diff --git a/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/Focus/KeyRouter+Context.swift b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/Focus/KeyRouter+Context.swift
index 0c3a4a19c942..6830f5b0aa87 100644
--- a/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/Focus/KeyRouter+Context.swift
+++ b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/Focus/KeyRouter+Context.swift
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ extension KeyRouter {
         var modelPage: PageWebView?
         if case .page(_, _) = controller.focus.state.resolved, let pane = controller.focus.state.resolved.pane,
            case .page(let view)? = controller.content?.paneController(key: pane)?.currentContent {
-            modelPage = view.content as? PageWebView
+            modelPage = PageWebView.shown(in: view.content)
         }
         return Self.keyPage(modelPage: modelPage, in: controller.window)
     }
diff --git a/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/InternalPages/InternalPageView.swift b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/InternalPages/InternalPageView.swift
index 94a4210bbeb5..6fc90bbcd2c5 100644
--- a/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/InternalPages/InternalPageView.swift
+++ b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/InternalPages/InternalPageView.swift
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ final class InternalPageView: NSView {
     /// or the view a native page names (``InternalPageFocusing``).
     var focusTarget: NSView {
         if let input = (content as? any PrimaryInputTarget)?.primaryInputView { return input }
-        if let page = content as? PageWebView { return page.focusView }
+        if let page = PageWebView.shown(in: content) { return page.focusView }
         return (content as? any InternalPageFocusing)?.focusTarget ?? content
     }
 
diff --git a/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/TabContent.swift b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/TabContent.swift
index 3e83dac61dd2..25306555db55 100644
--- a/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/TabContent.swift
+++ b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Sources/CmuxNextApp/TabContent.swift
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ enum TabContent {
     @MainActor var inputReadiness: PageInputReadiness? {
         switch self {
         case .agent(let view): view.inputReadiness
-        case .page(let view): (view.content as? PageWebView)?.inputReadiness
+        case .page(let view): (view.content as? PageWebView)?.inputReadiness // not a container's page: docked Channels focuses no input, a hold ate j/k/r (#33869)
         default: nil
         }
     }
diff --git a/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Tests/CmuxNextAppTests/HomeDockChannelsPageReadersTests.swift b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Tests/CmuxNextAppTests/HomeDockChannelsPageReadersTests.swift
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..775efd98523c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Packages/macOS/CmuxNext/Tests/CmuxNextAppTests/HomeDockChannelsPageReadersTests.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import AppKit
+import CmuxNextPages
+import Testing
+@testable import CmuxNextApp
+
+/// Follow-up of #29386 (review note 3): the docked Home's Channels page is a page INSIDE the dock's view
+/// (`HomeDockView`, a ``PageWebViewContainer``), not the tab's content itself. #29386 taught
+/// `TabContent.childWindowTab` to find it through ``PageWebView/shown(in:)``; the key router's focused page
+/// and the tab's focus target still looked for `content as? PageWebView` only, so for Channels the focus
+/// target was the dock view (it takes no keys), not the page. Those readers must find the page a container
+/// shows, by the same rule. The type-ahead must not (see its test).
+@MainActor
+struct HomeDockChannelsPageReadersTests {
+    /// A container like the docked Home in Channels mode: it shows a page inside its own view.
+    final class Dock: NSView, PageWebViewContainer {
+        var page: PageWebView?
+        var shownPageView: PageWebView? { page }
+    }
+
+    private func dockShowingPage() throws -> (InternalPageView, PageWebView) {
+        let page = try #require(PageWebView(descriptor: PageDescriptor(id: "test.dock-readers", resource: "files", namespaces: []), routes: []))
+        let dock = Dock(frame: NSRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 300))
+        dock.page = page
+        dock.addSubview(page)
+        return (InternalPageView(key: "tab_dock", page: .homeDock, content: dock), page)
+    }
+
+    /// Review of #33869 (FIX at 181170d6294): the Channels page focuses no input when it opens, so its readiness stays
+    /// not ready until the person focuses a field. A type-ahead hold on it held and then dropped the page's own bare keys
+    /// (j, k, r, t, c, e). The type-ahead must not read a page that a container shows.
+    @Test func theTypeAheadDoesNotHoldKeysForThePageTheDockShows() throws {
+        let (view, _) = try dockShowingPage()
+        #expect(TabContent.page(view).inputReadiness == nil, "the type-ahead would hold Channels' own bare keys")
+    }
+
+    @Test func theTabsFocusTargetIsThePageTheDockShows() throws {
+        let (view, page) = try dockShowingPage()
+        #expect(view.focusTarget === page.focusView, "the tab's focus target is the dock view, not the Channels page")
+    }
+
+    @Test func aPageTabIsStillItsOwnPage() throws {
+        let page = try #require(PageWebView(descriptor: PageDescriptor(id: "test.dock-readers-own", resource: "files", namespaces: []), routes: []))
+        let view = InternalPageView(key: "tab_page", page: .homeTab, content: page)
+        #expect(TabContent.page(view).inputReadiness === page.inputReadiness)
+        #expect(view.focusTarget === page.focusView)
+    }
+}