diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/MainActivity.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/MainActivity.kt
index 30779b51bdfb..70f96a9327fe 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/MainActivity.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/MainActivity.kt
@@ -177,7 +177,13 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), MenuProvider {
             WindowInsetsCompat.CONSUMED
         }
 
-        title = ""
+        // nothing lives in the toolbar any more - the landing screen has its own header and the
+        // document its buttons - so the bar would just be an empty strip of colour. Hiding it
+        // rather than moving to a .NoActionBar theme keeps it as the host the action modes are
+        // raised in: appcompat shows the container again for as long as one is up, and takes it
+        // back down afterwards, so find, tts and edit still get their bar without the app
+        // having to put one on screen itself.
+        supportActionBar?.hide()
 
         onBackPressedDispatcher.addCallback(this, backCallback)
 
@@ -480,8 +486,6 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), MenuProvider {
                         WindowInsetsControllerCompat.BEHAVIOR_SHOW_TRANSIENT_BARS_BY_SWIPE
                     insetsController.hide(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.statusBars())
 
-                    supportActionBar?.hide()
-
                     // delay offer to wait for fullscreen animation to finish
                     handler.postDelayed(
                         {
@@ -591,8 +595,6 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), MenuProvider {
             return
         }
 
-        supportActionBar?.show()
-
         WindowCompat.getInsetsController(window, window.decorView)
             .show(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.statusBars())
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/themes.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/themes.xml
index 25eb44bca7b9..0dec01cdbb63 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/themes.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/themes.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,13 @@
         have to add what is specific to them. Copying the whole theme per qualifier is what let
         the colours drift apart before.
 
-        Not a .NoActionBar variant: there is no Toolbar view anywhere, the app relies on the
-        default ActionBar and drives it through supportActionBar / startSupportActionMode.
+        Not a .NoActionBar variant, even though no screen puts anything in the bar any more:
+        the ActionBar's container is what startSupportActionMode() raises find, tts and edit
+        in, and appcompat only shows it for as long as one of them is up. MainActivity hides
+        the bar itself on start, so the container is off screen the rest of the time and the
+        window inset math stays the one ActionBarOverlayLayout does - which a NoActionBar
+        theme would swap for a decor that pads itself, on top of the padding MainActivity
+        applies.
     -->
     <style name="Base.MainTheme" parent="Theme.Material3.DayNight">
         <item name="colorPrimary">@color/md_primary</item>