diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 87510e7..b884b6d 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -1462,6 +1462,32 @@ vary) wins, ours being told from theirs by **identity** rather than
 that ends the gesture is swallowed, keyed on the gesture rather than on
 a time window so the first tap on the menu it opened is not eaten too.
 
+**A control revealed by `:hover` is gated on the device having hover,
+and which way round depends on whether it is the only route to its
+action.** The gate itself is not optional: a touch long-press
+synthesises a hover state in the WebView, so every one of these flashed
+into view during the 500 ms hold above — a control appearing because
+the user was reaching for a different one. Where the action is reachable
+another way the control is **absent** on a touch device (the home card's
+play button, #68; the queue row's remove, which the row's bottom-sheet
+menu carries since #60), and that is `display: none` outside
+`(hover: hover) and (pointer: fine)` rather than `opacity: 0` or
+`visibility: hidden`, both of which leave a button holding its hit area
+and its place in the accessibility tree. Where the control is the
+**only** route it is instead always visible under
+`@media not all and (hover: hover)` — `track-details`'s cover-art
+overlay and remove, `shortcut-capture`'s reset (#137) — because hiding
+it takes the action away entirely.
+
+One thing to know before checking either: **no tier here can render as a
+touch device.** CDP's `Emulation.setEmulatedMedia` does not reach the
+component tier's iframe, and the e2e projects are Desktop Chrome and
+Desktop Safari, neither of which has touch. So
+`hover-affordance.test.ts` asserts the *parsed stylesheet* — which rule
+sits inside which media query — and says so; the regression it exists
+for is someone hoisting a rule out of its query as a tidy-up, which
+nothing on a desktop renders differently.
+
 Three lists had no focused row to open a menu *from* — the queue panel
 and both playlist detail views — and gained a roving tab stop through
 `utils/roving-rows.ts`. **`track-list` deliberately does not use it**:
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/config-page/shortcut-capture.ts b/frontend/src/components/config-page/shortcut-capture.ts
index f840bab..96774fe 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/config-page/shortcut-capture.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/config-page/shortcut-capture.ts
@@ -79,6 +79,17 @@ export class ShortcutCapture extends LitElement {
         .reset-btn:hover {
             color: var(--yj-accent-text, #ffd43b);
         }
+        /*
+         * Reset is the only way to put a rebound shortcut back, so where
+         * the device has no hover it is always visible rather than an
+         * invisible button holding its hit area. The inverse of #68's
+         * rule, which applies where the hover control is redundant.
+         */
+        @media not all and (hover: hover) {
+            .reset-btn {
+                opacity: 1;
+            }
+        }
     `;
 
     private handleClick = () => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/queue-panel/queue-panel.ts b/frontend/src/components/queue-panel/queue-panel.ts
index 4dcd99e..f33a603 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/queue-panel/queue-panel.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/queue-panel/queue-panel.ts
@@ -639,23 +639,42 @@ export class QueuePanel
             text-overflow: ellipsis;
         }
 
+        /*
+         * The per-row remove is a hover affordance, and on a device
+         * without hover it is redundant rather than missing: the row's
+         * context menu is a bottom sheet since #60 and carries "Remove
+         * from Queue", so the action is one long-press away. An
+         * always-visible X would instead spend part of a 424px row on
+         * something already reachable. #68's treatment, for #68's reason.
+         *
+         * display:none outside the query rather than visibility:hidden:
+         * a hidden button still occupies its hit area and is still in
+         * the accessibility tree, so a phone would keep a target for a
+         * control it can never see.
+         */
         .remove-button {
-            background: none;
-            border: none;
-            color: var(--yj-text-tertiary, #888);
-            cursor: pointer;
-            padding: 4px;
-            display: flex;
-            align-items: center;
-            visibility: hidden;
+            display: none;
         }
 
-        .track-item:hover .remove-button {
-            visibility: visible;
-        }
+        @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) {
+            .remove-button {
+                background: none;
+                border: none;
+                color: var(--yj-text-tertiary, #888);
+                cursor: pointer;
+                padding: 4px;
+                display: flex;
+                align-items: center;
+                visibility: hidden;
+            }
 
-        .remove-button:hover {
-            color: var(--yj-error-text, #ff8787);
+            .track-item:hover .remove-button {
+                visibility: visible;
+            }
+
+            .remove-button:hover {
+                color: var(--yj-error-text, #ff8787);
+            }
         }
 
         .list-area.drag-over {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/track-details/track-details.ts b/frontend/src/components/track-details/track-details.ts
index 23cf502..992a326 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/track-details/track-details.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/track-details/track-details.ts
@@ -529,6 +529,21 @@ export class TrackDetails extends LitElement {
             background: var(--yj-error, #e03131);
         }
 
+        /*
+         * Both are the *only* route to changing or removing a track's
+         * cover art, so where the device has no hover they are always
+         * visible rather than hidden — the inverse of #68's rule, which
+         * applies where the hover control is redundant. Revealed by
+         * opacity, so what is on screen is what the desktop reveal shows
+         * and nothing about the layout moves.
+         */
+        @media not all and (hover: hover) {
+            .cover-art-overlay,
+            .cover-art-remove {
+                opacity: 1;
+            }
+        }
+
         /* Error message */
         .error-message {
             flex: 1;
diff --git a/frontend/test/components/hover-affordance.test.ts b/frontend/test/components/hover-affordance.test.ts
index 78d671c..75cde75 100644
--- a/frontend/test/components/hover-affordance.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/test/components/hover-affordance.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /**
- * A hover affordance is gated on the device having hover.
+ * A hover affordance is gated on the device having hover — in whichever
+ * direction keeps the action reachable.
  *
  * The home page's cover cards reveal a play button on :hover. A touch
  * long-press synthesises a hover state in the WebView, so on a phone
@@ -7,6 +8,15 @@
  * utils/long-press.ts is measuring for a context menu — a control
  * appearing because the user was reaching for a different one.
  *
+ * #137 is the same sweep with the opposite answer for two of its three
+ * cases. Where the revealed control is the *only* route to its action,
+ * hiding it removes the action, so it is always visible where there is
+ * no hover: `track-details`'s cover-art overlay and remove, and
+ * `shortcut-capture`'s reset. The queue's per-row remove is the third,
+ * and is the redundant kind — since #60 the row's context menu is a
+ * bottom sheet carrying "Remove from Queue" — so it takes #68's
+ * treatment here.
+ *
  * This is asserted against the *parsed stylesheet* rather than by
  * emulating a touch device, and that is a limitation worth stating
  * rather than hiding. CDP's Emulation.setEmulatedMedia does not reach
@@ -24,6 +34,9 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
 
 import '@components/home-view/home-view';
+import '@components/queue-panel/queue-panel';
+import '@components/track-details/track-details';
+import '@components/config-page/shortcut-capture';
 import { fixture } from '@test/support/render';
 
 /** Every rule in the element's own adopted stylesheets, flattened. */
@@ -83,3 +96,91 @@ describe('the home card play button', () => {
     expect(unconditional.some((r) => /display:\s*none/.test(r.text))).toBe(true);
   });
 });
+
+describe("the queue row's remove button", () => {
+  it('is absent where the device has no hover, the menu carrying the action', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture('queue-panel', {});
+    const rules = rulesOf(el);
+
+    expect(rules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    // visibility:hidden alone would leave an invisible button holding
+    // its hit area on a phone, which is the trap #68's commit names.
+    const unconditional = rules.filter(
+      (r) => r.condition === null && r.text.startsWith('.remove-button'),
+    );
+
+    expect(unconditional.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(unconditional.some((r) => /display:\s*none/.test(r.text))).toBe(true);
+
+    const reveals = rules.filter(
+      (r) =>
+        r.text.includes('.remove-button') && /visibility:\s*visible/.test(r.text),
+    );
+
+    expect(reveals.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+    for (const rule of reveals) {
+      expect(rule.condition).toMatch(/hover:\s*hover/);
+      expect(rule.condition).toMatch(/pointer:\s*fine/);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * The two affordances that are the only route to their action.
+ *
+ * Asserted as "there is a rule showing it, and its condition is a
+ * *negated* hover query" — the same stylesheet reading as above, for
+ * the same reason: this tier's iframe cannot be emulated as a touch
+ * device, and the regression worth catching is someone folding the rule
+ * away as redundant on the desktop it does nothing on.
+ */
+describe('an affordance with no other route', () => {
+  const cases: Array<[string, string, string[]]> = [
+    ['track-details', 'track-details', ['.cover-art-overlay', '.cover-art-remove']],
+    ['shortcut-capture', 'shortcut-capture', ['.reset-btn']],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, tag, selectors] of cases) {
+    it(`${name} shows it where the device has no hover`, async () => {
+      const el = await fixture(tag, {});
+      const rules = rulesOf(el);
+
+      expect(rules.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+      for (const selector of selectors) {
+        const shown = rules.filter(
+          (r) =>
+            r.condition !== null &&
+            r.text.includes(selector) &&
+            /opacity:\s*1/.test(r.text),
+        );
+
+        const touch = shown.filter((r) => /not[\s\S]*hover:\s*hover/.test(r.condition!));
+
+        expect(touch.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  // The one half this tier can measure rather than read: the query is
+  // negated, so on the hover-capable browser running these tests the
+  // control must still be revealed by hover and by nothing else. A rule
+  // written without the `not` would show it here, permanently, on every
+  // desktop.
+  it('leaves the desktop reveal alone, where the device does have hover', async () => {
+    expect(matchMedia('(hover: hover)').matches).toBe(true);
+
+    const el = await fixture('shortcut-capture', {
+      action: 'player.next',
+      label: 'Next Track',
+      currentKey: 'X',
+      defaultKey: 'N',
+    });
+    const btn = el.shadowRoot?.querySelector('.reset-btn');
+
+    expect(btn).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(getComputedStyle(btn!).opacity).toBe('0');
+  });
+});