diff --git a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/MessengerViewModel.kt b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/MessengerViewModel.kt
index a4ad711..c15b1e9 100644
--- a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/MessengerViewModel.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/MessengerViewModel.kt
@@ -1614,9 +1614,20 @@ class MessengerViewModel(app: Application) : AndroidViewModel(app) {
                 if (current != null) {
                     // A story arriving must appear without the user pulling
                     // to refresh; it is filed by `receive()` and read back here.
-                    val threads = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
-                        runCatching { current.receive() }.getOrDefault(emptySet())
+                    val received = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
+                        runCatching { current.receive() }
                     }
+                    // 🔴 410 from the poll: this device's registration is gone
+                    // — revoked from another phone, or expired by the sweep.
+                    // Wipe and sign out with an honest sentence, rather than
+                    // hammering a mailbox that no longer exists while sitting
+                    // on ciphertext the account's owner asked to be gone.
+                    val failure = received.exceptionOrNull()
+                    if (failure is RelayException.Http && failure.status == 410) {
+                        signOutRevoked()
+                        return@launch
+                    }
+                    val threads = received.getOrDefault(emptySet())
                     // 🔴 **Retry the outbox on every tick.** A message to
                     // somebody with no registered device waits here rather than
                     // being lost or dumped on the sender to remember — see
@@ -1705,6 +1716,22 @@ class MessengerViewModel(app: Application) : AndroidViewModel(app) {
         const val CALL_SETUP_POLL_MS = 1_000L
     }
 
+    /// The relay said this device was removed. Same teardown as a sign-out —
+    /// which on Android is already a full vault destroy — plus the sentence
+    /// that says what happened and what signing in again means.
+    private fun signOutRevoked() = viewModelScope.launch {
+        polling?.cancel()
+        polling = null
+        session = null
+        withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { runCatching { KeystoreVault.destroy(getApplication()) } }
+        identity = null
+        vault = KeystoreVault.open(getApplication())
+        _phase.value = Phase.SignedOut(
+            error = "This device was removed from the account, so its local "
+                + "messages were cleared. Signing in again registers it as a "
+                + "new device.")
+    }
+
     fun signOut() = viewModelScope.launch {
         polling?.cancel()
         polling = null