diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.svelte.ts
index fe784da4ef..a37244e081 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.svelte.ts
@@ -193,8 +193,7 @@ class Entry<V> {
 	waitingOn: Entry<any>[] = []
 	handles = new Set<Handle<V>>()
 	stopWatch: (() => void) | undefined
-	/** Fields a `patch` has put on the deployed side ahead of the server; a save landing
-	 *  meanwhile keeps them rather than rolling the baseline back past them. */
+	/** Fields a `patch` has put on the deployed side ahead of the server. */
 	private patched: Record<string, unknown> = {}
 	/** The value as last observed, serialized: `touch` acts only on a real change. */
 	private seen: string | undefined
@@ -256,6 +255,14 @@ class Entry<V> {
 		this.ports.write(key, desired === null ? null : snapshot(this.value))
 	}
 
+	/** A deployed side the server gave, with the fields a patch is still ahead of it on. Every
+	 *  write of that side goes through here: rolling the baseline back past an optimistic toggle
+	 *  makes the value differ from it, which is a draft row of a change nobody made. */
+	private withPatched(deployed: V | undefined): V | undefined {
+		if (deployed === undefined) return undefined
+		return { ...deployed, ...this.patched } as V
+	}
+
 	private replaceValue(value: V | undefined): void {
 		this.value = snapshot(value)
 		this.seen = serialize(this.value)
@@ -335,7 +342,7 @@ class Entry<V> {
 				if (!keepValue) this.replaceValue(res.template)
 				return { ok: true }
 			}
-			this.deployed = snapshot(res.deployed)
+			this.deployed = this.withPatched(snapshot(res.deployed))
 			this.origin = res.deployed !== undefined ? 'deployed' : 'draft'
 			this.row = serialize(res.draft) ?? null
 			this.ports.seedSync(key, res.draftSavedAt)
@@ -428,7 +435,7 @@ class Entry<V> {
 				wrote = true
 				this.error = undefined
 				if (held !== sent) this.adopt(sent, held)
-				this.deployed = { ...held, ...this.patched } as V
+				this.deployed = this.withPatched(held)
 				this.origin = 'deployed'
 				this.template = undefined
 				if (moved) this.moveTo(to)
@@ -575,7 +582,10 @@ class Entry<V> {
 			}
 			settled()
 			this.error = undefined
-			if (this[baseKey] !== undefined) this[baseKey] = { ...this[baseKey], ...sent } as V
+			// `settled` has dropped from `patched` whatever this patch owned, so what is left is a
+			// newer patch of the same field, whose value stands over this one's.
+			if (this[baseKey] !== undefined)
+				this[baseKey] = this.withPatched({ ...this[baseKey], ...sent } as V)
 			this.touch()
 			this.reconcile()
 			return { ok: true }
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts
index 29b00a14c4..447347b918 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts
@@ -251,6 +251,64 @@ describe('item store: commands', () => {
 		expect(rows.writes.at(-1)).toEqual({ path: 's', value: null })
 	})
 
+	it('lets the later of two overlapping toggles stand, without a row in between', async () => {
+		type Sched = { path: string; enabled: boolean; summary: string }
+		const rows = fakeRows()
+		const first = deferred()
+		const store = createItemStore(rows.port)
+		const { handle: item } = store.acquire(
+			{ workspace: 'w', kind: 'trigger_schedule', path: 's' },
+			{ workspace: 'w', path: 's' },
+			{
+				load: async () => ({ deployed: { path: 's', enabled: false, summary: 'a' } })
+			} as ItemAdapter<Sched>
+		)
+		await settle()
+		const enabling = item.patch({ enabled: true }, () => first.promise)
+		const disabling = item.patch({ enabled: false }, async () => {})
+		first.resolve()
+
+		expect(await enabling).toEqual({ ok: true })
+		// The first request landing must not put its own `enabled` back over the second's.
+		expect(item.dirty).toBe(false)
+		expect(await disabling).toEqual({ ok: true })
+		expect(item.deployed).toEqual({ path: 's', enabled: false, summary: 'a' })
+		expect(item.dirty).toBe(false)
+		expect(rows.writes).toEqual([])
+	})
+
+	it('keeps a toggle made during a read the server answered before it', async () => {
+		type Sched = { path: string; enabled: boolean; summary: string }
+		const rows = fakeRows()
+		const reading = deferred()
+		let reads = 0
+		const store = createItemStore(rows.port)
+		const { handle: item } = store.acquire(
+			{ workspace: 'w', kind: 'trigger_schedule', path: 's' },
+			{ workspace: 'w', path: 's' },
+			{
+				load: async () => {
+					// The read in flight predates the toggle, so it still reports it disabled.
+					if (reads++ > 0) await reading.promise
+					return { deployed: { path: 's', enabled: false, summary: 'a' } }
+				}
+			} as ItemAdapter<Sched>
+		)
+		await settle()
+		const reloading = item.reload()
+		await settle()
+		const toggling = item.patch({ enabled: true }, async () => {})
+		reading.resolve()
+
+		expect(await reloading).toEqual({ ok: true })
+		// The read must not put the schedule back to disabled under the toggle: that reads as an
+		// unsaved change to `enabled` and would be written as a draft.
+		expect(item.dirty).toBe(false)
+		expect(await toggling).toEqual({ ok: true })
+		expect(item.deployed).toEqual({ path: 's', enabled: true, summary: 'a' })
+		expect(rows.writes).toEqual([])
+	})
+
 	it('holds a toggle behind a save, and keeps an unrelated edit through the toggle', async () => {
 		type Sched = { path: string; enabled: boolean; summary: string }
 		const rows = fakeRows()