diff --git a/library/components/legends/LegendMobile.vue b/library/components/legends/LegendMobile.vue
index 279313d5e..056c90ffe 100644
--- a/library/components/legends/LegendMobile.vue
+++ b/library/components/legends/LegendMobile.vue
@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ useShadowStyles(`
    title rows, and the whole sheet while collapsed) tells the browser not to pan from there; the sheet's own
    touch handlers do the resizing, and a tap still reaches the caret. */
 .sheet-drag-strip,.legend-mobile-sheet.collapsed,.legend-mobile-sheet .stl-titlebar,.legend-mobile-sheet .lrg-title-row,.legend-mobile-sheet .collapsed-detail-footer{touch-action:none;}
+/* ★ A GRAB LIP ABOVE THE OPEN SHEET (mobile pass 2026-09-30, #9). A finger aimed at the open sheet's top edge often
+   landed just above it, on the hint pill (shown only while nothing is selected), and a drag there scrolled the
+   pane instead of resizing the sheet. This transparent 12px strip sits right above the sheet's top edge (it follows
+   --legend-sheet-h), above the pill, takes the pan (touch-action:none) and hands the gesture to the sheet's own
+   handlers, whose grab zone is measured from the sheet's top and so includes it. It is outside the sheet because
+   the sheet clips its children (overflow:hidden), and it exists only while the sheet is open. */
+.sheet-grab-lip{position:absolute;inset-inline:0;bottom:var(--legend-sheet-h,0px);height:12px;z-index:1001;touch-action:none;}
 .pull-tab-handle{width:40px;height:4px;background:#ccc;border-radius:2px;}
 
 /* Collapse caret — in-flow, injected via #title-caret slot into the title
@@ -879,7 +886,10 @@ function watchCredit(triesLeft) {
   if (!root || !root.querySelector) return
   const shown = root.querySelector('.maplibregl-ctrl-attrib.maplibregl-compact-show, .mapboxgl-ctrl-attrib.mapboxgl-compact-show')
   if (shown) {
-    _creditTimer = setTimeout(() => { _creditTimer = 0; if (uiStore.isMobile) shown.classList.remove('maplibregl-compact-show', 'mapboxgl-compact-show') }, CREDIT_FOLD_MS)
+    // The phone test is the breakpoint itself, the phone CSS block's own query: uiStore.isMobile is set only by
+    // uiStore.init(), which a host may never call (UPG-100's map does not), and then the fold never ran there.
+    const phone = typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.matchMedia && window.matchMedia('(max-width: 767.98px)').matches
+    _creditTimer = setTimeout(() => { _creditTimer = 0; if (phone) shown.classList.remove('maplibregl-compact-show', 'mapboxgl-compact-show') }, CREDIT_FOLD_MS)
     return
   }
   const credit = root.querySelector('.maplibregl-ctrl-attrib, .mapboxgl-ctrl-attrib')
@@ -911,6 +921,16 @@ onBeforeUnmount(() => { if (_creditTimer) { clearTimeout(_creditTimer); _creditT
       />
     </div>
 
+    <!-- The grab lip above the open sheet (see .sheet-grab-lip): the same handlers as the sheet. -->
+    <div
+      v-if="legendState !== 'collapsed'"
+      class="sheet-grab-lip"
+      aria-hidden="true"
+      @touchstart="onSheetTouchStart"
+      @touchmove="onSheetTouchMove"
+      @touchend="onSheetTouchEnd"
+      @touchcancel="onSheetTouchEnd"
+    ></div>
     <!-- Touch resize handlers sit on the SHEET: a drag may start anywhere in the
          top GRAB_ZONE_PX (strip + title row) — and, in detail mode, on the content
          when it can't scroll that way. See onSheetTouchStart for the model. -->