diff --git a/mobile/app/_layout.tsx b/mobile/app/_layout.tsx
index 775c452d54a..515fec3adb6 100644
--- a/mobile/app/_layout.tsx
+++ b/mobile/app/_layout.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { RpcClientProvider } from '../src/transport/client-context'
 import { getNotificationNavigationTarget } from '../src/notifications/notification-routing'
 import { useOpenNotificationRoute } from '../src/notifications/use-open-notification-route'
 import {
+  isRemotePushTrigger,
   pushNotificationRouteData,
   shouldSuppressForegroundPush
 } from '../src/notifications/push-receive'
@@ -116,10 +117,17 @@ export default function RootLayout() {
       }
     }
 
-    async function getNavigationTarget(data: unknown) {
+    async function getNavigationTarget(notification: Notifications.Notification) {
       const hosts = await loadHostCatalog().catch(() => null)
+      const data: unknown = notification.request.content.data
       // A gateway push names its host by key fingerprint, not by this device's hostId.
-      const routeData = hosts ? pushNotificationRouteData(data, hosts) : data
+      // With no catalog to resolve against, such a push stays unrouted instead of
+      // falling back to whatever hostId its raw data carries.
+      const routeData = pushNotificationRouteData(
+        data,
+        hosts ?? [],
+        isRemotePushTrigger(notification.request.trigger)
+      )
       return getNotificationNavigationTarget(routeData, {
         knownHostIds: hosts ? new Set(hosts.map((host) => host.id)) : undefined,
         credentialStatusByHostId: hosts
@@ -148,7 +156,7 @@ export default function RootLayout() {
         }
       }
 
-      const target = await getNavigationTarget(response.notification.request.content.data)
+      const target = await getNavigationTarget(response.notification)
       clearLastNotificationResponse()
       if (disposed) {
         return
diff --git a/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.test.ts b/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.test.ts
index 67aa88f1895..c7b1a718610 100644
--- a/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.test.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.test.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ import {
   getHostNotificationSession,
   resetHostNotificationSessionsForTests
 } from './notification-reconnect-catchup'
-import { pushNotificationRouteData, shouldSuppressForegroundPush } from './push-receive'
+import {
+  isRemotePushTrigger,
+  pushNotificationRouteData,
+  shouldSuppressForegroundPush
+} from './push-receive'
 
 vi.mock('../transport/host-store', () => ({ loadHostCatalog: vi.fn() }))
 
@@ -48,17 +52,29 @@ beforeEach(() => {
 
 describe('shouldSuppressForegroundPush', () => {
   it('suppresses a push whose id and seq the socket already delivered', async () => {
-    getHostNotificationSession('host-1').seen.add('id:agent:one#7')
+    const session = getHostNotificationSession('host-1')
+    session.lastDeliveredEpoch = 'epoch-1'
+    session.seen.add('id:agent:one#7')
 
     await expect(
       shouldSuppressForegroundPush(
-        apnsData({ hostFingerprint, notificationId: 'agent:one', notificationSeq: 7 })
+        apnsData({
+          hostFingerprint,
+          notificationId: 'agent:one',
+          notificationSeq: 7,
+          notificationEpoch: 'epoch-1'
+        })
       )
     ).resolves.toBe(true)
   })
 
   it('shows an unseen push and marks it so the socket replay is dropped', async () => {
-    const data = apnsData({ hostFingerprint, notificationId: 'agent:one', notificationSeq: 7 })
+    const data = apnsData({
+      hostFingerprint,
+      notificationId: 'agent:one',
+      notificationSeq: 7,
+      notificationEpoch: 'epoch-1'
+    })
 
     await expect(shouldSuppressForegroundPush(data)).resolves.toBe(false)
 
@@ -67,25 +83,55 @@ describe('shouldSuppressForegroundPush', () => {
   })
 
   it('reads the flat stringified fields an FCM data message carries', async () => {
-    getHostNotificationSession('host-1').seen.add('id:agent:one#7')
+    const session = getHostNotificationSession('host-1')
+    session.lastDeliveredEpoch = 'epoch-1'
+    session.seen.add('id:agent:one#7')
 
     await expect(
       shouldSuppressForegroundPush(
-        fcmData({ hostFingerprint, notificationId: 'agent:one', notificationSeq: 7 })
+        fcmData({
+          hostFingerprint,
+          notificationId: 'agent:one',
+          notificationSeq: 7,
+          notificationEpoch: 'epoch-1'
+        })
       )
     ).resolves.toBe(true)
   })
 
   it('keys a terminal bell on its seq alone, since it carries no notification id', async () => {
-    getHostNotificationSession('host-1').seen.add('seq:4')
+    const session = getHostNotificationSession('host-1')
+    session.lastDeliveredEpoch = 'epoch-1'
+    session.seen.add('seq:4')
 
     await expect(
       shouldSuppressForegroundPush(
-        apnsData({ hostFingerprint, source: 'terminal-bell', notificationSeq: 4 })
+        apnsData({
+          hostFingerprint,
+          source: 'terminal-bell',
+          notificationSeq: 4,
+          notificationEpoch: 'epoch-1'
+        })
       )
     ).resolves.toBe(true)
   })
 
+  it('shows a push that names no counter lifetime without letting it claim a key', async () => {
+    const session = getHostNotificationSession('host-1')
+    session.lastDeliveredEpoch = 'epoch-1'
+    session.seen.add('seq:4')
+
+    // Without an epoch the seq cannot be tied to this counter, so a forged seq:4
+    // must neither be swallowed against it nor stop the real bell at seq 4.
+    await expect(
+      shouldSuppressForegroundPush(apnsData({ hostFingerprint, notificationSeq: 4 }))
+    ).resolves.toBe(false)
+    await expect(
+      shouldSuppressForegroundPush(apnsData({ hostFingerprint, notificationSeq: 5 }))
+    ).resolves.toBe(false)
+    expect(session.seen.has('seq:5')).toBe(false)
+  })
+
   it('voids seen keys from a previous desktop lifetime before testing its own', async () => {
     const session = getHostNotificationSession('host-1')
     session.lastDeliveredEpoch = 'epoch-old'
@@ -192,6 +238,28 @@ describe('pushNotificationRouteData', () => {
     expect(getNotificationNavigationTarget(data)).toBeNull()
   })
 
+  it('leaves a remote push unrouted when no host catalog could be read', () => {
+    const data = { hostId: 'host-1', orca: { hostFingerprint, notificationId: 'agent:one' } }
+
+    expect(pushNotificationRouteData(data, [], true)).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('leaves a remote push with no fingerprint unrouted instead of treating it as local', () => {
+    const data = { hostId: 'host-1', worktreeId: 'wt-1', source: 'agent-task-complete' }
+
+    expect(pushNotificationRouteData(data, hosts, true)).toBeNull()
+    // The same shape from this app's own scheduler still routes.
+    expect(pushNotificationRouteData(data, hosts, false)).toBe(data)
+  })
+
+  it('recognises only a provider-delivered trigger as remote', () => {
+    expect(isRemotePushTrigger({ type: 'push' })).toBe(true)
+    expect(isRemotePushTrigger({ type: 'timeInterval', seconds: 1 })).toBe(false)
+    expect(isRemotePushTrigger({ channelId: 'orca-desktop' })).toBe(false)
+    expect(isRemotePushTrigger(null)).toBe(false)
+    expect(isRemotePushTrigger(undefined)).toBe(false)
+  })
+
   it('drops a gateway payload that pairs an unresolvable fingerprint with a stray hostId', () => {
     const data = {
       hostId: 'host-1',
diff --git a/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.ts b/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.ts
index 06debf04d9f..36af16a15d8 100644
--- a/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/notifications/push-receive.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ export async function shouldSuppressForegroundPush(data: unknown): Promise<boole
   // reconnect replays the desktop's whole retained buffer.
   seedWatermarkFromStorage(session, hostId)
   await session.watermarkSeeded
+  // A push that names no counter lifetime cannot claim a seq-derived key: the
+  // desktop always sends the epoch, so this is shown as-is and never marked.
+  if (payload.notificationEpoch == null) {
+    return false
+  }
   // The seen keys are seq-derived, so a push from a new desktop lifetime must void
   // them before its own key is tested against a counter that no longer exists.
   adoptNotificationEpoch(session, hostId, payload.notificationEpoch)
@@ -61,6 +66,15 @@ export async function shouldSuppressForegroundPush(data: unknown): Promise<boole
   return false
 }
 
+/** Whether the OS says a notification came from a provider rather than this app. */
+export function isRemotePushTrigger(trigger: unknown): boolean {
+  return (
+    typeof trigger === 'object' &&
+    trigger !== null &&
+    (trigger as { readonly type?: unknown }).type === 'push'
+  )
+}
+
 /**
  * Notification data a tap can route with: the gateway names the host by fingerprint,
  * so it is mapped back to this device's hostId. Locally scheduled data passes
@@ -68,15 +82,18 @@ export async function shouldSuppressForegroundPush(data: unknown): Promise<boole
  *
  * Why null and not the raw data when the fingerprint does not resolve: a gateway
  * payload is attacker-adjacent input, and passing it on would let a stray `hostId`
- * beside the `orca` block route a tap at a host the push never named.
+ * beside the `orca` block route a tap at a host the push never named. A remote
+ * push with no fingerprint at all is the same input minus the block, so it is
+ * unrouted too rather than handed to the local path as if this app scheduled it.
  */
 export function pushNotificationRouteData(
   data: unknown,
-  hosts: readonly { readonly id: string; readonly publicKeyB64: string }[]
+  hosts: readonly { readonly id: string; readonly publicKeyB64: string }[],
+  remote = false
 ): unknown {
   const payload = readOrcaPushPayload(data)
   if (!payload) {
-    return data
+    return remote ? null : data
   }
   const hostId = resolveHostIdForFingerprint(payload.hostFingerprint, hosts)
   if (!hostId) {
diff --git a/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.test.ts b/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.test.ts
index 932ca60d348..377dc9dab18 100644
--- a/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.test.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.test.ts
@@ -101,6 +101,17 @@ describe('markPresentedPushesSeen', () => {
     expect(session.lastDeliveredSeq).toBe(0)
   })
 
+  it('drops a key that names no counter lifetime at all', () => {
+    const session = getHostNotificationSession('host-1')
+    session.lastDeliveredEpoch = 'epoch-1'
+
+    markPresentedPushesSeen(session, [{ key: 'seq:4', epoch: undefined }])
+
+    // The desktop always sends an epoch; a key without one cannot be shown to belong
+    // to this counter, and claiming it would drop the real bell at seq 4.
+    expect(session.seen.has('seq:4')).toBe(false)
+  })
+
   it('drops a key from a desktop lifetime that has already been retired', () => {
     const session = getHostNotificationSession('host-1')
     session.lastDeliveredEpoch = 'epoch-2'
diff --git a/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.ts b/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.ts
index 9eab0e6fc4b..782e35e3d92 100644
--- a/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/notifications/push-tray-seen-seed.ts
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ export async function readPresentedPushSeenKeys(
 }
 
 /**
- * Claim the tray's keys on the session, skipping any from a dead counter lifetime.
+ * Claim the tray's keys on the session, skipping any that do not name the live
+ * counter lifetime. A push without an epoch cannot be tied to this counter, and
+ * the desktop always sends one, so it is left unclaimed rather than allowed to
+ * swallow a real event at the same seq.
  *
  * The watermark is deliberately untouched: a push seq proves one event was shown,
  * not that everything below it was, and advancing past a gap would make the desktop
@@ -60,11 +63,7 @@ export function markPresentedPushesSeen(
   keys: readonly PresentedPushSeenKey[]
 ): void {
   for (const { key, epoch } of keys) {
-    if (
-      epoch != null &&
-      session.lastDeliveredEpoch != null &&
-      epoch !== session.lastDeliveredEpoch
-    ) {
+    if (epoch == null || epoch !== session.lastDeliveredEpoch) {
       continue
     }
     session.seen.add(key)