diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionsView.swift b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionsView.swift
index 4389191..9772ef6 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionsView.swift
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Views/SessionsView.swift
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ struct SessionsView: View {
             .navigationTitle("Sessions")
             .navigationDestination(for: SessionID.self) { id in
                 SessionDetailView(sessionID: id)
+                    // Native-tab-bar experiment: hide the system bar on the pushed detail so the
+                    // full-bleed chat owns the bottom edge. Whether it restores smoothly on pop-back
+                    // (vs. the old ~1s un-animated snap) is exactly what we're testing here.
+                    .toolbar(.hidden, for: .tabBar)
             }
             // Offline UI previews (with NUCLEIC_DEMO): jump straight into one session.
             .onAppear {