diff --git a/apps/chanora_flutter/lib/main.dart b/apps/chanora_flutter/lib/main.dart
index 21b3c74..4eeb489 100644
--- a/apps/chanora_flutter/lib/main.dart
+++ b/apps/chanora_flutter/lib/main.dart
@@ -1267,12 +1267,38 @@ class _ConnectFormState extends State<_ConnectForm> {
   final FocusNode _passwordFocus = FocusNode();
 
   Widget _focusOnTap(Widget child, FocusNode node) {
+    // iOS first-tap-not-focusing workaround.
+    //
+    // Symptom: the user taps a TextField the first time after the
+    // app launches (or after the field has not held focus this
+    // session); the cursor doesn't appear and the on-screen keyboard
+    // doesn't slide up. A second tap then works normally.
+    //
+    // Root cause: Flutter's EditableText opens the platform
+    // TextInput channel (which is what actually slides the iOS
+    // keyboard up) only after a TapGestureRecognizer **wins** the
+    // gesture arena. Our outer Listener (HitTestBehavior.translucent,
+    // onPointerDown) used to call node.requestFocus() pre-arena,
+    // which marks the node focused in Flutter's tree but does not
+    // open the TextInput channel \u2014 so the OS keyboard stays hidden
+    // until the EditableText's own tap recognizer wins on a second
+    // tap.
+    //
+    // Fix: in addition to requestFocus(), invoke 'TextInput.show'
+    // on the SystemChannels.textInput method channel. This is the
+    // same private RPC EditableText uses internally; calling it
+    // ourselves forces the OS keyboard up regardless of arena state.
+    // Belt-and-braces with the Listener guarantees keyboard-on-first-
+    // tap on iPhone / iPad and is harmless on Android (the platform
+    // ignores the redundant show call when the keyboard is already
+    // up) and on desktop (no soft keyboard exists).
     return Listener(
       behavior: HitTestBehavior.translucent,
       onPointerDown: (_) {
         if (!node.hasFocus) {
           node.requestFocus();
         }
+        SystemChannels.textInput.invokeMethod<void>('TextInput.show');
       },
       child: child,
     );