diff --git a/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-session-state.ts b/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-session-state.ts
index bfc2dbd8d29..578f1721342 100644
--- a/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-session-state.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-session-state.ts
@@ -48,18 +48,14 @@ export function isCurrentMobileDictationStart(
   return currentGeneration === generation && enabled && activeId === dictationId
 }
 
+/** A finish is still this dictation's while nothing has superseded it: `cancel`, a disable, an
+ *  unmount and a newer start each bump the generation or clear the active id, and most do both. */
 export function isCurrentMobileDictationFinish(
   currentGeneration: number,
   generation: number,
   enabled: boolean,
   activeId: string | null,
-  finishingId: string | null,
   dictationId: string
 ): boolean {
-  return (
-    currentGeneration === generation &&
-    enabled &&
-    activeId === dictationId &&
-    finishingId === dictationId
-  )
+  return currentGeneration === generation && enabled && activeId === dictationId
 }
diff --git a/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-stop-tail.test.tsx b/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-stop-tail.test.tsx
index c92323a9688..c46a4b412c3 100644
--- a/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-stop-tail.test.tsx
+++ b/mobile/src/hooks/mobile-dictation-stop-tail.test.tsx
@@ -104,14 +104,26 @@ function audioOf(request: SentRequest): unknown {
     : null
 }
 
+/** Answers everything the hook has sent except one method, so a case can hold that reply open. */
+function settleExcept(rpc: FakeRpcClient, sent: SentRequest[], method: string): void {
+  for (const request of rpc.requests.splice(0)) {
+    sent.push(request)
+    if (request.method === method) {
+      rpc.requests.push(request)
+      continue
+    }
+    request.resolve({ id: 'desktop', ok: true, result: {} })
+  }
+}
+
 const held: { dictation: UseMobileDictationResult | null } = { dictation: null }
 
-function mount(client: FakeRpcClient): void {
+function mount(client: FakeRpcClient, onTranscript: (text: string) => void = () => {}): void {
   function Probe(): null {
     held.dictation = useMobileDictation({
       client,
       enabled: true,
-      onTranscript: () => {},
+      onTranscript,
       onError: () => {}
     })
     return null
@@ -191,3 +203,42 @@ describe('the audio a capture hands over as it ends', () => {
     )
   })
 })
+
+describe('a finish whose dictation stopped being the current one', () => {
+  it('delivers no transcript when a cancel lands while the finish is in flight', async () => {
+    // What `finishingIdRef` was thought to guard, pinned against the two things that actually do:
+    // `cancel` bumps the generation and clears the active id, and the finish is read against both
+    // before its text reaches the composer. A transcript that arrived here would be typed into a
+    // field the user has already dismissed the microphone from.
+    const rpc = createFakeRpcClient()
+    const sent: SentRequest[] = []
+    const transcripts: string[] = []
+    mount(rpc, (text) => transcripts.push(text))
+    await act(async () => {
+      const started = dictation().start()
+      await pump(rpc, sent)
+      await started
+    })
+    let stopped: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve()
+    await act(async () => {
+      stopped = dictation().stop()
+      // Everything but the finish, which stays in flight while the user cancels.
+      for (let round = 0; round < 4; round += 1) {
+        settleExcept(rpc, sent, 'speech.dictation.finish')
+        await Promise.resolve()
+        await Promise.resolve()
+      }
+    })
+    expect(sent.map((request) => request.method)).toContain('speech.dictation.finish')
+    await act(async () => {
+      // Started rather than awaited: the cancel's own request has to be answered by the pump below
+      // before it settles, and awaiting it first would deadlock the case rather than the product.
+      const cancelled = dictation().cancel()
+      await pump(rpc, sent)
+      await cancelled
+      await stopped
+    })
+    expect(transcripts).toEqual([])
+    expect(dictation().status).toBe('idle')
+  })
+})
diff --git a/mobile/src/hooks/use-mobile-dictation.ts b/mobile/src/hooks/use-mobile-dictation.ts
index 733d259e5ba..5e3e52e6297 100644
--- a/mobile/src/hooks/use-mobile-dictation.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/hooks/use-mobile-dictation.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
   const pendingAudioBudgetRef = useRef(new MobileDictationPendingAudioBudget())
   const acceptingChunksRef = useRef(false)
   const generationRef = useRef(0)
-  const finishingIdRef = useRef<string | null>(null)
 
   useLayoutEffect(() => {
     // Native audio events can arrive before passive Effects flush, but refs
@@ -103,8 +102,7 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
     const audioChunkQueue = {
       pendingChunks: pendingChunksRef.current,
       pendingAudioBudget: pendingAudioBudgetRef.current,
-      shouldReleaseBudget: (id: string) =>
-        activeIdRef.current === id || finishingIdRef.current === id,
+      shouldReleaseBudget: (id: string) => activeIdRef.current === id,
       failActiveDictation
     }
     const sub = capture.onChunk((chunk) => {
@@ -206,7 +204,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
 
     const generation = generationRef.current + 1
     generationRef.current = generation
-    finishingIdRef.current = dictationId
     setStatus('processing')
     try {
       // Inside the try so a throwing native shutdown still runs the finally
@@ -225,7 +222,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
           generation,
           enabledRef.current,
           activeIdRef.current,
-          finishingIdRef.current,
           dictationId
         )
       ) {
@@ -244,7 +240,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
           generation,
           enabledRef.current,
           activeIdRef.current,
-          finishingIdRef.current,
           dictationId
         )
       ) {
@@ -253,7 +248,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
       const transcript = rpcPayloadMember(finished, 'text')
       const text = typeof transcript === 'string' ? transcript.trim() : ''
       activeIdRef.current = null
-      finishingIdRef.current = null
       pendingChunksRef.current.clear()
       pendingAudioBudgetRef.current.reset()
       setStatus('idle')
@@ -268,9 +262,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
       // Hold the wake tag through chunk drain and the finish RPC: a screen
       // lock mid-processing suspends the app and loses the transcript.
       void keepAwakeOwner.release(dictationId).catch(() => undefined)
-      if (finishingIdRef.current === dictationId) {
-        finishingIdRef.current = null
-      }
     }
   }, [capture, failActiveDictation, keepAwakeOwner])
 
@@ -279,7 +270,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
     const dictationId = activeIdRef.current
     generationRef.current += 1
     activeIdRef.current = null
-    finishingIdRef.current = null
     closeDictationAudio(dictationId)
     if (client && dictationId) {
       await dictationSessionCancel.request(client, { dictationId }).catch(() => undefined)
@@ -308,7 +298,6 @@ export function useMobileDictation(options: UseMobileDictationOptions): UseMobil
       const dictationId = activeIdRef.current
       generationRef.current += 1
       activeIdRef.current = null
-      finishingIdRef.current = null
       closeDictationAudio(dictationId)
       capture.release()
       if (clientRef.current && dictationId) {