={c.name}
-        title={c.title}
-      >
-        <span className={c.labelFrom === "sm" ? "hidden sm:inline" : "hidden md:inline"}>
-          {c.name}
-        </span>
-        {c.trailing && c.glyph}
-      </Button>
-    ) : (
-      <IconButton
-        key={c.key}
-        onClick={c.onClick}
-        disabled={c.disabled}
-        lit={c.lit}
-        label={c.name}
-        title={c.title}
-      >
-        {c.glyph}
-      </IconButton>
-    );
+  const render = (c: Control) => (
+    <IconButton
+      key={c.key}
+      variant={docked ? "overlay" : undefined}
+      onClick={c.onClick}
+      disabled={c.disabled}
+      lit={c.lit}
+      label={c.name}
+      title={c.title}
+    >
+      {c.glyph}
+    </IconButton>
+  );
   return (
     <>
       {render(step[0]!)}
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/player.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/player.json
index 76783093..e2169a3f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/player.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/player.json
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
   "channel": "Channel",
   "views": "{{formattedCount}} views",
   "stream": "stream",
-  "watched": "Watched",
   "markWatched": "Mark watched",
   "watchedUnmark": "Watched — click to unmark",
   "jumpToTime": "Jump to this time",
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/player.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/player.json
index c0afd43a..ddc5cf69 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/player.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/player.json
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
   "channel": "Csatorna",
   "views": "{{formattedCount}} megtekintés",
   "stream": "élő adás",
-  "watched": "Megtekintve",
   "markWatched": "Megtekintettnek jelöl",
   "watchedUnmark": "Megtekintve — kattints a jelölés visszavonásához",
   "jumpToTime": "Ugrás erre az időpontra",