diff --git a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/TranscriptScroll.kt b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/TranscriptScroll.kt
index 2e281e0..7888c39 100644
--- a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/TranscriptScroll.kt
+++ b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/TranscriptScroll.kt
@@ -262,7 +262,10 @@ fun TranscriptColumn(
             .fillMaxWidth()
             // Once for the whole list, not once per row: this is where a saved position is put
             // back, and by placement the scroll container's own measurements describe this layout.
-            .onPlaced { state.placed() }
+            // Only while there is a position waiting to be put back. `onPlaced` is the one hook
+            // here that would otherwise run on every frame, and it has nothing to do on all but
+            // the two frames of a restore.
+            .then(if (state.settling) Modifier.onPlaced { state.placed() } else Modifier)
             // One gesture detector for the whole list; see [TranscriptScroll.tappedHigh]. On the
             // initial pass and consuming nothing, so every control inside still gets the gesture
             // exactly as it would have.