diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index beda77a..5937985 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ unreachable model within minutes, and the pipeline no longer imports the chat. N
 
 ### Changed
 
+- **On a phone the toasts stack one high.** Below 48rem only the newest toast shows; an older one comes back
+  when the newest goes, unless its own time ran out first.
 - **The warm-up waits for the chat to be used, and for the changes to pause.** Before the first open since start, a
   run's end or a status change prepares nothing; after it, the warm-up starts once `leadgen.chat.suggestion-quiet-window`
   (default 30 s) has passed without a further change, so triaging applications one by one costs one call from the
diff --git a/docs/decisions/frontend-design-system.md b/docs/decisions/frontend-design-system.md
index 73cc30e..7ea71be 100644
--- a/docs/decisions/frontend-design-system.md
+++ b/docs/decisions/frontend-design-system.md
@@ -630,6 +630,10 @@ One line at the edge of the screen after a write or a run, and the decisions tha
   advert prose, which scrolls. The reveal's duration and easing are the first tokens in
   `src/styles/motion.css`, off under `prefers-reduced-motion`; the lifetime and the cap
   are constants beside the model, because the timer that reads them is TypeScript.
+- **Below 48rem the pile is one toast high.** Full width above the bar, three in a row took a
+  third of a phone's height. The stylesheet shows the newest only; the older ones stay in the store
+  with their timers running and show when the newest goes. CSS rather than a smaller cap for
+  phones, because the cap is the store's and the store does not know the width.
 - **The DOM-render screenshot never paints the fixed stack.** The toast stood in the DOM
   with a measured rectangle while the capture showed nothing. The pictures in the spec
   come from a pixel capture over CDP, taken past the reveal; a frame inside it reads as a
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.browser.spec.ts b/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.browser.spec.ts
index b19a4e7..dc05012 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.browser.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.browser.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import {TestBed} from '@angular/core/testing';
 import {provideRouter} from '@angular/router';
 import {injectDispatch} from '@ngrx/signals/events';
-import {cdp} from 'vitest/browser';
+import {cdp, page} from 'vitest/browser';
 import {shortlistEvents} from '@core/store/shortlist.events';
 import {toastEvents} from '@core/toast/toast.events';
 import {actionToast, toast} from '@core/toast/toast.model';
@@ -102,3 +102,48 @@ describe('ToastStack sizes (ISC-500)', () => {
         }
     });
 });
+
+/**
+ * Below 48rem the stack runs the full width above the bottom bar, and three toasts in a row took a
+ * third of a phone's height. There it shows the newest one only; the older ones stay in the store and
+ * come back as the newest goes.
+ */
+describe('ToastStack on a phone', () => {
+    let dispatch: ReturnType<typeof injectDispatch<typeof toastEvents>>;
+
+    beforeEach(() => {
+        TestBed.configureTestingModule({providers: [provideRouter([])]});
+        dispatch = TestBed.runInInjectionContext(() => injectDispatch(toastEvents));
+    });
+
+    afterEach(async () => {
+        await page.viewport(1280, 800);
+    });
+
+    function raiseThree(): HTMLElement[] {
+        const fixture = TestBed.createComponent(ToastStack);
+        fixture.detectChanges();
+        for (const title of ['First', 'Second', 'Third']) {
+            dispatch.raised(toast('info', 'toast.archived', {title}, '/shortlist/8'));
+        }
+        fixture.detectChanges();
+        return Array.from(fixture.nativeElement.querySelectorAll('.alert'));
+    }
+
+    const shown = (alerts: HTMLElement[]) => alerts.filter((alert) => alert.getClientRects().length > 0);
+
+    it('shows only the newest toast at 390px', async () => {
+        await page.viewport(390, 844);
+        const alerts = raiseThree();
+
+        expect(alerts).toHaveLength(3);
+        expect(shown(alerts)).toEqual([alerts[2]]);
+        expect(alerts[2]!.textContent).toContain('Third');
+    });
+
+    it('keeps the whole stack from 48rem up', async () => {
+        await page.viewport(1280, 800);
+
+        expect(shown(raiseThree())).toHaveLength(3);
+    });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.css b/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.css
index 6f992d8..cb4b435 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.css
+++ b/frontend/src/app/layout/toast-stack/toast-stack.css
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@
     .alert {
         width: 100%;
     }
+
+    /* The newest toast only. Full width above the bar, three in a row took a third of a phone's
+       height. The older ones stay in the store, their timers running, and the next one shows
+       when the newest goes; each was announced when it arrived, so hiding it says nothing twice. */
+    .lg-toasts > :not(:last-child) {
+        display: none;
+    }
 }
 
 .alert {