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 bc0582ca9fe..54e87d693bf 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
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
   clearQueuedInitialCwdAfterFirstPane,
   getPreviousVisibleForTerminalPane,
   isTerminalPaneVisibilityResume,
+  isTouchIOSUserAgent,
   mapRestoredPaneTitlesByPaneId,
   resolvePaneLinkCwd,
   resolvePaneSeedCwd,
@@ -549,3 +550,33 @@ describe('terminal pane visibility resume tracking', () => {
     expect(isTerminalPaneVisibilityResume({ previousIsVisible: false, isVisible: true })).toBe(true)
   })
 })
+
+describe('isTouchIOSUserAgent', () => {
+  it('is false for a real Mac (Macintosh UA, no touch points)', () => {
+    expect(
+      isTouchIOSUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15', 0)
+    ).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('is true for iPadOS desktop-mode Safari (Macintosh UA plus touch points)', () => {
+    expect(
+      isTouchIOSUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15', 5)
+    ).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('is true for iPhone Safari ("like Mac OS X" UA plus touch points)', () => {
+    expect(
+      isTouchIOSUserAgent(
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15',
+        5
+      )
+    ).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('is false for non-Mac UAs regardless of touch points', () => {
+    expect(isTouchIOSUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36', 5)).toBe(false)
+    expect(
+      isTouchIOSUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36', 5)
+    ).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 bf937b28d36..41ff4202534 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
@@ -451,6 +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. */
+export function isTouchIOSUserAgent(userAgent: string, maxTouchPoints: number): boolean {
+  return userAgent.includes('Mac') && maxTouchPoints > 0
+}
+
 type SplitStartupPayload = { command: string; env?: Record<string, string> }
 
 type SplitWithStartupDeps = {
@@ -995,6 +1000,8 @@ export function useTerminalPaneLifecycle({
           !isMac &&
           navigator.userAgent.includes('Linux') &&
           !/Android|CrOS/.test(navigator.userAgent)
+        // Why: gates the forwarder only — isMac stays as-is for the Ctrl+C, clipboard, JIS-yen and 229 policies.
+        const isTouchIOS = isTouchIOSUserAgent(navigator.userAgent, navigator.maxTouchPoints)
         const linuxImeCandidateState = isLinux
           ? installTerminalImeLinuxCandidateState(pane.terminal.element)
           : null
@@ -1006,18 +1013,20 @@ export function useTerminalPaneLifecycle({
           }
         })
         // Why: macOS commits an input source's substituted text through the input event alone, so printable keydowns must not reach xterm's encoder.
-        const imeNativeTextForwarder = isMac
-          ? installTerminalImeNativeTextForwarder({
-              terminalElement: pane.terminal.element,
-              isComposing: () => imeCompositionTracker.isActive(),
-              sendInput: (data) => pane.terminal.input(data),
-              getKittyKeyboardFlags: () =>
-                paneKittyKeyboardModesRef.current.get(pane.id)?.flags ?? 0
-            })
-          : {
-              claimKeyEvent: () => false,
-              dispose: () => undefined
-            }
+        // Not on touch iOS/iPadOS: the forwarder stands aside for IME input via composition events, which iPad Hangul appears not to fire (#13345).
+        const imeNativeTextForwarder =
+          isMac && !isTouchIOS
+            ? installTerminalImeNativeTextForwarder({
+                terminalElement: pane.terminal.element,
+                isComposing: () => imeCompositionTracker.isActive(),
+                sendInput: (data) => pane.terminal.input(data),
+                getKittyKeyboardFlags: () =>
+                  paneKittyKeyboardModesRef.current.get(pane.id)?.flags ?? 0
+              })
+            : {
+                claimKeyEvent: () => false,
+                dispose: () => undefined
+              }
         imeNativeTextForwarderDisposablesRef.current.set(pane.id, imeNativeTextForwarder)
         pane.terminal.attachCustomKeyEventHandler((e) => {
           const linuxCandidateClassification = linuxImeCandidateState?.classifyKeyboardEvent(e) ?? {