diff --git a/client/src/index.css b/client/src/index.css
index 115a7eebe..04399e6ce 100644
--- a/client/src/index.css
+++ b/client/src/index.css
@@ -15,7 +15,14 @@ body { height: 100%; overflow: auto; overscroll-behavior: none; -webkit-overflow
    reloads the installed PWA. Desktop/tablet keep the rules above. */
 @media (max-width: 767px) {
   html { overflow: visible; overscroll-behavior: none; }
-  body { height: auto; overflow: visible; }
+  /* overflow-x clip (not hidden: clip creates no scroll container) so a screen
+     that accidentally overflows sideways cannot widen the document. Android's
+     forced-zoom setting reacts to a wider document by growing the layout
+     viewport that position:fixed resolves against, which pushed the top bar
+     and the dock off the right edge on narrow phones. On body, never on html:
+     body's overflow only propagates to the viewport while html stays visible,
+     and the shared body scroll lock relies on that propagation. */
+  body { height: auto; overflow: visible; overflow-x: clip; }
   /* Transparent so the shell's own background layer, which sits behind the page
      on a negative z-index, is not painted over: a negative layer goes above the
      canvas but below the background of ordinary blocks, and body is one. The
diff --git a/client/src/mobile/mobile.css b/client/src/mobile/mobile.css
index 6f6049769..784b1d914 100644
--- a/client/src/mobile/mobile.css
+++ b/client/src/mobile/mobile.css
@@ -363,3 +363,14 @@
   -webkit-appearance: none;
   appearance: none;
 }
+
+/* Horizontal scroller without a visible scrollbar, for control rows that must
+   survive narrow viewports and large system font scales (dashboard filter). */
+.m-hscroll {
+  overflow-x: auto;
+  overscroll-behavior-x: contain;
+  scrollbar-width: none;
+}
+.m-hscroll::-webkit-scrollbar {
+  display: none;
+}
diff --git a/client/src/mobile/screens/dashboard/MDashboard.tsx b/client/src/mobile/screens/dashboard/MDashboard.tsx
index d30cad247..dc2c10072 100644
--- a/client/src/mobile/screens/dashboard/MDashboard.tsx
+++ b/client/src/mobile/screens/dashboard/MDashboard.tsx
@@ -132,17 +132,25 @@ export default function MDashboard(): React.ReactElement {
     return (
       <>
         <div className="mt-[14px] flex items-center gap-[7px]">
-          <MSegmented<TripFilter>
-            value={tripFilter}
-            onChange={setTripFilter}
-            variant="intrinsic"
-            options={[
-              { value: 'planned', label: t('dashboard.filter.planned') },
-              { value: 'archive', label: t('dashboard.archived') },
-              { value: 'completed', label: t('dashboard.mobile.completed') },
-            ]}
-          />
-          <MIconBtn ariaLabel={t('dashboard.subscribeAllTrips')} size={36} className="ml-auto" onClick={() => setSubOpen(true)}>
+          {/* The chips scroll inside their own flexible box on narrow viewports
+              or large system font scales; without it this row was the widest
+              thing on the page and dragged the fixed bars off-screen under
+              Android's forced zoom. min-w-max keeps the pill track wrapping
+              its chips instead of getting squeezed to the box. */}
+          <div className="m-hscroll min-w-0 flex-1">
+            <MSegmented<TripFilter>
+              value={tripFilter}
+              onChange={setTripFilter}
+              variant="intrinsic"
+              className="min-w-max"
+              options={[
+                { value: 'planned', label: t('dashboard.filter.planned') },
+                { value: 'archive', label: t('dashboard.archived') },
+                { value: 'completed', label: t('dashboard.mobile.completed') },
+              ]}
+            />
+          </div>
+          <MIconBtn ariaLabel={t('dashboard.subscribeAllTrips')} size={36} className="flex-none" onClick={() => setSubOpen(true)}>
             <CalendarPlus size={15} strokeWidth={2} className="text-m-muted" />
           </MIconBtn>
           <button
diff --git a/client/tests/unit/mobile/dashboard/MDashboard.test.tsx b/client/tests/unit/mobile/dashboard/MDashboard.test.tsx
index d9f92cd18..267f1d4d2 100644
--- a/client/tests/unit/mobile/dashboard/MDashboard.test.tsx
+++ b/client/tests/unit/mobile/dashboard/MDashboard.test.tsx
@@ -539,4 +539,19 @@ describe('MDashboard', () => {
     await waitFor(() =>
       expect(screen.queryByText('dashboard.subscribeAllTripsDesc')).not.toBeInTheDocument());
   });
+
+  it('FE-MOB-DASH-038: the filter row cannot widen the document on narrow phones (#discord S26)', async () => {
+    render(<MDashboard />);
+
+    // The chip track scrolls inside its own flexible box; without this the row
+    // was the widest element on the page and dragged the fixed bars off-screen
+    // under Android's forced zoom.
+    const chip = await screen.findByText('dashboard.filter.planned');
+    const track = chip.closest('button')!.parentElement as HTMLElement;
+    expect(track.className).toContain('min-w-max');
+    const wrapper = track.parentElement as HTMLElement;
+    expect(wrapper.className).toContain('m-hscroll');
+    expect(wrapper.className).toContain('min-w-0');
+    expect(wrapper.className).toContain('flex-1');
+  });
 });