diff --git a/packages/devbar/src/constants.test.ts b/packages/devbar/src/constants.test.ts
index deed9c2..0dada32 100644
--- a/packages/devbar/src/constants.test.ts
+++ b/packages/devbar/src/constants.test.ts
@@ -197,17 +197,18 @@ describe('DEVBAR_STYLES responsive custom controls', () => {
     expect(customStatusBlock).not.toContain('flex: 1 1 auto');
   });
 
-  it('uses compact simulated-mobile controls instead of touch-sized controls', () => {
+  it('keeps mobile toolbar controls at the 44px touch-target floor', () => {
     const mobileStart = DEVBAR_STYLES.indexOf('@media (max-width: 639px)');
     const mobileBlock = DEVBAR_STYLES.slice(mobileStart);
 
-    expect(mobileBlock).toContain('grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 32px)');
-    expect(mobileBlock).toContain('width: 32px !important');
-    expect(mobileBlock).toContain('min-height: 0 !important');
+    expect(mobileBlock).toContain('grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 44px)');
+    expect(mobileBlock).toContain('width: 44px !important');
+    expect(mobileBlock).toContain('min-height: 44px !important');
+    expect(mobileBlock).toContain('[data-devbar] > button');
     expect(mobileBlock).toContain('.devbar-custom-controls-inline');
     expect(mobileBlock).toContain('padding: 0 !important');
-    expect(mobileBlock).not.toContain('grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 44px)');
-    expect(mobileBlock).not.toContain('min-height: 44px !important');
+    expect(mobileBlock).not.toContain('grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 32px)');
+    expect(mobileBlock).not.toContain('min-height: 32px !important');
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/packages/devbar/src/constants.ts b/packages/devbar/src/constants.ts
index 26b1159..0be4dcf 100644
--- a/packages/devbar/src/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/devbar/src/constants.ts
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ export const DEVBAR_STYLES = `
   }
   .devbar-actions {
     display: grid;
-    grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 32px);
+    grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 44px);
     justify-content: center;
     justify-items: center;
     align-items: center;
@@ -904,10 +904,17 @@ export const DEVBAR_STYLES = `
     display: none;
   }
   .devbar-actions button {
-    width: 32px !important;
-    height: 32px !important;
-    min-width: 32px !important;
-    min-height: 32px !important;
+    width: 44px !important;
+    height: 44px !important;
+    min-width: 44px !important;
+    min-height: 44px !important;
+  }
+  /* Compact mode mounts its controls directly under the toolbar root instead
+     of inside .devbar-actions. Keep the icon small while expanding its real
+     hit box to the same mobile floor. */
+  [data-devbar] > button {
+    min-width: 44px !important;
+    min-height: 44px !important;
   }
   .devbar-actions button svg {
     width: 14px;
@@ -922,7 +929,7 @@ export const DEVBAR_STYLES = `
     padding: 0 !important;
   }
   .devbar-custom-control {
-    min-height: 0 !important;
+    min-height: 44px !important;
     max-width: 100% !important;
     padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem !important;
     font-size: 0.5625rem !important;
diff --git a/packages/playground/src/release-notes.json b/packages/playground/src/release-notes.json
index df9a516..b45b868 100644
--- a/packages/playground/src/release-notes.json
+++ b/packages/playground/src/release-notes.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   "devbar": {
+    "1.18.4": "Restore the 44px mobile touch-target floor for every devbar control (DEV-7422). The responsive toolbar had deliberately reduced action buttons and custom controls to 32px, which made the fixed developer toolbar fail the same mobile hit-target audit used on host applications. Action buttons, compact-mode direct controls, and custom controls now retain at least a 44x44px interactive area while their icons stay visually compact.",
     "1.18.3": "Retry the badge-hide shadow-root injection for quiescent captures (DEV-6497). `suppressFrameworkDevIndicators` dropped its injection when the `nextjs-portal` element was present but its shadow root had not attached yet: the light-DOM MutationObserver sees the portal insertion (shadow still null) but never the later shadow attach — a shadow-DOM mutation it cannot observe — so on a *quiescent* captured page (no further mutations to self-heal) the resting Next.js badge leaked into the screenshot, the exact failure the badge-hide prevents. It now retries for a bounded number of animation frames (`setTimeout` fallback) when the portal is present but its shadow root is not ready, then gives up so a never-attaching portal cannot spin forever.",
     "1.18.2": "Hide the framework's own floating dev indicator (the Next.js dev-tools \"N\" badge) while it is benign — but never while it is signalling an error. Next renders the badge inside a `nextjs-portal` **shadow root**, fixed to a bottom corner; at rest it duplicates the devbar, sits on top of page content, and pollutes screenshots — and shadow-DOM encapsulation means no capture pipeline can hide it from the outside (a main-document `<style>` or html2canvas `ignoreElements` never reaches into the portal's shadow root). The devbar now injects a hide rule INTO that shadow root on init (`suppressFrameworkDevIndicators`, watching for the portal to (re)mount), so every capture backend — agent-browser, sweetlink CDP/CLI, html2canvas — sees the resting badge hidden. The rule is scoped to `[data-next-badge][data-error=\"false\"]`, so an **errored** badge (`data-error=\"true\"`) stays fully visible: a capture that shows it is telling you the captured page is broken, and hiding that would mask a real defect. `data-error` is live, so the CSS reacts on its own as errors come and go; the `[data-nextjs-dialog-overlay]` error overlay is likewise untouched. Cleaned up on `destroy()`.",
     "1.18.1": "Fix a leaked recording render-interval and a stuck record button (DEV-4874). The `record-start-response` handler now clears the timer the click handler started optimistically before starting its own (the first interval previously leaked and re-rendered forever) and rolls back the optimistic “recording” UI when the daemon reports the start failed. The Sweetlink WS record proxy now forwards `record-start` params (label/viewport) to the daemon instead of dropping them.",