diff --git a/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-native-chat-turn-status.ts b/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-native-chat-turn-status.ts
index 319c11f3dd5..f11b77ff173 100644
--- a/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-native-chat-turn-status.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-native-chat-turn-status.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react'
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 import type { NativeChatMessage } from '../../../src/shared/native-chat-types'
 import {
   nativeChatTurnHasResponse,
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ export function useMobileNativeChatTurnStatus({
   const latestUserId = latestUserIndex !== -1 ? (messages[latestUserIndex]?.id ?? null) : null
   const activeTurnKey = latestUserId ?? MOBILE_UNANCHORED_TURN_KEY
   const [timingByTurn, setTimingByTurn] = useState<NativeChatTurnTimingByTurn>({})
+  // An accepted send renders as `pending-N` until the transcript echo lands under
+  // its real id. That is one turn under two keys, so the clock must survive the swap.
+  const previousActiveTurnKey = useRef<string | undefined>(undefined)
 
   useEffect(() => {
     const validTurnKeys = new Set(
@@ -40,12 +43,14 @@ export function useMobileNativeChatTurnStatus({
     setTimingByTurn((current) =>
       reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(current, {
         activeTurnKey,
+        previousActiveTurnKey: previousActiveTurnKey.current,
         validTurnKeys,
         isWorking,
         workingStartedAt,
         now: Date.now()
       })
     )
+    previousActiveTurnKey.current = activeTurnKey
   }, [activeTurnKey, isWorking, messages, workingStartedAt])
 
   // Why: the selection rebuilds its status objects on every call, and a streaming
diff --git a/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.test.ts b/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.test.ts
index b3010b96d81..e83a586e0c2 100644
--- a/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.test.ts
@@ -186,6 +186,62 @@ describe('reduceNativeChatTurnTiming', () => {
     ).toEqual({})
   })
 
+  it('carries the elapsed start across an optimistic echo becoming a transcript row', () => {
+    // The mobile composer renders an accepted send as `pending-N` until the
+    // transcript echo lands under its real id. Without the carry-over the active
+    // turn key flips mid-turn and "Working for 8s" restarts at 0s.
+    const working = reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(
+      {},
+      {
+        activeTurnKey: 'pending-1',
+        validTurnKeys: new Set<string>(),
+        isWorking: true,
+        now: 1_000
+      }
+    )
+    expect(working['pending-1']?.startedAt).toBe(1_000)
+    const swapped = reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(working, {
+      activeTurnKey: 'u9',
+      previousActiveTurnKey: 'pending-1',
+      validTurnKeys: new Set(['u9']),
+      isWorking: true,
+      now: 9_000
+    })
+    expect(swapped.u9).toEqual({ startedAt: 1_000, workedSeconds: null })
+    expect(swapped['pending-1']).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+
+  it('does not carry the start into a genuinely new turn', () => {
+    // The previous turn is still in the transcript, so this is the user sending
+    // again — that turn starts its own clock.
+    const working = reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(
+      {},
+      { activeTurnKey: 'u1', validTurnKeys: new Set(['u1']), isWorking: true, now: 1_000 }
+    )
+    const next = reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(working, {
+      activeTurnKey: 'u2',
+      previousActiveTurnKey: 'u1',
+      validTurnKeys: new Set(['u1', 'u2']),
+      isWorking: true,
+      now: 9_000
+    })
+    expect(next.u2?.startedAt).toBe(9_000)
+  })
+
+  it('does not carry a start from a turn that had already settled', () => {
+    const settled: NativeChatTurnTimingByTurn = {
+      'pending-1': { startedAt: 1_000, workedSeconds: 5 }
+    }
+    const next = reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(settled, {
+      activeTurnKey: 'u9',
+      previousActiveTurnKey: 'pending-1',
+      validTurnKeys: new Set(['u9']),
+      isWorking: true,
+      now: 9_000
+    })
+    expect(next.u9?.startedAt).toBe(9_000)
+  })
+
   it('drops timings for turns that left the transcript, keeping the active one', () => {
     const current: NativeChatTurnTimingByTurn = {
       gone: { startedAt: 1, workedSeconds: 2 },
diff --git a/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.ts b/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.ts
index 4dd898bd23f..6d499060225 100644
--- a/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.ts
+++ b/src/shared/native-chat-turn-status.ts
@@ -99,18 +99,32 @@ export function reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(
   current: NativeChatTurnTimingByTurn,
   {
     activeTurnKey,
+    previousActiveTurnKey,
     validTurnKeys,
     isWorking,
     workingStartedAt,
     now
   }: {
     activeTurnKey: string
+    /** The key this turn had on the previous pass. When it names a turn that has
+     *  since left the transcript, the two are the same turn under two ids — an
+     *  optimistic echo that the transcript replaced — so the clock carries over
+     *  instead of restarting. Omit it to keep the plain restart behavior. */
+    previousActiveTurnKey?: string
     validTurnKeys: ReadonlySet<string>
     isWorking: boolean
     workingStartedAt?: number | null
     now: number
   }
 ): NativeChatTurnTimingByTurn {
+  const replacedTiming =
+    previousActiveTurnKey !== undefined &&
+    previousActiveTurnKey !== activeTurnKey &&
+    !validTurnKeys.has(previousActiveTurnKey)
+      ? current[previousActiveTurnKey]
+      : undefined
+  const carriedStartedAt =
+    replacedTiming?.workedSeconds == null ? replacedTiming?.startedAt : undefined
   let retained = current
   for (const turnKey of Object.keys(current)) {
     if (turnKey !== activeTurnKey && !validTurnKeys.has(turnKey)) {
@@ -126,7 +140,8 @@ export function reduceNativeChatTurnTiming(
     // An in-flight turn keeps the start it already had; only a fresh turn (or an
     // authoritative host timestamp) restamps it.
     const startedAt =
-      workingStartedAt ?? (timing && timing.workedSeconds == null ? timing.startedAt : now)
+      workingStartedAt ??
+      (timing && timing.workedSeconds == null ? timing.startedAt : (carriedStartedAt ?? now))
     if (timing?.startedAt === startedAt && timing.workedSeconds == null) {
       return retained
     }