diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts
index 7e0486523ef..ba9e4d89370 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ beforeEach(() => {
   vi.stubGlobal('window', {
     api: { pty: { hasPty: mocks.hasPty } }
   })
-  vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {})
+  vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {})
 })
 
 afterEach(() => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts
index 146dc82a6e2..b202e5c565c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ export async function requestTerminalPaneRecovery(request: RecoveryRequest): Pro
   cancelPendingRecoveryRetry(request.tabId)
   // warn, not error: this is the recovery succeeding, and the breadcrumb below is
   // what diagnostics actually read. STA-2373 made this path routine (every daemon
-  // death remounts each live pane), so error level just floods logs and telemetry.
+  // death remounts each live pane), so error level just floods the logs.
   console.warn(
     `[terminal] recovering pane tab ${request.tabId} — ${request.reason} with a live PTY (${request.ptyId ?? 'unbound'}); remounting to rebuild the renderer`
   )