diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift
index b592fd2..9bd57b2 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/RemoteStore.swift
@@ -395,6 +395,50 @@ final class RemoteStore: ObservableObject {
         #endif
     }
 
+    /// Handle the host's silent "adopt" wake (UX_IOS §5.3): a session started while the app was
+    /// closed, the host push-*started* the Live Activity, and now the phone must come online long
+    /// enough to harvest that activity's per-activity update token and register it — so live updates
+    /// (and a clean end) resume without the user ever opening the app. Called from `PushAppDelegate`
+    /// on a `content-available` background push, which may relaunch the app with no scene, so this
+    /// does the setup `onAppear` normally would. Holds a background-task assertion until the token is
+    /// registered with a host or the window closes, then calls `completion`. Best-effort: iOS may
+    /// deny background runtime (budget, force-quit), in which case the glance keeps its start-time
+    /// state until the app next runs.
+    func handleLiveActivityAdoptWake(completion: @escaping () -> Void) {
+        guard !demoMode, isPaired else { completion(); return }
+        setupLiveActivityBridge()   // starts the push-to-start + adoption observers if not already
+        startNetworkingIfNeeded()
+        #if canImport(UIKit)
+        var bgTask: UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier = .invalid
+        var finished = false
+        let finish = {
+            guard !finished else { return }
+            finished = true
+            if bgTask != .invalid {
+                UIApplication.shared.endBackgroundTask(bgTask)
+                bgTask = .invalid
+            }
+            completion()
+        }
+        bgTask = UIApplication.shared.beginBackgroundTask(withName: "nucleic.liveactivity.adopt") {
+            finish()   // the OS reclaimed the grant before we finished — report what we have
+        }
+        #else
+        let finish = completion
+        #endif
+        pathMonitor.refresh()
+        reconnect()
+        // Poll until the harvested update token has reached a host (`liveActivitySentTo` fills in via
+        // the adopt → onPushToken → syncLiveActivityRegistration chain), or we run out of runtime.
+        Task { @MainActor [weak self] in
+            for _ in 0..<50 {   // ~25s at a 0.5s cadence, inside iOS's ~30s background grant
+                guard let self, self.liveActivitySentTo.isEmpty else { break }
+                try? await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(500))
+            }
+            finish()
+        }
+    }
+
     private func seedDemo() {
         connectivity = .connected(.lan)
         hostName = "Andrew's Mac"