diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.test.ts
index 54e87d693bf..8e18ece6f2e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.test.ts
@@ -579,4 +579,10 @@ describe('isTouchIOSUserAgent', () => {
       isTouchIOSUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36', 5)
     ).toBe(false)
   })
+
+  it('keeps the forwarder on a Mac whose touch peripheral reports a single point', () => {
+    expect(
+      isTouchIOSUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15', 1)
+    ).toBe(false)
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.ts
index 41ff4202534..a61b9ad131f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/use-terminal-pane-lifecycle.ts
@@ -451,9 +451,11 @@ export function resolvePaneSeedCwd(splitPaneCwd: string | undefined, fallbackCwd
   return splitPaneCwd ?? fallbackCwd
 }
 
-/** iPadOS reports a desktop "Macintosh" UA and iOS reports "like Mac OS X" — maxTouchPoints is the only signal a real Mac never sets. */
+// Why > 1, matching isIOSWebView in mobile/src/terminal/terminal-webview-html.ts: a Mac with a
+// touch peripheral can report exactly 1, and it must keep the forwarder. Real iPads report 5.
+// Why UA rather than that helper's platform check: an iPhone reports platform "iPhone", not "MacIntel".
 export function isTouchIOSUserAgent(userAgent: string, maxTouchPoints: number): boolean {
-  return userAgent.includes('Mac') && maxTouchPoints > 0
+  return userAgent.includes('Mac') && maxTouchPoints > 1
 }
 
 type SplitStartupPayload = { command: string; env?: Record<string, string> }