diff --git a/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index a3e159b..9bcbaa5 100644
--- a/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -295,18 +295,25 @@
         <!-- The screen saver's settings, opened by the gear beside it in the
              system's screen saver list. Exported because only an exported
              activity can be started by the Settings app; it reads no extras
-             and changes nothing a user could not change in-app. -->
+             and changes nothing a user could not change in-app. A task of its
+             own and out of recents, so opening it from Settings never lands
+             in, or clears, the app's own task. -->
         <activity
             android:name=".ui.screensaver.ScreenSaverSettingsActivity"
             android:exported="true"
+            android:excludeFromRecents="true"
             android:label="@string/screen_saver_title"
+            android:taskAffinity=""
             android:theme="@style/Theme.Clockula" />
 
         <!-- The same screen saver on demand, from the tabs' overflow menu: an
-             app cannot start the system's dream itself. Not exported. -->
+             app cannot start the system's dream itself. Not exported, and
+             no history: leaving it by Home or Recents finishes it, so the app
+             never comes back to a dim screen saver instead of its tabs. -->
         <activity
             android:name=".ui.screensaver.ScreenSaverActivity"
             android:exported="false"
+            android:noHistory="true"
             android:theme="@style/Theme.Clockula.ScreenSaver" />
 
         <!-- Persists the per-app language on API < 33, where the platform
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverActivity.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverActivity.kt
index 763e5f2..bd302c2 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverActivity.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverActivity.kt
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ class ScreenSaverActivity : ComponentActivity() {
         override fun onReceive(context: Context, intent: Intent) = applyKeepScreenOn(intent)
     }
 
+    /** The flag last applied; null until the first battery state. Changing a window flag costs a relayout, and the battery reports far more often than the plug changes. */
+    private var keepingScreenOn: Boolean? = null
+
     override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
         setShowWhenLocked(true)
@@ -79,6 +82,8 @@ class ScreenSaverActivity : ComponentActivity() {
 
     private fun applyKeepScreenOn(battery: Intent) {
         val charging = battery.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_PLUGGED, 0) != 0
+        if (charging == keepingScreenOn) return
+        keepingScreenOn = charging
         if (charging) {
             window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON)
         } else {
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverContent.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverContent.kt
index 58fa9d6..1b5a0e5 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverContent.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverContent.kt
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ import kotlin.math.roundToInt
  * world clock's dial — the date and the next alarm, on black, at a spot that
  * moves once a minute ([ScreenSaverDrift]) so nothing stays lit in one place.
  * The move is a slow crossfade rather than a slide, as DeskClock's is, and
- * a cut under reduce motion.
+ * a cut under reduce motion: the old minute fades out where it was as the
+ * new one fades in at its new spot.
  */
 @Composable
 internal fun ScreenSaverContent(state: ScreenSaverUiState, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
@@ -75,11 +76,11 @@ internal fun ScreenSaverContent(state: ScreenSaverUiState, modifier: Modifier =
         // landscape on a bedside dock as it is upright in the hand.
         val side = minOf(maxWidth, maxHeight)
         Crossfade(
-            targetState = state.position,
+            targetState = state,
             animationSpec = if (reduceMotion) snap() else tween(ScreenSaverDefaults.MOVE_MILLIS),
             label = "drift",
-        ) { position ->
-            Drifting(position) { Clock(state, side) }
+        ) { shown ->
+            Drifting(shown.position) { Clock(shown, side) }
         }
     }
 }
@@ -179,7 +180,8 @@ private fun AnalogTime(time: LocalTime, use24Hour: Boolean, locale: Locale, side
 
 @Composable
 private fun NextAlarm(model: NextAlarmWidgetModel, now: LocalDateTime, use24Hour: Boolean, locale: Locale) {
-    val label = remember(model, now.toLocalDate(), use24Hour, locale) { nextAlarmLabel(model, now, use24Hour, locale) }
+    val (day, time) = remember(model, now.toLocalDate(), use24Hour, locale) { nextAlarmParts(model, now, use24Hour, locale) }
+    val label = stringResource(R.string.screen_saver_next_alarm_when, day, time)
     val description = stringResource(R.string.screen_saver_next_alarm, label)
     Row(
         verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
@@ -235,16 +237,17 @@ private fun dateLabel(now: LocalDateTime, locale: Locale): String =
 
 /**
  * The next alarm as the platform's own screen saver writes it: the short
- * weekday and the time, "Tue 7:00 AM", laid out in the locale's own order.
- * The weekday is always there, so a time alone can never be read as today's,
- * and an alarm a week or more away carries its date too
- * ([ScreenSaverAlarmDay]), "Thu, Oct 29, 7:00 AM".
+ * weekday and the time, "Tue 7:00 AM". The weekday is always there, so a
+ * time alone can never be read as today's, and an alarm a week or more away
+ * carries its date too ([ScreenSaverAlarmDay]), "Thu, Oct 29 7:00 AM". The
+ * time follows the app's one 12/24-hour rule, like the big readout above it;
+ * the two are joined by a translatable string, so a language can reorder them.
  */
-private fun nextAlarmLabel(model: NextAlarmWidgetModel, now: LocalDateTime, use24Hour: Boolean, locale: Locale): String {
-    val date = model.date ?: return ""
-    val day = if (ScreenSaverAlarmDay.weekdayIsEnough(date, now.toLocalDate())) "EEE" else "EEEMMMd"
-    val time = if (use24Hour) "HHmm" else "hmma"
-    return localizedDateFormatter(locale, day + time).format(date.atTime(model.hour, model.minute))
+private fun nextAlarmParts(model: NextAlarmWidgetModel, now: LocalDateTime, use24Hour: Boolean, locale: Locale): Pair<String, String> {
+    val date = model.date ?: now.toLocalDate()
+    val skeleton = if (ScreenSaverAlarmDay.weekdayIsEnough(date, now.toLocalDate())) "EEE" else "EEEMMMd"
+    return localizedDateFormatter(locale, skeleton).format(date) to
+        timeFormatter(use24Hour, locale).format(LocalTime.of(model.hour, model.minute))
 }
 
 private object ScreenSaverDefaults {
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverSettingsActivity.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverSettingsActivity.kt
index 72be824..6d68caf 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverSettingsActivity.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/screensaver/ScreenSaverSettingsActivity.kt
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 package de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.ui.screensaver
 
+import android.graphics.Color
 import android.os.Bundle
 import androidx.activity.ComponentActivity
+import androidx.activity.SystemBarStyle
 import androidx.activity.compose.setContent
 import androidx.activity.enableEdgeToEdge
 import androidx.compose.foundation.isSystemInDarkTheme
+import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.res.stringResource
 import androidx.lifecycle.compose.collectAsStateWithLifecycle
@@ -33,13 +36,18 @@ class ScreenSaverSettingsActivity : ComponentActivity() {
 
     override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
-        enableEdgeToEdge()
         setContent {
             val appearance by settingsPrefs.appearance.collectAsStateWithLifecycle(initialValue = Appearance())
-            ClockulaTheme(
-                darkTheme = appearance.themeMode.isDark(isSystemInDarkTheme()),
-                dynamicColor = appearance.dynamicColor,
-            ) {
+            val darkTheme = appearance.themeMode.isDark(isSystemInDarkTheme())
+            // The bars follow the app's resolved theme, not the device's
+            // night flag, as MainActivity's do.
+            LaunchedEffect(darkTheme) {
+                enableEdgeToEdge(
+                    statusBarStyle = SystemBarStyle.auto(Color.TRANSPARENT, Color.TRANSPARENT) { darkTheme },
+                    navigationBarStyle = SystemBarStyle.auto(Color.TRANSPARENT, Color.TRANSPARENT) { darkTheme },
+                )
+            }
+            ClockulaTheme(darkTheme = darkTheme, dynamicColor = appearance.dynamicColor) {
                 CollapsingScaffold(title = stringResource(R.string.screen_saver_title), onBack = ::finish) {
                     ScreenSaverSettingsSection(inApp = false)
                 }
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index ca234b8..7c8fa44 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -315,6 +315,8 @@
     <string name="screen_saver_system_settings_hint">Pick Clockula as the screen saver in Android\'s settings</string>
     <!-- Read by a screen reader for the alarm line on the screen saver; %1$s is the day and time, "Tue 7:00 AM". -->
     <string name="screen_saver_next_alarm">Next alarm: %1$s</string>
+    <!-- The screen saver's next-alarm line: %1$s is the day ("Tue", or "Thu, Oct 29" a week or more away), %2$s the time ("7:00 AM"). -->
+    <string name="screen_saver_next_alarm_when">%1$s %2$s</string>
     <string name="menu_more_options">More options</string>
     <string name="settings_self_check">Why might my alarm not ring?</string>
     <string name="settings_self_check_title">Why might my alarm not ring?</string>
diff --git a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 800dc31..057619a 100644
--- a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ kit module: the kit's roadmap keeps schedulers app-local.
 | `domain/format/` | `ClockFormat` (`M:SS` / `H:MM:SS`, countdowns rounded up, elapsed truncated), `NextFire` (`NextFireLabel` + `NextFireFormat`), the alarm row's "in 9h 12m" as data, and `StopwatchFormat`, the hundredths readout, split into a major field and two digits so the fraction can be drawn smaller |
 | `domain/backup/` | `BackupContent` (M10): the plain Kotlin model between `data/backup`'s JSON codec and the repository/engine; decoupled from the wire DTOs the same way the data layer is decoupled from Room |
 | `domain/selfcheck/` | `SelfCheck` (M10): the "why might my alarm not ring?" rule table: pure functions over a `DeviceState` snapshot, each producing a `CheckResult` with a status and an optional deep-link `SelfCheckFix` |
-| `domain/screensaver/` | the screen saver's pure half (issue #25): `ScreenSaverSettings` (style and night mode) and `ScreenSaverDrift`, the once-a-minute burn-in position as fractions of the free space, derived from the minute alone |
+| `domain/screensaver/` | the screen saver's pure half (issue #25): `ScreenSaverSettings` (style and night mode), `ScreenSaverDrift`, the once-a-minute burn-in position as fractions of the free space, derived from the minute alone, and `ScreenSaverAlarmDay`, which dates a next alarm a week or more away rather than naming its weekday alone |
 | `domain/widget/` | the three widget presenters (M10), `NextAlarmWidgetModel`/`TimerWidgetModel`/`ClockWidgetModel`: selection and formatting only, so a widget's content is unit-tested without Glance |
 | `data/db/` | `ClockulaDatabase` (`@Database` v3, `exportSchema = true`) and `Migrations` |
 | `data/alarms/` | the alarm and ring-state entities, DAOs, mappers and repositories |