diff --git a/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-delivery.test.ts b/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-delivery.test.ts
index 2dbc0f731f..9224a9f71a 100644
--- a/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-delivery.test.ts
+++ b/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-delivery.test.ts
@@ -731,6 +731,32 @@ describe('NotificationsService.refreshGlanceableSessions', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it('holds the push-to-start fence across a rotated push-to-start token', async () => {
+    const pem = await generateTestPrivateKeyPem();
+    const { createService, apns, activityRows } = setupService({
+      privateKey: async () => pem,
+      iosTokens: [{ token: 'scope-token', kind: 'ios_push_to_start' }],
+      response: () => Response.json(freshSnapshot({ running: 1 })),
+    });
+    await createService().refreshGlanceableSessions(personalRefresh);
+    expect(apns.map(({ token, aps }) => [token, aps.event])).toEqual([['scope-token', 'start']]);
+
+    // The device registers a new push-to-start token while the card the first
+    // one raised is still on screen and unadopted. The fence belongs to the
+    // scope, so the new token must not raise a second card beside it: a
+    // push-to-start carries the alert APNs requires, and that alert is what
+    // lights the screen and expands the card.
+    activityRows.delete('scope-token');
+    activityRows.set('rotated-token', {
+      id: 'row-rotated',
+      kind: 'ios_push_to_start',
+      updated_at: '2026-08-27 10:00:01+00',
+    });
+    vi.mocked(Date.now).mockReturnValue(Date.parse('2026-08-27T10:00:20.000Z'));
+    await createService().refreshGlanceableSessions(personalRefresh);
+    expect(apns.map(({ token, aps }) => [token, aps.event])).toEqual([['scope-token', 'start']]);
+  });
+
   it('retires a token APNs rejects with 410 on an update, not only on an end', async () => {
     const pem = await generateTestPrivateKeyPem();
     const { service, activityRows } = setupService({
diff --git a/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-refresh.ts b/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-refresh.ts
index 64bd33e88b..fa12579d91 100644
--- a/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-refresh.ts
+++ b/services/notifications/src/lib/glanceable-refresh.ts
@@ -336,7 +336,6 @@ export async function refreshGlanceableSnapshot(
         if (current.revision !== request.revision) return [];
         const withoutFencedStarts = await dropFencedStarts(tokens, storage, {
           prefix: iosStartPrefix,
-          key: iosStartKey,
         });
         // Empty work can retry ends. Eligible work excludes every accepted or uncertain end.
         if (!eligible) return withoutFencedStarts;
@@ -565,13 +564,20 @@ export async function foldPendingGlanceableRefreshDeadline(
  * fence has not lapsed is removed from the list, which leaves
  * `apnsSendsForTokens` with no start to send while that ambiguity stands.
  *
+ * The fence belongs to the scope, not to the token that wrote it. A card raised
+ * by push-to-start is still on screen while the device registers a fresh
+ * push-to-start token, and a start on that token would raise a second card
+ * beside it. APNs requires an `alert` on every push-to-start, and that alert is
+ * what lights the screen and expands the card, so while any fence in the scope
+ * is live every push-to-start token in it stays out of the list.
+ *
  * Every read also drops the lapsed fences, including those of tokens the device
  * has since rotated away and will never present again.
  */
 async function dropFencedStarts<T extends { token: string; kind: string; superseded?: boolean }>(
   tokens: readonly T[],
   storage: DurableObjectStorage,
-  fence: { prefix: string; key: (token: string) => string }
+  fence: { prefix: string }
 ): Promise<T[]> {
   const held = await storage.list<number>({ prefix: fence.prefix });
   // Only exactly one live (non-superseded) `ios_activity` row means the scope is
@@ -593,8 +599,6 @@ async function dropFencedStarts<T extends { token: string; kind: string; superse
   if (lapsed.length > 0) {
     await storage.delete(lapsed);
   }
-  return tokens.filter(({ token, kind }) => {
-    const until = held.get(fence.key(token));
-    return kind !== 'ios_push_to_start' || until === undefined || until <= now;
-  });
+  const scopeHeld = [...held].some(([, until]) => until > now);
+  return scopeHeld ? tokens.filter(({ kind }) => kind !== 'ios_push_to_start') : [...tokens];
 }