diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/chat/vojo/app/IncomingCallActivity.java b/android/app/src/main/java/chat/vojo/app/IncomingCallActivity.java
index 137f2d24..69b87961 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/java/chat/vojo/app/IncomingCallActivity.java
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/chat/vojo/app/IncomingCallActivity.java
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ public class IncomingCallActivity extends Activity {
         // made "slide to answer" indistinguishable from a twitch. dp(88) ≈ a disc
         // diameter of climb. needsDevice: tune one-handed reach on a tall phone.
         final float commitDistance = Math.max(touchSlop * 4f, dp(88f));
+        // The disc rides a BOUNDED track. trackMax caps how far up it can follow the
+        // finger (progress p already saturates at the commit point, so chasing the
+        // finger further just slides the disc off into empty screen); lateralMax
+        // keeps the slide on its vertical rail. Without these the disc trails the
+        // finger 1:1 across the whole screen.
+        final float trackMax = commitDistance;
+        final float lateralMax = dp(24f);
         return new View.OnTouchListener() {
             private float downX;
             private float downY;
@@ -279,10 +286,11 @@ public class IncomingCallActivity extends Activity {
                         if (dragging) {
                             float up = -dy; // upward = positive progress
                             float p = (float) Math.min(1.0, Math.max(0.0, up / commitDistance));
-                            // Track the finger UP its rail: a little lateral follow,
-                            // but the disc never travels downward (down = no commit).
-                            disc.setTranslationX(0.15f * dx);
-                            disc.setTranslationY(Math.min(0f, dy));
+                            // Follow the finger UP its rail, clamped to the track: the
+                            // disc never travels downward and never past trackMax, with
+                            // only a small clamped lateral give.
+                            disc.setTranslationX(Math.max(-lateralMax, Math.min(lateralMax, 0.15f * dx)));
+                            disc.setTranslationY(-Math.min(Math.max(up, 0f), trackMax));
                             applyProgressVisuals(disc, glow, decline, p);
                             hapticLadder(disc, p);
                         }
@@ -327,6 +335,10 @@ public class IncomingCallActivity extends Activity {
             float gs = 0.58f + 0.42f * p; // peak 1.0 (the 124dp glow already covers the disc)
             glow.setScaleX(gs);
             glow.setScaleY(gs);
+            // Keep the halo glued behind the moving disc — otherwise it blooms at the
+            // rest position while the disc slides up and away, decoupling the two.
+            glow.setTranslationX(disc.getTranslationX());
+            glow.setTranslationY(disc.getTranslationY());
         }
         if (decline != null) {
             // The screen "takes a side": the decline disc recedes as answer climbs.
@@ -381,6 +393,7 @@ public class IncomingCallActivity extends Activity {
         }
         if (glow != null) {
             glow.animate().alpha(0f).scaleX(0.58f).scaleY(0.58f)
+                .translationX(0f).translationY(0f)
                 .setInterpolator(new DecelerateInterpolator())
                 .setDuration(dur + 60)
                 .start();
diff --git a/android/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_incoming_call.xml b/android/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_incoming_call.xml
index ac4083fe..1285198c 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_incoming_call.xml
+++ b/android/app/src/main/res/layout/activity_incoming_call.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
     android:gravity="center_horizontal"
     android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
     android:paddingStart="24dp"
-    android:paddingEnd="24dp">
+    android:paddingEnd="24dp"
+    android:clipChildren="false"
+    android:clipToPadding="false">
 
     <Space
         android:layout_width="0dp"
@@ -19,10 +21,12 @@
         android:layout_weight="1.1" />
 
     <!-- Avatar disc (caller initial, set in code) behind a breathing halo. Sized
-         124dp to match the over-lock hero avatar so answer-from-lock doesn't pop. -->
+         124dp to match the over-lock hero avatar so answer-from-lock doesn't pop.
+         clipChildren=false so the pulsing halo can bloom past the 160dp box. -->
     <FrameLayout
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
-        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
+        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+        android:clipChildren="false">
 
         <View
             android:id="@+id/call_avatar_halo"
@@ -72,12 +76,18 @@
         android:layout_height="0dp"
         android:layout_weight="2" />
 
+    <!-- clipChildren/clipToPadding=false so the answer disc can slide UP out of the
+         action row (and the column + FrameLayout below) without being clipped at a
+         container edge — otherwise the dragged disc vanishes behind the 124dp glow
+         box. The whole ancestor chain to the root must opt out. -->
     <LinearLayout
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:orientation="horizontal"
         android:paddingBottom="56dp"
-        android:weightSum="2">
+        android:weightSum="2"
+        android:clipChildren="false"
+        android:clipToPadding="false">
 
         <!-- Decline -->
         <LinearLayout
@@ -127,7 +137,8 @@
             android:layout_height="wrap_content"
             android:layout_weight="1"
             android:orientation="vertical"
-            android:gravity="center">
+            android:gravity="center"
+            android:clipChildren="false">
 
             <ImageView
                 android:id="@+id/answer_hint"
@@ -140,7 +151,8 @@
 
             <FrameLayout
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
-                android:layout_height="wrap_content">
+                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
+                android:clipChildren="false">
 
                 <View
                     android:id="@+id/answer_glow"