diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0f2e2cf..6051161 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@isimplifyme/ui",
-  "version": "1.4.1",
+  "version": "1.4.2",
   "description": "React/Next.js UI library for iSimplifyMe properties \u2014 design system, article layouts, SEO helpers, bot middleware, and the iSM Concierge widget.",
   "homepage": "https://isimplifyme.com",
   "type": "module",
diff --git a/src/concierge.test.tsx b/src/concierge.test.tsx
index bd7cf0c..5a8d77d 100644
--- a/src/concierge.test.tsx
+++ b/src/concierge.test.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ import { createRoot, type Root } from 'react-dom/client';
 import { act } from 'react';
 import ConciergeWidget from './concierge';
 
+/** Flips the stubbed matchMedia so a test can render at phone width. */
+const NARROW = { value: false };
+
 let container: HTMLDivElement;
 let root: Root;
 
@@ -18,11 +21,12 @@ let root: Root;
 // network, so a stub keeps the render deterministic — a real fetch would make
 // these tests flaky for reasons that have nothing to do with the slot.
 beforeEach(() => {
+  NARROW.value = false;
   // jsdom ships no matchMedia; the widget reads it to decide the mobile
   // footer collision. Reporting "no match" gives the desktop bar, which is
   // the layout these assertions are about.
   vi.stubGlobal('matchMedia', (query: string) => ({
-    matches: false,
+    matches: NARROW.value && query.includes('max-width'),
     media: query,
     addEventListener() {},
     removeEventListener() {},
@@ -151,3 +155,33 @@ describe('auto theme — the colour parsing these refactors touched', () => {
     expect(bg).not.toBe('');
   });
 });
+
+describe('the keyboard-shortcut chip', () => {
+  const chipText = (root: HTMLElement) =>
+    [...root.querySelectorAll('span')].map((el) => el.textContent ?? '').join('|');
+
+  it('shows on a wide viewport', () => {
+    const { bar } = render();
+    expect(chipText(bar)).toMatch(/K$/);
+  });
+
+  it('is hidden below 768px — it costs ~55px of the input for a key no phone has', () => {
+    NARROW.value = true;
+    const { bar } = render();
+    expect(chipText(bar)).not.toMatch(/K$/);
+  });
+
+  it('gives the freed width back to the input', () => {
+    // The point of the guard, stated as the property that matters: the same
+    // bar yields a wider text field once the chip is gone.
+    const wide = render().bar.querySelectorAll('span').length;
+    act(() => root.unmount());
+    container.remove();
+    container = document.createElement('div');
+    document.body.appendChild(container);
+    root = createRoot(container);
+    NARROW.value = true;
+    const narrow = render().bar.querySelectorAll('span').length;
+    expect(narrow).toBeLessThan(wide);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/concierge.tsx b/src/concierge.tsx
index 0521e05..479cabf 100644
--- a/src/concierge.tsx
+++ b/src/concierge.tsx
@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ export default function ConciergeWidget({
   const [isFocused, setIsFocused] = useState(false);
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [isMac, setIsMac] = useState(true);
+  // Narrow viewports get no keyboard shortcut chip. Starts false so the
+  // server render and the first client paint agree; the effect below
+  // corrects it. (Deriving it inline from matchMedia would hydrate-mismatch,
+  // which is why isMac is shaped this way too.)
+  const [isNarrow, setIsNarrow] = useState(false);
 
   // Lead form state — fires on session 3-turn cap OR tenant cap OR
   // immediately when the server signals `hv_matched`. Persists until
@@ -270,6 +275,13 @@ export default function ConciergeWidget({
 
   useEffect(() => {
     setIsMac(navigator.platform?.toUpperCase().includes('MAC') ?? true);
+
+    // Same breakpoint the footer-collision check uses, kept in sync with it.
+    const mq = window.matchMedia('(max-width: 767px)');
+    const sync = () => setIsNarrow(mq.matches);
+    sync();
+    mq.addEventListener('change', sync);
+    return () => mq.removeEventListener('change', sync);
   }, []);
 
   // ── Chameleon theme detection — two-pass (data-theme + luminance) ──
@@ -660,7 +672,13 @@ export default function ConciergeWidget({
     useHvEarly, useElaborated, hvForm, leadForm, requireAddress, showTranscriptCheckbox,
   ]);
 
-  const showShortcut = !isFocused && !input && !isLoading;
+  // ⚡ Not decoration: the chip costs ~55px of the input's visible width, and
+  // on a phone it buys nothing — there is no keyboard to press it with, and
+  // `isMac` reads navigator.platform, so a touch device can render the wrong
+  // modifier for a shortcut it cannot use either way. On a 390px screen that
+  // 55px is the difference between a placeholder that reads and one that
+  // clips mid-word.
+  const showShortcut = !isFocused && !input && !isLoading && !isNarrow;
 
   // ── Theme tokens ──
   // Light-mode bar + panel opacities intentionally kept low (<=0.75) so