diff --git a/app/network/Main/MainView.swift b/app/network/Main/MainView.swift
index aca2cfba..b7fdc6c6 100644
--- a/app/network/Main/MainView.swift
+++ b/app/network/Main/MainView.swift
@@ -108,8 +108,24 @@ struct MainView: View {
         }
         .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
         .background(themeManager.currentTheme.backgroundColor)
-        // the Pro celebration over the whole app; sheets and covers host their own layer
-        .proCelebrationLayer()
+        // The celebration draws in its own clear overlay rather than wrapping
+        // this view. The pixelation is a RASTER-LAYER filter: SwiftUI has to
+        // render the filtered content into an offscreen layer, and content
+        // backed by UIKit -- which the tab view below is -- cannot go into
+        // one, so the whole subtree is replaced by the unsupported-view
+        // placeholder. Wrapping nothing keeps the confetti, which is plain
+        // SwiftUI, and costs only the mosaic over the root.
+        //
+        // allowsHitTesting is OUTSIDE the layer on purpose: Color.clear is
+        // hit-testable, so without it the app renders perfectly and ignores
+        // every touch -- a worse fault than the placeholder, and one a
+        // screenshot cannot show.
+        .overlay(
+            Color.clear
+                .proCelebrationLayer()
+                .allowsHitTesting(false)
+                .accessibilityHidden(true)
+        )
         .environmentObject(subscriptionBalanceViewModel)
         .environmentObject(subscriptionManager)
         .environmentObject(proCelebration)
diff --git a/app/network/Shared/Views/Introduction/IntroductionView.swift b/app/network/Shared/Views/Introduction/IntroductionView.swift
index 5a02f836..93aad929 100644
--- a/app/network/Shared/Views/Introduction/IntroductionView.swift
+++ b/app/network/Shared/Views/Introduction/IntroductionView.swift
@@ -230,8 +230,17 @@ struct IntroductionView: View {
         }
         .animation(.easeIn(duration: 0.25), value: subscriptionManager.purchaseSuccess)
         .animation(.easeIn(duration: 0.25), value: balanceCodeRedeemed)
-        // the celebration draws over the onboarding cover, which sits above the app root
-        .proCelebrationLayer()
+        // Over the onboarding cover, which sits above the app root. Same clear
+        // overlay as the root: the body below carries a NavigationStack, which
+        // is UIKit-backed on iOS and so cannot be rendered into the raster
+        // layer the pixelation needs. A fresh install is the first thing that
+        // hits this path.
+        .overlay(
+            Color.clear
+                .proCelebrationLayer()
+                .allowsHitTesting(false)
+                .accessibilityHidden(true)
+        )
         .onChange(of: deviceManager.isPro) { _ in
             celebrateIfConfirmed()
         }
diff --git a/app/network/Shared/Views/ProCelebration/ProCelebrationLayer.swift b/app/network/Shared/Views/ProCelebration/ProCelebrationLayer.swift
index be31b999..1a824b64 100644
--- a/app/network/Shared/Views/ProCelebration/ProCelebrationLayer.swift
+++ b/app/network/Shared/Views/ProCelebration/ProCelebrationLayer.swift
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@
 //  Hosts the Pro celebration over a view: while a flight is in the air the
 //  view's content is pixelated (a mosaic whose cell grows over the first
 //  5 s, holds while the confetti flies, and shrinks back over the 5 s after
-//  it) and the confetti draws above it, sharp. Idle, the layer adds nothing:
-//  no effect, no overlay.
+//  it) and the confetti draws above it, sharp. Idle, the layer draws nothing:
+//  the effect is attached but disabled, and there is no overlay. It is
+//  attached either way -- see ProPixelation -- which is why the wrapped
+//  content matters even when nothing is in the air.
 //
 //  The mosaic cell is an animated value: SwiftUI interpolates it, so the
 //  content under it is not re-rendered every frame (a tab view is UIKit
@@ -24,6 +26,14 @@ extension View {
     /// `ProCelebrationState` launches one. Apply at the app root and inside
     /// modal presentations (the upgrade sheet, the onboarding cover), which
     /// draw above the root.
+    ///
+    /// The wrapped content must be SwiftUI only. The pixelation is a
+    /// raster-layer filter and it stays attached while idle, so content backed
+    /// by UIKit -- a tab view, a NavigationStack, a UIViewRepresentable --
+    /// cannot be rendered into the filtered layer and the whole subtree is
+    /// replaced by the unsupported-view placeholder. Where the content is not
+    /// SwiftUI only, apply this to a clear overlay above it instead: the
+    /// confetti still draws, and only the mosaic is lost.
     func proCelebrationLayer() -> some View {
         modifier(ProCelebrationLayer())
     }