The real 'false start': the auto-select-Spending one-shot yanking the card back. On open, when Savings is empty and Ark has a balance, the wallet flips you to Spending — a convenience. But it fires on every Ark update and only latches once the balance SYNCS, which after a refresh arrives a second late — right after you've dragged to Savings, so it overrides your choice and slides back. Now any deliberate pick (carousel scroll/tap/flick, swipe, accounts screen) sets accountUserChosen, and the auto-select consumes its one-shot without flipping when you've already chosen

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MrkLsNScXe9b6BviUSdmMr

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/features/ark.js b/src/features/ark.js
index a421dfb..30ecd51 100644
--- a/src/features/ark.js
+++ b/src/features/ark.js
@@ -496,6 +496,13 @@ export function arkFeature(ctx) {
   let _autoSelected = false;
   function maybeAutoSelectSpending() {
     if (_autoSelected || wallet.watchOnly) return;
+    // The user beat us to it: they've already scrolled/tapped/flicked to an
+    // account this session. The "open onto Spending when Savings is empty"
+    // convenience only applies to the UNTOUCHED open — arriving late (when
+    // the ark balance finally syncs, a second after a refresh) and yanking
+    // the card away from the one they just chose is the exact opposite of
+    // convenient. Consume the one-shot so it can't fire behind them.
+    if (ui.accountUserChosen) { _autoSelected = true; return; }
     const b = arkBalance();
     if (!b || b.spendableSat + b.pendingSat <= 0) return;
     _autoSelected = true;
@@ -2767,7 +2774,7 @@ export function arkFeature(ctx) {
 
   return {
     id: 'ark',
-    init() { _autoSelected = false; initArk(); },
+    init() { _autoSelected = false; ui.accountUserChosen = false; initArk(); },
     stop() { stopArk(); },
     screenView() { return ui.arkCoinsPage ? arkCoinsPage() : ui.arkExitPage ? arkExitPage() : null; },
     receiveTakeover() {