diff --git a/EXPLORER.md b/EXPLORER.md
index 4fac309..275de56 100644
--- a/EXPLORER.md
+++ b/EXPLORER.md
@@ -208,18 +208,19 @@ absence the signal. Back with unsaved changes asks, and says the edits will
 be lost. The explorer draws over the session, which deliberately has no
 `imePadding`, so the explorer's own box adds it.
 
-### 10. The explorer draws over the session, and the two back controls differ
+### 10. The explorer draws over the session, and back follows what is open
 
 `Screen.Session` in `AppRoot` gains a `files: FilesTarget?`. When set, the
 `FilesScreen` is composed **on top of** the session in the same `Box`, and
 the session stays composed under it: its event stream keeps flowing, its
 scroll position and draft stay where they were, and returning from a file
-costs nothing. The header's back button clears `files` and returns directly to
-the session. Android back returns from an open file to its containing directory,
-then walks to the parent directory until the root; at the root it returns to the
-session. The `..` row remains as the visible, tappable form of the same directory
-movement. An editor with unsaved changes asks before either route discards them.
-"Back returns; it does not exit."
+costs nothing. From an open file, both the header's back button and Android back
+return to its containing directory. From a directory, the header's back button
+clears `files` and returns to the session, while Android back walks to the parent
+directory until the root and only then returns to the session. The `..` row
+remains as the visible, tappable form of the same directory movement. An editor
+with unsaved changes asks before either route discards them. "Back returns; it
+does not exit."
 
 Rejected: a `Screen.Files` beside `Screen.Session`. Every route back from a
 leaf screen goes to Main today, and a session disposed and re-created on each
diff --git a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/FilesScreen.kt b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/FilesScreen.kt
index 5a76caf..eda917e 100644
--- a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/FilesScreen.kt
+++ b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/FilesScreen.kt
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ private enum class UnsavedDestination {
  * The files on the machine a session runs on: browse them, read one, change one.
  *
  * Drawn **over** the session rather than instead of it (see [AppRoot]), so its event stream keeps
- * flowing and coming back from a file costs nothing. Android back returns from a file to its
- * directory, then walks up the directory tree. The header's back button closes the explorer and
- * returns directly to the session.
+ * flowing and coming back from a file costs nothing. Both back controls return from a file to its
+ * directory. In a directory, Android back walks up the directory tree while the header's back
+ * button closes the explorer and returns to the session.
  *
  * Every directory that has been visited is kept for as long as this is open; the refresh glyph is
  * how one gets asked again on purpose, and creating something refetches the directory it was
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ fun FilesScreen(settings: ServerSettings, target: FilesTarget, onClose: () -> Un
                         editing = editing,
                         onEditing = { editing = it },
                         onDirty = { dirty = it },
-                        onBack = { leave(UnsavedDestination.Session) },
+                        onBack = { leave(UnsavedDestination.Directory) },
                     )
             }
         }