diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
index 84c5a794..3fd530ed 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
@@ -12943,6 +12943,7 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
                 source = ProcessOutColorLocations(source);
                 source = ForceFlatIntegerVaryings(source, glShaderType);
                 source = BroadcastLegacyFragColor(std::move(source), glShaderType, m_fragColorBroadcastCount);
+                source = LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookups(source, glShaderType);
                 source = EmulateTextureLodBias(source, ShouldAvoidExplicitLodBiasOnAngleLlvmpipe());
                 if (ClampsUnsignedMultisampleFetchesAtRuntime()) {
                     source = ClampUnsignedMultisampleFetches(source);
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.cpp
index e73a27c8..5fe82136 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.cpp
@@ -2057,6 +2057,56 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
             return result;
         }
 
+        String LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookups(const String& glslCode, GLenum shaderType) {
+#ifdef TRACY_ENABLE
+            ZoneScopedC(TRACY_ZONECOLOR_BACKEND);
+#endif
+            if (shaderType == GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER || glslCode.find("samplerCubeArrayShadow") == String::npos ||
+                glslCode.find("textureGrad") == String::npos) {
+                return glslCode;
+            }
+            // Every name declared with the type: uniforms, and the parameters of functions the
+            // sampler is passed to.
+            static const std::regex declRegex(R"(samplerCubeArrayShadow\s+([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*))");
+            UnorderedMap<String, Bool> names;
+            for (std::sregex_iterator it(glslCode.begin(), glslCode.end(), declRegex), end; it != end; ++it) {
+                names.emplace((*it)[1].str(), true);
+            }
+            if (names.empty()) return glslCode;
+
+            static constexpr const char* kName = "textureGrad";
+            static constexpr SizeT kNameLength = 11;
+            String result = glslCode;
+            Bool changed = false;
+            // Right to left, so an earlier call's offsets stay valid.
+            for (SizeT scan = result.rfind(kName); scan != String::npos;
+                 scan = scan == 0 ? String::npos : result.rfind(kName, scan - 1)) {
+                if (scan > 0 && IsIdentifierChar(result[scan - 1])) continue;
+                const SizeT openParen = result.find_first_not_of(" \t", scan + kNameLength);
+                if (openParen == String::npos || result[openParen] != '(') continue;
+                const Vector<SizeT> marks = SplitCallArguments(result, openParen);
+                // sampler, P, compare, dPdx, dPdy
+                if (marks.size() != 5) continue;
+                SizeT nameStart = result.find_first_not_of(" \t", openParen + 1);
+                SizeT nameEnd = nameStart;
+                while (nameEnd < marks[0] && IsIdentifierChar(result[nameEnd])) ++nameEnd;
+                if (names.find(result.substr(nameStart, nameEnd - nameStart)) == names.end()) continue;
+                const auto argument = [&](SizeT index) {
+                    const SizeT start = marks[index - 1] + 1;
+                    String text = result.substr(start, marks[index] - start);
+                    text.erase(std::remove_if(text.begin(), text.end(),
+                                              [](char c) { return c == ' ' || c == '\t'; }),
+                               text.end());
+                    return text;
+                };
+                if (argument(3) != "vec3(0.0)" || argument(4) != "vec3(0.0)") continue;
+                result.erase(marks[2], marks[4] - marks[2]);
+                result.replace(scan, kNameLength, "texture");
+                changed = true;
+            }
+            return changed ? result : glslCode;
+        }
+
         String ClampUnsignedMultisampleFetches(const String& glslCode) {
 #ifdef TRACY_ENABLE
             ZoneScopedC(TRACY_ZONECOLOR_BACKEND);
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.h b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.h
index 6248c4e3..d214d62e 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.h
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Utils.h
@@ -576,6 +576,15 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
         // Off by default and only ever set on ANGLE + llvmpipe, where injecting the uniform
         // into a constant LOD crashes the driver (MOBILEGL_ESPRYT_AVOID_EXPLICIT_LOD_BIAS).
         String EmulateTextureLodBias(const String& glslCode, Bool avoidExplicitLodBias = false);
+        // A depth-compare lookup at an explicit LOD of 0 on a samplerCubeArrayShadow - what
+        // texture() is outside the fragment stage - has no GLSL ES spelling: there is no
+        // textureLod or textureGrad overload for that sampler. SPIRV-Cross prints it as
+        // textureGrad(s, P, compare, vec3(0.0), vec3(0.0)) anyway; Adreno compiles that and
+        // returns wrong comparisons (KHR-GL4x.texture_cube_map_array.sampling, DEPTH32F, vertex/
+        // tessellation control/geometry/compute). Outside the fragment stage texture(s, P,
+        // compare) samples level 0 exactly (GLSL ES 3.20 8.9), so those calls are rewritten to
+        // it. The fragment stage is left alone: there texture() would pick its own level.
+        String LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookups(const String& glslCode, GLenum shaderType);
         // Prefix of the per-sampler int uniform that carries the bound multisample texture's
         // last real sample index into the shader (see ClampUnsignedMultisampleFetches); the
         // suffix is the sampler's own name.
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Test/Backend/DirectGLES/EsslShaderPassTest.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Test/Backend/DirectGLES/EsslShaderPassTest.cpp
index 938fce30..f4ef6301 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Test/Backend/DirectGLES/EsslShaderPassTest.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Test/Backend/DirectGLES/EsslShaderPassTest.cpp
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::IMAGE_SPLIT_READ_ALIAS_PREFI
 using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::IMAGE_WRITE_ALIAS_PREFIX;
 using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::IMAGE_WRITEONLY_ALIAS_PREFIX;
 using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::ImageArrayUnitPlan;
+using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookups;
 using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::RedeclareClipCullDistancesInPerVertexBlock;
 using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::RedeclareClipCullDistanceInputsInPerVertexBlock;
 using MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES::PrgramImpl::RemapImageArrayElementUnits;
@@ -1848,3 +1849,57 @@ void main() {
     }
     EXPECT_EQ(CountOf(out, "uniform highp int mg_msSampleMax_stencilTex;"), 1u) << out;
 }
+
+// End to end: texture() on a samplerCubeArrayShadow outside the fragment stage is an explicit
+// LOD 0 lookup in SPIR-V, which SPIRV-Cross prints as a textureGrad overload GLSL ES does not
+// have (KHR-GL4x.texture_cube_map_array.sampling). The pass turns it back into texture(), which
+// is level 0 in that stage.
+TEST(LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookupsTest, RestoresTextureOutsideTheFragmentStage) {
+    using namespace MG_Util::ShaderTranspiler;
+    MobileGL::Initialize();
+    const char* vertexSource = R"(#version 450 core
+uniform samplerCubeArrayShadow depthTex[2];
+uniform samplerCubeArrayShadow single;
+uniform vec4 coord;
+out float result;
+float lookup(samplerCubeArrayShadow s, vec4 p) { return texture(s, p, 0.5); }
+void main() {
+    result = texture(depthTex[1], coord, 0.25) + texture(single, coord, 0.75) + lookup(single, coord);
+    gl_Position = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
+}
+)";
+    const char* fragmentSource = R"(#version 450 core
+in float result;
+out vec4 color;
+void main() { color = vec4(result); }
+)";
+    Vector<SharedPtr<glslang::TShader>> shaders;
+    const Vector<Pair<GLenum, const char*>> stages{{GL_VERTEX_SHADER, vertexSource},
+                                                   {GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER, fragmentSource}};
+    for (const auto& [stage, text] : stages) {
+        ShaderAttrib attrib{.shaderType = stage, .sourceStr = text};
+        auto compiled = ShaderCompiler::CompileShader(attrib);
+        ASSERT_TRUE(compiled) << compiled.error().log;
+        shaders.push_back(compiled.value());
+    }
+    ProgramAttrib programAttrib{.shaders = shaders};
+    auto program = ShaderCompiler::LinkProgram(programAttrib);
+    ASSERT_TRUE(program) << program.error().log;
+    ProgramBinaryAttrib binaryAttrib{.shaderTypes = {GL_VERTEX_SHADER, GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER},
+                                     .program = *program.value()};
+    auto modules = ShaderCompiler::GetSpirvBinaryFromProgram(binaryAttrib);
+    ASSERT_TRUE(modules) << modules.error().log;
+    SpvcSession session(modules.value()[0], SessionUsageBit::Transpile);
+    auto essl = ShaderCompiler::DecompileShader(session);
+    ASSERT_TRUE(essl) << essl.error().log;
+    ASSERT_EQ(CountOf(essl.value(), "vec3(0.0), vec3(0.0))"), 3u) << essl.value();
+
+    const String out = LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookups(essl.value(), GL_VERTEX_SHADER);
+    EXPECT_FALSE(Contains(out, "textureGrad")) << out;
+    EXPECT_EQ(CountOf(out, "texture("), 3u) << out;
+    EXPECT_EQ(LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookups(essl.value(), GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER), essl.value());
+
+    const String other = "#version 320 es\nuniform highp samplerCube c;\n"
+                         "void main() { highp vec4 v = textureGrad(c, vec3(1.0), vec3(0.0), vec3(0.0)); }\n";
+    EXPECT_EQ(LowerZeroGradCubeArrayShadowLookups(other, GL_VERTEX_SHADER), other);
+}