@@ -159,11 +159,18 @@ and honors it per panel; sampled mean luma over the whole frame:
 | no `--display` | 2006x2852 | 241.42 |
 
 `record start`/`record stop` exit 0 in both poses, and with `--hide-touches` the export keeps the
-captured geometry (`2006x2852`, mean luma 241.42). Without it, the touch-overlay exporter is broken
-for the inner panel's `rot90` track: it returns a `480x336` black video, and feeding an untouched
-raw `simctl` capture straight into `recording-overlay.swift` reproduces a `0x0` zero-duration
-output. That exporter defect is independent of panel selection — the same pipeline exports a
-non-rotated iPhone 17 recording intact (`1206x2622`, mean luma 228.30) — and is tracked separately.
+captured geometry (`2006x2852`, mean luma 241.42). Without it the touch-overlay exporter loses the
+track geometry, and on a long clip the frames too.
+
+The trigger is the overlay drawing touch events, not panel rotation. Measured on an iPhone 17
+(iOS 27.0), which has no rotated panel: four seconds with no interaction exports `1206x2622`
+intact, ten seconds containing two taps exports `220x480`, and the same two taps under
+`--hide-touches` export `1206x2622` with the screen content changing across frames. A 97-second
+recording with touches exported `480x220` at mean luma 0.00 throughout. An earlier draft of this
+section blamed the inner panel's `rot90` track, which was wrong: every failing sample then available
+had merely been captured on that panel, and the one non-rotated sample that looked intact had
+contained no touches to draw. Feeding an untouched raw `simctl` capture straight into
+`recording-overlay.swift` reproduces a `0x0` zero-duration output. Tracked in #2707.
 
 ## Verified on a booted Duo
 
 
@@ -70,9 +70,12 @@ toolchain per command:
   capturable — a capture of the dark panel exits 0 and writes an all-black PNG.
 - Pose is not scriptable. Ask the operator to fold or open the device in Device Hub, then
   re-snapshot; refs and coordinates do not survive the pose change.
-- Record a foldable with `record start --hide-touches`. The touch-overlay exporter returns a small
-  all-black video for the inner panel's `rot90` track, which reads as a capture failure but is not
-  one; the raw `simctl` capture behind it is correct. See ADR 0025.
+- When a recording must show touches, assume it cannot. The touch-overlay exporter loses the track
+  geometry whenever it has touch events to draw — `220x480` on a plain iPhone 17 as well as on the
+  inner panel — and returns all-black frames on long clips, always with exit 0. Record with
+  `record start --hide-touches` and make the interaction legible through its on-screen effect
+  (typed text, navigation, a counter) instead of a cursor. The raw `simctl` capture behind it is
+  correct. See ADR 0025 and #2707.
 - An app must adopt the UIScene lifecycle to launch on iOS 27.1 at all: a legacy
   `UIApplicationDelegate` app traps at launch inside
   `___UIApplicationEvaluateRuntimeIssueForNoSceneLifecycleAdoption`, which reads like a broken