diff --git a/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/grid-view.js b/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/grid-view.js
index 69f342ca..84846e00 100644
--- a/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/grid-view.js
+++ b/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/grid-view.js
@@ -564,34 +564,51 @@ class GridViewManager {
   }
 
   setupGridResizeHandler() {
-    let resizeTimeout;
-
+    // The timers live on the instance, not in this closure: a rebuild calls
+    // this again, and the new handler has to be able to cancel checks the
+    // previous one left pending.
     const handleResize = async () => {
-      clearTimeout(resizeTimeout);
-      resizeTimeout = setTimeout(async () => {
-        if (!state.gridViewActive) {
-          return;
-        }
+      clearTimeout(this.resizeTimeout);
+      clearTimeout(this.resizeRecheckTimeout);
+      // Chrome on iOS fires resize before a rotation's new dimensions are in
+      // place, and the rotation can still be animating 300ms later. Check the
+      // geometry once more after it has certainly settled; when it has not
+      // changed since the first check this does nothing.
+      this.resizeRecheckTimeout = setTimeout(() => checkGeometry(), 1500);
+      this.resizeTimeout = setTimeout(() => checkGeometry(), 300);
+    };
 
-        const newGeometry = this.calculateGridGeometry();
-
-        if (this.gridGeometryChanged(newGeometry)) {
-          // New instance first, then the reset — the order the thumbnail-size
-          // handler uses. The other way round, the reset built the pages at the
-          // old geometry and scrolled past the page it prepends; the instance
-          // created afterwards then started at slide 0, which is that
-          // previous page, and — since creating it forgets which images are
-          // loaded but keeps their slides — the batch loads that followed
-          // appended a second copy of every tile. Visible on every resize that
-          // changes the grid's shape, including entering and leaving
-          // fullscreen, as the grid coming back one page early.
-          this.initializeGridSwiper();
-          await this.resetAllSlides();
-        }
-      }, 300);
+    const checkGeometry = async () => {
+      // Still hidden while the grid fades in: the container measures zero
+      // wide, and showing it re-measures anyway.
+      if (!state.gridViewActive || !this.isVisible()) {
+        return;
+      }
+
+      const newGeometry = this.calculateGridGeometry();
+
+      if (this.gridGeometryChanged(newGeometry)) {
+        // New instance first, then the reset — the order the thumbnail-size
+        // handler uses. The other way round, the reset built the pages at the
+        // old geometry and scrolled past the page it prepends; the instance
+        // created afterwards then started at slide 0, which is that
+        // previous page, and — since creating it forgets which images are
+        // loaded but keeps their slides — the batch loads that followed
+        // appended a second copy of every tile. Visible on every resize that
+        // changes the grid's shape, including entering and leaving
+        // fullscreen, as the grid coming back one page early.
+        this.initializeGridSwiper();
+        await this.resetAllSlides();
+      }
     };
 
     this.addEventListener(window, "resize", handleResize);
+    // Flips when layout actually adopts the new orientation — on Chrome for
+    // iOS that can come after the resize event carried stale dimensions.
+    const orientationQuery = window.matchMedia?.("(orientation: portrait)");
+    if (orientationQuery?.addEventListener) {
+      this.addEventListener(orientationQuery, "change", handleResize);
+    }
   }
 
   updateCurrentSlideHighlight(globalIndex = null) {
diff --git a/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js b/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js
index 446b1c6f..f6c4e07a 100644
--- a/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js
+++ b/photomap/frontend/static/javascript/panel-anchor.js
@@ -24,10 +24,15 @@
 // than this, so nothing real is filtered out.
 const MIN_OVERSHOOT_PX = 24;
 
-// A resample after the viewport has had time to settle. The iPadOS fullscreen
+// Resamples after the viewport has had time to settle. The iPadOS fullscreen
 // exit is animated, so a sample taken mid-transition can be wrong, and the
-// event that would correct it may already have fired.
-const SETTLE_DELAY_MS = 300;
+// event that would correct it may already have fired. Rotation is worse:
+// Chrome on iOS fires resize/orientationchange before the new dimensions are
+// in place, and the rotation animation can outlast a single short resample,
+// leaving --visible-viewport-height pinned at the old orientation's height
+// with nothing left to correct it. A few spaced samples cover the slow case;
+// each is a cheap no-op once the geometry has settled.
+const SETTLE_DELAYS_MS = [150, 400, 800, 1500];
 
 // How long after a text field blurs the correction stays held. On iPad the
 // blur arrives while the software keyboard is still fully on screen — hiding
@@ -39,16 +44,45 @@ const SETTLE_DELAY_MS = 300;
 const KEYBOARD_COLLAPSE_MS = 700;
 
 let anchored = [];
-let settleTimer = null;
+let settleTimers = [];
 let keyboardSettling = false;
 let keyboardCollapseTimer = null;
 
-/** Can focusing this element summon the software keyboard? */
+// <input> types that do not summon the software keyboard. A focused checkbox,
+// radio, range or button must not hold the correction: nothing ever moves
+// focus off it again, so the hold would outlive every later rotation.
+const NON_TEXT_INPUT_TYPES = new Set([
+  "button",
+  "checkbox",
+  "color",
+  "file",
+  "hidden",
+  "image",
+  "radio",
+  "range",
+  "reset",
+  "submit",
+]);
+
+/** Is this a form control that can hold focus? */
+function isFormControl(element) {
+  return Boolean(element) && (element.isContentEditable || ["INPUT", "TEXTAREA", "SELECT"].includes(element.tagName));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Can focusing this element summon the software keyboard?
+ *
+ * <select> stays in: on iPhone its option picker can take the keyboard's
+ * place and shrink the visual viewport just as the keyboard does.
+ */
 function isTextEntry(element) {
-  if (!element) {
+  if (!isFormControl(element)) {
     return false;
   }
-  return element.isContentEditable || ["INPUT", "TEXTAREA", "SELECT"].includes(element.tagName);
+  if (element.tagName !== "INPUT") {
+    return true;
+  }
+  return !NON_TEXT_INPUT_TYPES.has((element.type || "text").toLowerCase());
 }
 
 /** Is this element actually laid out, rather than inside a display: none subtree? */
@@ -79,15 +113,18 @@ function isRendered(element) {
  */
 function isTextEntryFocused() {
   const element = document.activeElement;
-  if (!isTextEntry(element)) {
+  if (!isFormControl(element)) {
     return false;
   }
+  // Any hidden control is blurred, not only text fields: events.js ignores
+  // shortcuts while an INPUT or SELECT has focus, so a checkbox or select
+  // left focused inside a closed dialog would otherwise keep them dead.
   if (!isRendered(element)) {
     noteTextEntryBlur(element);
     element.blur();
     return false;
   }
-  return true;
+  return isTextEntry(element);
 }
 
 /** Keep the correction held across the keyboard's hide animation. */
@@ -195,11 +232,11 @@ export function syncPanelAnchor() {
   }
 }
 
-/** Resync once more after the viewport has settled, coalescing repeat calls. */
+/** Resync now and again as the viewport settles, coalescing repeat calls. */
 function scheduleSettleResync() {
   syncPanelAnchor();
-  clearTimeout(settleTimer);
-  settleTimer = setTimeout(syncPanelAnchor, SETTLE_DELAY_MS);
+  settleTimers.forEach(clearTimeout);
+  settleTimers = SETTLE_DELAYS_MS.map((delay) => setTimeout(syncPanelAnchor, delay));
 }
 
 /**
@@ -214,6 +251,10 @@ export function initializePanelAnchor(panels) {
 
   window.addEventListener("resize", scheduleSettleResync);
   window.addEventListener("orientationchange", scheduleSettleResync);
+  // The orientation media query flips when layout actually adopts the new
+  // orientation, which on Chrome for iOS can be well after the resize and
+  // orientationchange events above have fired with stale dimensions.
+  window.matchMedia?.("(orientation: portrait)")?.addEventListener?.("change", scheduleSettleResync);
   if (window.visualViewport) {
     // The visible area shrinking is the signal that fires most reliably on the
     // platform this exists for: the layout viewport does not change on a
diff --git a/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js b/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js
index e6eee855..4988ca7e 100644
--- a/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js
+++ b/tests/frontend/panel-anchor.test.js
@@ -268,6 +268,86 @@ describe("resampling after the viewport settles", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("rotation on Chrome for iOS", () => {
+  // Chrome on iOS fires resize/orientationchange before the rotated
+  // dimensions are in place, and the rotation animation can outlast a single
+  // short resample. The published height then stayed at the old
+  // orientation's value with no later event to correct it.
+  const heightVar = () => document.documentElement.style.getPropertyValue("--visible-viewport-height");
+
+  it("still converges when the new dimensions arrive after the first resample", () => {
+    jest.useFakeTimers();
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 870 });
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("870px");
+
+    // Event fires with the portrait geometry still in place...
+    window.dispatchEvent(new Event("orientationchange"));
+    jest.advanceTimersByTime(400);
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("870px");
+
+    // ...and landscape only lands later, with no further event.
+    setLayoutViewportHeight(768);
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 700 });
+    jest.advanceTimersByTime(2000);
+
+    expect(heightVar()).toBe("700px");
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-68px)");
+    jest.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it("resyncs when the orientation media query flips", () => {
+    const mediaListeners = [];
+    window.matchMedia = () => ({ addEventListener: (_name, fn) => mediaListeners.push(fn) });
+    try {
+      initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+      setVisualViewport({ height: 700 });
+
+      mediaListeners.forEach((fn) => fn());
+
+      expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-300px)");
+    } finally {
+      delete window.matchMedia;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("blurs a focused <select> once it is hidden, so shortcuts are not left dead", () => {
+    document.body.insertAdjacentHTML(
+      "beforeend",
+      `<div id="dlg"><select id="albumSelect"><option>a</option></select></div>`
+    );
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("albumSelect").focus();
+
+    document.getElementById("dlg").style.display = "none";
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+
+    expect(document.activeElement).not.toBe(document.getElementById("albumSelect"));
+  });
+
+  it.each(["checkbox", "radio", "range", "button"])("is not held by a focused %s input", (type) => {
+    document.body.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", `<input id="control" type="${type}" />`);
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("control").focus();
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 700 });
+    window.dispatchEvent(new Event("orientationchange"));
+
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-300px)");
+  });
+
+  it("is still held by a focused search-type text field", () => {
+    document.body.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", `<input id="query" type="search" />`);
+    initializePanelAnchor([panel()]);
+    document.getElementById("query").focus();
+
+    setVisualViewport({ height: 620 });
+    syncPanelAnchor();
+
+    expect(panel().style.transform).toBe("");
+  });
+});
+
 describe("the --visible-viewport-height custom property", () => {
   // The swiper container and slide images are sized with 100dvh, which
   // resolves against the same stranded layout viewport as the panels: after a