diff --git a/mobile/app/index.tsx b/mobile/app/index.tsx
index ad9574632d4..205c7acac70 100644
--- a/mobile/app/index.tsx
+++ b/mobile/app/index.tsx
@@ -538,7 +538,6 @@ export default function HomeScreen() {
       }
     }
     // Why: key on host-id set + each client's identity so resubs fire when forceReconnect swaps a host's client, not on every render.
-    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
   }, [
     allClients
       .map((e) => `${e.hostId}:${clientKey(e.client)}`)
diff --git a/mobile/src/transport/host-list-load-sharing.ts b/mobile/src/transport/host-list-load-sharing.ts
index 40c1fa5a011..ab1e9e2fe89 100644
--- a/mobile/src/transport/host-list-load-sharing.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/transport/host-list-load-sharing.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import type { HostProfile } from './types'
 
-// Why: Keychain reads are slow (50-200ms) and loadHosts() runs on every screen
-// mount, so concurrent callers share one pass instead of each paying for their
-// own. A pass that started before a write still holds the pre-write snapshot,
-// though — handing it to a caller that loaded AFTER the write returns the host
-// that caller just removed, or the name it just replaced (issue #8791). So every
-// durable commit drops the shared pass and the next caller reads fresh.
+// Why: concurrent callers share a slow Keychain pass; durable writes invalidate
+// it so later loads cannot receive stale snapshots (#8791).
 let inflight: Promise<HostProfile[]> | null = null
+let revision = 0
+
+export function getHostListLoadRevision(): number {
+  return revision
+}
 
 export function shareHostListLoad(load: () => Promise<HostProfile[]>): Promise<HostProfile[]> {
   if (inflight) {
@@ -25,5 +26,6 @@ export function shareHostListLoad(load: () => Promise<HostProfile[]>): Promise<H
 
 /** Call after every durable host write so no later read is served a pre-write pass. */
 export function dropSharedHostListLoad(): void {
+  revision += 1
   inflight = null
 }
diff --git a/mobile/src/transport/host-store.test.ts b/mobile/src/transport/host-store.test.ts
index cba8d24e85e..a6cc8f6a4ac 100644
--- a/mobile/src/transport/host-store.test.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/transport/host-store.test.ts
@@ -415,6 +415,35 @@ describe('host-store list mutations', () => {
     )
   })
 
+  it('does not let a late pre-write token read poison the token cache', async () => {
+    const newHost = {
+      id: 'host-new',
+      name: 'New Host',
+      endpoint: 'ws://127.0.0.1:3',
+      publicKeyB64: 'key-new',
+      deviceToken: 'token-new',
+      lastConnected: 0
+    }
+    storedHostsRaw = JSON.stringify([{ ...newHost, deviceToken: undefined }])
+    let resolvePrewriteTokenRead: (token: string) => void = () => {}
+    secureStoreMock.getItemAsync.mockReturnValue(
+      new Promise<string>((resolve) => {
+        resolvePrewriteTokenRead = resolve
+      })
+    )
+
+    const parkedLoad = loadHosts()
+    await vi.waitFor(() => {
+      expect(secureStoreMock.getItemAsync).toHaveBeenCalled()
+    })
+    await saveHost(newHost)
+    resolvePrewriteTokenRead('token-old')
+    await parkedLoad
+
+    const hosts = await loadHosts()
+    expect(hosts.find((host) => host.id === newHost.id)?.deviceToken).toBe(newHost.deviceToken)
+  })
+
   it('still shares one Keychain pass across loads with no write between them', async () => {
     const releaseKeychain = gateKeychainReads()
     const first = loadHosts()
diff --git a/mobile/src/transport/host-store.ts b/mobile/src/transport/host-store.ts
index 3aa3587fd62..c932f9b6e66 100644
--- a/mobile/src/transport/host-store.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/transport/host-store.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
   type StoredHostProfile
 } from './types'
 import { getNextHostNameFromHosts } from './host-names'
-import { dropSharedHostListLoad, shareHostListLoad } from './host-list-load-sharing'
+import * as hostListLoads from './host-list-load-sharing'
 import {
   retryPendingHostCredentialCleanups,
   scheduleHostCredentialCleanup
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ export async function loadHosts(): Promise<HostProfile[]> {
   // Why: writers hold the mutation chain across their full RMW; wait so a load doesn't race a half-written list.
   await hostListMutation
   // Why: deduplicate concurrent loadHosts() calls so simultaneously mounting screens share one Keychain read pass.
-  return shareHostListLoad(doLoadHosts)
+  return hostListLoads.shareHostListLoad(doLoadHosts)
 }
 
 async function doLoadHosts(): Promise<HostProfile[]> {
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ async function doLoadHosts(): Promise<HostProfile[]> {
   for (const stored of storedHosts) {
     let token = tokenCache.get(stored.id)
     if (!token) {
+      const readRevision = hostListLoads.getHostListLoadRevision()
       let fetched: string | null
       try {
         fetched = await readDeviceToken(stored.id)
@@ -137,7 +138,9 @@ async function doLoadHosts(): Promise<HostProfile[]> {
         continue
       }
       token = fetched
-      tokenCache.set(stored.id, token)
+      if (readRevision === hostListLoads.getHostListLoadRevision()) {
+        tokenCache.set(stored.id, token)
+      }
     }
     const overlay = overlays.get(stored.id)
     out.push({
@@ -191,7 +194,7 @@ async function mutateStoredHosts(
     const current = await readStoredHostsForMutation()
     const next = update(current)
     await AsyncStorage.setItem(STORAGE_KEY, JSON.stringify(next))
-    dropSharedHostListLoad()
+    hostListLoads.dropSharedHostListLoad()
   })
   hostListMutation = mutation.catch(() => {})
   return mutation
@@ -245,7 +248,7 @@ async function persistHost(host: HostProfile, requireExisting: boolean): Promise
   // Why: write metadata before the keychain token so a crash leaves recoverable orphaned metadata, not an orphaned token that persists forever.
   await writeDeviceToken(stored.id, validated.deviceToken)
   tokenCache.set(stored.id, validated.deviceToken)
-  dropSharedHostListLoad()
+  hostListLoads.dropSharedHostListLoad()
   if (validated.endpoints) {
     await saveMobileRelayHostOverlay({
       v: 2,
@@ -254,7 +257,7 @@ async function persistHost(host: HostProfile, requireExisting: boolean): Promise
       relayHostId: validated.relayHostId,
       relay: validated.relay
     })
-    dropSharedHostListLoad()
+    hostListLoads.dropSharedHostListLoad()
   }
   const overlayRemovalIds = [...duplicateHostIds]
   if (!validated.endpoints && updatedExistingHost) {
@@ -263,7 +266,7 @@ async function persistHost(host: HostProfile, requireExisting: boolean): Promise
   if (overlayRemovalIds.length > 0) {
     // Why: reusing an id for direct-only re-pairing must not retain routing metadata from the previous transport state.
     await removeMobileRelayHostOverlays(overlayRemovalIds)
-    dropSharedHostListLoad()
+    hostListLoads.dropSharedHostListLoad()
   }
   for (const duplicateHostId of duplicateHostIds) {
     tokenCache.delete(duplicateHostId)
@@ -280,7 +283,7 @@ export async function removeHost(hostId: string): Promise<void> {
   tokenCache.delete(hostId)
   try {
     await removeMobileRelayHostOverlay(hostId)
-    dropSharedHostListLoad()
+    hostListLoads.dropSharedHostListLoad()
   } catch {
     // Base removal is authoritative; a retained overlay can't resurrect the host and is cleaned on a later retry.
   }
@@ -340,5 +343,5 @@ export async function updateLastConnected(hostId: string): Promise<void> {
 export function resetHostStoreForTests(): void {
   hostListMutation = Promise.resolve()
   tokenCache.clear()
-  dropSharedHostListLoad()
+  hostListLoads.dropSharedHostListLoad()
 }