diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/DirectGLES.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/DirectGLES.cpp
index 9464fa48..c4c838ea 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/DirectGLES.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/DirectGLES.cpp
@@ -17110,7 +17110,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
         tuple->Read = EGL_NO_SURFACE;
         g_nativeRegistryEpoch.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_acq_rel);
         if (g_displayUsers > 0) --g_displayUsers;
-        if (g_displayUsers == 0 && g_Display != EGL_NO_DISPLAY && g_EGLFuncs.eglTerminate) {
+        // NOT WHILE A SESSION STILL HOLDS SURFACES. eglTerminate destroys them with the display, and
+        // the session keeps naming them: the next context made current on one (an application that
+        // destroys its only context and creates another on the same surface, as eglinfo does with
+        // its surfaceless stand-in) bound a surface the driver no longer had. The session's own
+        // teardown terminates the display once its surfaces are gone (DestroyNativeStateOfSession).
+        Bool surfacesRemain = false;
+        for (const auto* session : NativeSessions()) surfacesRemain = surfacesRemain || !session->Surfaces.empty();
+        if (g_displayUsers == 0 && !surfacesRemain && g_Display != EGL_NO_DISPLAY && g_EGLFuncs.eglTerminate) {
             g_EGLFuncs.eglTerminate(g_Display);
             NoteDisplayTerminated();
             g_Display = EGL_NO_DISPLAY;
@@ -17139,9 +17146,11 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
         // surface drew one window's frame into the other.
         NativeSessionState& session = ActiveNativeSession();
         // Nothing to make it current on yet: a context bound for the records of its own creation
-        // (EGLImpl's CreateContext) before the session has any surface. Its first make-current
-        // gives it one.
-        if (tuple.Draw == EGL_NO_SURFACE && session.Draw == EGL_NO_SURFACE) return true;
+        // (EGLImpl's CreateContext), which no make-current has given a surface (or whose surface
+        // is gone). Binding it to whichever surface the session holds would hand it another
+        // context's surface - one the driver may not even have any more. Its first make-current
+        // binds it natively.
+        if (tuple.Draw == EGL_NO_SURFACE) return true;
         if (tuple.Draw != session.Draw && SessionOwnsSurface(session, tuple.Draw)) {
             session.Draw = tuple.Draw;
             session.Read = SessionOwnsSurface(session, tuple.Read) ? tuple.Read : tuple.Draw;
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Impl/EGLImpl/EGLImpl.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Impl/EGLImpl/EGLImpl.cpp
index 00f3b7d7..094f0399 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Impl/EGLImpl/EGLImpl.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Impl/EGLImpl/EGLImpl.cpp
@@ -938,6 +938,9 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Impl::EGLImpl {
         // knows it. Read here because `state->MakeCurrent` below has already committed the
         // new one by the time the emission points are reached.
         const Uint64 oldContextToken = state->GetContextClientToken(oldContext);
+        // Read before the release too: a thread letting go of a context lost with an ended session
+        // says nothing to the fresh one (its binding never named that context).
+        const Bool oldContextLost = ContextIsLost(state, oldContext);
 #endif
         const String threadId = CurrentThreadIdString();
 
@@ -981,7 +984,11 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Impl::EGLImpl {
             }
             MGLOG_D("eglMakeCurrent release succeeded thread=%s", threadId.c_str());
 #if MOBILEGL_BUILD_DISAGGREGATED
-            EmitContextBinding(state, EGL_NO_CONTEXT, oldContextToken);
+            {
+                std::optional<ClientSession::ScopedWireMute> silence;
+                if (oldContextLost) silence.emplace();
+                EmitContextBinding(state, EGL_NO_CONTEXT, oldContextToken);
+            }
 #endif
             return EGL_TRUE;
         }