diff --git a/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.test.ts b/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.test.ts
index 44d723c5e7..2600e8df43 100644
--- a/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.test.ts
+++ b/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.test.ts
@@ -188,6 +188,26 @@ function findElementByType(node: Node, typeName: string): Record<string, unknown
   return null;
 }
 
+/** Height of the first node carrying an explicit `style.height` (an in-scroll spacer). */
+function findElementHeight(node: Node): number | null {
+  if (node === null || typeof node !== 'object') {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const props = node.props ?? {};
+  const style = props.style as { height?: unknown } | undefined;
+  if (typeof style?.height === 'number') {
+    return style.height;
+  }
+  const children = props.children;
+  for (const child of Array.isArray(children) ? children : [children]) {
+    const found = findElementHeight(child as Node);
+    if (found !== null) {
+      return found;
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
 function findElement(node: Node, typeName: string): Record<string, unknown> | null {
   if (node === null || typeof node !== 'object') {
     return null;
@@ -231,6 +251,14 @@ function findOnLayoutHandler(
   return null;
 }
 
+/** The pinned footer's own bottom padding — the form's single clearance source. */
+function findFooterPaddingBottom(node: Node): number | null {
+  const lift = findElementByType(node, 'AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView');
+  const footer = findElementByType(lift?.children as Node, 'View');
+  const style = footer?.style as { paddingBottom?: unknown } | undefined;
+  return typeof style?.paddingBottom === 'number' ? style.paddingBottom : null;
+}
+
 const INSTANCE: InstancePickerInstance = {
   connectionId: 'conn-abc',
   name: 'laptop',
@@ -337,7 +365,7 @@ describe('NewSessionConfigureForm', () => {
   });
 
   it.each(['android', 'ios'] as const)(
-    'clears the navigation bar at the screen root and lifts the body above the IME on %s',
+    'floors the pinned footer at the safe-area bottom and lifts it above the IME on %s',
     async os => {
       platformState.OS = os;
       insetsState.bottom = 42;
@@ -347,10 +375,9 @@ describe('NewSessionConfigureForm', () => {
         // eslint-disable-next-line new-cap -- plain function call, matching repo test convention
         const element = NewSessionConfigureForm({ ...defaultProps() }) as Node;
 
-        // The root pads by the safe-area inset, so the pinned Start footer
-        // (its child) can never render inside the navigation bar's region.
-        expect(findElementByType(element, 'View')?.style).toEqual({ paddingBottom: 42 });
-        // Neither platform resizes the window for the IME, so the body sits
+        // The helper floors the raw inset at 16 and adds 16: max(42, 16) + 16.
+        expect(findFooterPaddingBottom(element)).toBe(58);
+        // Neither platform resizes the window for the IME, so the footer sits
         // inside a keyboard-lift view that adds the IME height on top of the
         // safe area — the same implementation on iOS and Android.
         expect(findElementByType(element, 'AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView')).not.toBeNull();
@@ -377,20 +404,23 @@ describe('NewSessionConfigureForm', () => {
       expect(scrollBody).not.toBeNull();
       expect(findElementByType(scrollBody, 'NewSessionStartButton')).toBeNull();
 
-      // It renders in the footer instead: a sibling of the body inside the
-      // keyboard-lift view, so it is always on screen and the IME lifts it.
+      // It renders in the footer instead: a sibling of the body, wrapped in
+      // the keyboard-lift view, so it is always on screen and the IME lifts it.
       const liftView = findElement(element, 'AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView');
       expect(liftView).not.toBeNull();
-      expect(findElementByType(liftView, 'ScrollView')).not.toBeNull();
       expect(findElementByType(liftView, 'NewSessionStartButton')).not.toBeNull();
+      // The footer alone rides the lift view; the scroll body stays outside it,
+      // so the IME shrinks the body instead of covering the action.
+      expect(findElementByType(liftView, 'ScrollView')).toBeNull();
 
       // Below the body, not above it: the pinned bottom bar.
-      const liftChildren = (liftView?.props as { children?: Node[] } | undefined)?.children ?? [];
-      const bodyIndex = liftChildren.findIndex(
+      const rootView = findElement(element, 'View');
+      const rootChildren = (rootView?.props as { children?: Node[] } | undefined)?.children ?? [];
+      const bodyIndex = rootChildren.findIndex(
         child => (child as { type?: unknown } | undefined)?.type === 'ScrollView'
       );
-      const footerIndex = liftChildren.findIndex(
-        child => findElementByType(child, 'NewSessionStartButton') !== null
+      const footerIndex = rootChildren.findIndex(
+        child => findElementByType(child, 'AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView') !== null
       );
       expect(bodyIndex).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
       expect(footerIndex).toBeGreaterThan(bodyIndex);
@@ -846,7 +876,70 @@ describe('NewSessionConfigureForm', () => {
     expect(findTextContent(remote, t => t.includes('`'))).toBe(false);
   });
 
-  // ── Case 14: reorder wiring lock ──
+  // ── Case 14: bottom navigation-bar clearance ──
+  it('reserves the bottom safe-area inset on the pinned footer so Start clears the navigation bar', async () => {
+    const { NewSessionConfigureForm } = await import('./new-session-configure-form');
+
+    insetsState.bottom = 44;
+    try {
+      // The inset is 44; the helper floors at 16 and adds 16.
+      // eslint-disable-next-line new-cap -- plain function call, matching repo test convention
+      const element = NewSessionConfigureForm(defaultProps()) as Node;
+
+      // The footer is the single source: the root adds no raw inset, so the
+      // padded chain is the floor once, not inset + floor (double padding).
+      expect(findElementByType(element, 'View')?.style).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(findFooterPaddingBottom(element)).toBe(60);
+    } finally {
+      insetsState.bottom = 0;
+    }
+  });
+
+  // ── Case 14b: the clearance leaves no dead space in the scroll body ──
+  it('leaves no in-scroll spacer after the last field', async () => {
+    const { NewSessionConfigureForm } = await import('./new-session-configure-form');
+
+    insetsState.bottom = 44;
+    try {
+      // eslint-disable-next-line new-cap -- plain function call, matching repo test convention
+      const element = NewSessionConfigureForm(defaultProps()) as Node;
+
+      const scrollBody = findElementByType(element, 'ScrollView');
+      expect(scrollBody).not.toBeNull();
+      expect(findElementHeight(scrollBody?.children as Node)).toBeNull();
+    } finally {
+      insetsState.bottom = 0;
+    }
+  });
+
+  // ── Case 14a: the primary action is pinned outside the scroll body ──
+  it('pins Start and the cloud-create recovery outside the scroll body, under the keyboard lift', async () => {
+    const { NewSessionConfigureForm } = await import('./new-session-configure-form');
+
+    // eslint-disable-next-line new-cap -- plain function call, matching repo test convention
+    const element = NewSessionConfigureForm({
+      ...defaultProps(),
+      cloudCreateError: { retryable: true, message: 'prepare failed' },
+    }) as Node;
+
+    // A Start inside the scroll sits below the fold while the composer's
+    // auto-focus keyboard is up, so the primary action must not live there.
+    const scrollBody = findElementByType(element, 'ScrollView');
+    expect(scrollBody).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(findElementByType(scrollBody?.children as Node, 'NewSessionStartButton')).toBeNull();
+    expect(
+      findElementByType(scrollBody?.children as Node, 'NewSessionCloudCreateError')
+    ).toBeNull();
+
+    // Both ride the keyboard-lift footer below the body: the lift shrinks the
+    // body and keeps the action above the IME on either platform.
+    const lift = findElementByType(element, 'AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView');
+    expect(lift).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(findElementByType(lift?.children as Node, 'NewSessionStartButton')).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(findElementByType(lift?.children as Node, 'NewSessionCloudCreateError')).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  // ── Case 13: reorder wiring lock ──
   it('wires onMoveAttachment and onReorderAttachments through to NewSessionPrompt', async () => {
     const { NewSessionConfigureForm } = await import('./new-session-configure-form');
 
diff --git a/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.tsx b/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.tsx
index 7bf5b9f446..dac9dfb8c0 100644
--- a/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.tsx
+++ b/apps/mobile/src/components/agents/new-session-configure-form.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { useState } from 'react';
 import { type LayoutChangeEvent, ScrollView, View } from 'react-native';
 import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next';
-import { useSafeAreaInsets } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';
 
 import { LaunchFolderField } from '@/components/agents/folder-selector';
 import { NewSessionCloudCreateError } from '@/components/agents/new-session-cloud-create-error';
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ import { SegmentedControl } from '@/components/ui/segmented-control';
 import { Text } from '@/components/ui/text';
 import { stripInlineCodeMarkers } from '@/i18n/plain-copy';
 import { remoteSpawnInstanceDisconnectedNote } from '@/lib/remote-submit-outcome';
+import { useDetailScreenBottomPadding } from '@/lib/screen-insets';
 
 /**
  * THE new-session screen body — one screen for every entry point (cloud,
@@ -95,26 +95,38 @@ export function NewSessionConfigureForm({
   // edge (rounded corner, top padding, the prompt's first line) comes back
   // clipped under the header.
   const composerReveal = useComposerRevealScroll();
+  // The pinned footer's single source of bottom clearance: it clears the system
+  // navigation bar under Start. Without it the primary action can sit in the
+  // bar's translucent region a formSheet leaves exposed below itself (the
+  // picker's bottom strip showed its sliver). It rides the footer itself (see
+  // pr-comment-cta.tsx for the same bar pattern) rather than a spacer inside
+  // the ScrollView, which the pinned Start no longer needs and which left dead
+  // space below the last field of a long form.
+  const bottomClearance = useDetailScreenBottomPadding();
   // The form is edge-to-edge and the window never resizes for the IME on
-  // either platform, so the screen needs two floors: the navigation-bar inset
-  // — the Start action sits in a footer below the scroll body, and without the
-  // inset the footer would render in the navigation bar's region (a formSheet
-  // over this screen no longer leaves that region exposed below itself: the
-  // sheet is fixed at its shared options, `sheetShouldOverflowTopInset`) — and
-  // the keyboard height, because the composer auto-focuses on open and without
-  // the keyboard floor the Start control stays half-hidden behind the keyboard
-  // strip. The keyboard-lift view is the app's cross-platform IME primitive
-  // (keyboardDidShow/DidHide on Android, keyboardWillShow/WillHide on iOS), so
-  // the same implementation runs on both platforms; the footer is its second
-  // child, so the IME lifts the action too.
+  // either platform, so the screen needs two floors. The navigation-bar inset
+  // is the first: the Start action sits in a footer below the scroll body, and
+  // without the inset the footer would render in the navigation bar's region
+  // (a formSheet over this screen no longer leaves that region exposed below
+  // itself: the sheet is fixed at its shared options,
+  // `sheetShouldOverflowTopInset`). The keyboard height is the second: the
+  // composer auto-focuses on arrival, and with the keyboard up the scroll body
+  // is only ~1300 px tall while the form is ~2000 px, so a Start inside the
+  // scroll sits below the fold — the user had to dismiss the keyboard (a
+  // scroll drag with `keyboardDismissMode="on-drag"` did that for them) to
+  // reach the primary action. Start therefore lives in a footer *outside* the
+  // ScrollView. The keyboard-lift view is the app's cross-platform IME
+  // primitive (keyboardDidShow/DidHide on Android, keyboardWillShow/WillHide
+  // on iOS), so the same implementation runs on both platforms; the lift view
+  // wraps the footer alone, so the IME lifts the action and shrinks the scroll
+  // body instead of covering Start.
   // The ScrollView's keyboard-inset adjustment stays on for focused-field
   // scroll-into-view; it sizes against the scroll view's own frame, which
-  // already ends above the IME, so the two never stack into a double lift.
+  // already ends above the footer, so the two never stack into a double lift.
   // (The picker-sheet sliver of the e1 spot check is fixed at the sheet
   // triggers: a formSheet anchors over the keyboard that is up at its first
   // layout and never re-anchors, so the keyboard must be dismissed before
   // the sheet opens.)
-  const { bottom } = useSafeAreaInsets();
   const isRemote = runOnInstance !== null;
   // The frame this form scrolls in: the height left once the navigation-bar
   // inset and the keyboard-lift padding are taken out. `NewSessionPrompt`
@@ -261,48 +273,46 @@ export function NewSessionConfigureForm({
     </ScrollView>
   );
 
-  return (
-    // The root reserves the navigation-bar inset, so the keyboard-lift view
-    // pads from its own bottom edge and must not add the inset again.
-    <View className="flex-1 bg-background" style={{ paddingBottom: bottom }}>
-      <AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView className="flex-1" containerReservesBottomInset>
-        {body}
-        {/*
-          The primary action is pinned below the scroll body, never part of it.
-          A Start button inside the form scrolled out of the viewport on a short
-          screen: only the top of the control stayed visible above the
-          navigation bar, which read as a button the bottom bar had cut off.
-          As the keyboard-lift view's second child the footer is always on
-          screen, clear of the navigation bar, and lifted above the IME.
-        */}
-        <View className="px-4 pb-4">
-          {/*
-            Persistent failure feedback for the cloud create, in the reserved
-            spot above Start. A retryable rejection carries the retry control;
-            a terminal one says what the server reported instead. It rides with
-            the action it answers, so the feedback is on screen wherever the
-            body is scrolled. The form owns this feedback, so the creator hook
-            stays silent for it. Cloud-only: the route also clears the failure
-            when the target changes, and this gate keeps a stale one off a
-            remote target no matter which path selected it.
-          */}
-          {cloudCreateError && !isRemote ? (
-            <NewSessionCloudCreateError
-              failure={cloudCreateError}
-              onRetry={onRetryCloudCreate}
-              isRetryDisabled={isStartDisabled}
-            />
-          ) : null}
+  // Persistent failure feedback for the cloud create, in the reserved spot
+  // directly above Start. A retryable rejection carries the retry control; a
+  // terminal one says what the server reported instead. The form owns this
+  // feedback, so the creator hook stays silent for it. It rides the pinned
+  // footer with Start so the recovery control is visible with the keyboard up
+  // too. Cloud-only: the route also clears the failure when the target
+  // changes, and this gate keeps a stale one off a remote target no matter
+  // which path selected it.
+  const footer = (
+    <View className="bg-background px-4 pt-3" style={{ paddingBottom: bottomClearance }}>
+      {cloudCreateError && !isRemote ? (
+        <NewSessionCloudCreateError
+          failure={cloudCreateError}
+          onRetry={onRetryCloudCreate}
+          isRetryDisabled={isStartDisabled}
+        />
+      ) : null}
 
-          <NewSessionStartButton
-            isCloneEntry={isCloneEntry}
-            isRemote={isRemote}
-            isStartDisabled={isStartDisabled}
-            isStarting={isStarting}
-            onStartSession={onStartSession}
-          />
-        </View>
-      </AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView>
+      <NewSessionStartButton
+        isCloneEntry={isCloneEntry}
+        isRemote={isRemote}
+        isStartDisabled={isStartDisabled}
+        isStarting={isStarting}
+        onStartSession={onStartSession}
+      />
+    </View>
+  );
+
+  // The primary action is pinned below the scroll body, never part of it: a
+  // Start inside the form scrolled below the fold on a short screen, so only
+  // the top of the control stayed visible above the navigation bar. The lift
+  // view wraps the footer alone, so the IME shrinks the body instead of
+  // covering the action, and Start stays on screen above the navigation bar.
+  // The footer's own padding already reserves the bottom inset
+  // (`bottomClearance`), so `contentReservesBottomInset` keeps the
+  // screen-bottom-anchored occlusion from counting that inset a second time.
+  return (
+    <View className="flex-1 bg-background">
+      {body}
+      <AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView contentReservesBottomInset>{footer}</AppAwareKeyboardPaddingView>
     </View>
   );
 }
diff --git a/apps/mobile/src/components/ui/segmented-control.tsx b/apps/mobile/src/components/ui/segmented-control.tsx
index 16b1b7ec1e..843052c6d5 100644
--- a/apps/mobile/src/components/ui/segmented-control.tsx
+++ b/apps/mobile/src/components/ui/segmented-control.tsx
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ export function SegmentedControl<T extends string>({
                 selected ? 'font-medium text-foreground' : 'text-muted-foreground'
               )}
               // One line per option: a wrapped label makes the two choices
-              // uneven. Longer locales ellipsize instead of growing a second
+              // uneven. Longer locales shrink to fit instead of growing a second
               // line; the radio's accessibilityLabel still carries the full text.
             >
               {option.label}