diff --git a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/ChatScreens.kt b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/ChatScreens.kt
index 214548f..ea1e3eb 100644
--- a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/ChatScreens.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/ChatScreens.kt
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ fun ColumnScope.AccountScreen(
         Text("Files", fontWeight = FontWeight.Medium, fontSize = 16.sp)
         Spacer(Modifier.height(Space.xs))
         Text(
-            "Files encrypted on this phone, with a passphrase of their own. "
+            "Files encrypted on this phone, opened with your Flamenet passphrase. "
                 + "Nothing is stored on a server.",
             fontSize = 13.sp,
             color = Palette.SecondaryText,
diff --git a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/FilesScreen.kt b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/FilesScreen.kt
index 321833f..5fb7186 100644
--- a/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/FilesScreen.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/FilesScreen.kt
@@ -118,10 +118,22 @@ private fun ColumnScope.FilesSetUp(
     var passphrase by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
     var again by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
 
+    // 🔴 **"A passphrase of their own" told people to invent a second secret,
+    // and iOS never did.** iOS says "your passphrase" and takes whatever is
+    // typed, so a person naturally uses their Flamenet one and it simply
+    // works. Android's copy sent them off to make up something else, then
+    // asked for it again weeks later — and forgetting it is the one-way door
+    // described above this function.
+    //
+    // ⚠️ **Nothing about the derivation changes.** This is still a free-choice
+    // string protecting the identity record, so anyone who already set a
+    // different one keeps opening their files with it. Making the account
+    // passphrase the ACTUAL key would be a migration with permanent data loss
+    // on the far side of any mistake, and it is not what this fixes.
     Text(
-        "Files on this phone are encrypted with a passphrase of their own. "
-            + "Flamenet doesn't keep it, so nobody can open them by picking up "
-            + "your unlocked phone.",
+        "Use your Flamenet passphrase — the one you sign in with. Files on "
+            + "this phone are encrypted with it, and Flamenet keeps no copy, so "
+            + "nobody can open them by picking up your unlocked phone.",
         fontSize = 14.sp, color = Palette.SecondaryText,
     )
     Spacer(Modifier.height(Space.sm))
@@ -134,7 +146,7 @@ private fun ColumnScope.FilesSetUp(
 
     OutlinedTextField(
         value = passphrase, onValueChange = { passphrase = it },
-        label = { Text("Choose a passphrase") },
+        label = { Text("Your Flamenet passphrase") },
         visualTransformation = PasswordVisualTransformation(),
         singleLine = true,
         modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth().testTag("files-new-passphrase"),
@@ -168,7 +180,10 @@ private fun ColumnScope.FilesUnlock(
 ) {
     var passphrase by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
 
-    Text("Enter your Files passphrase to open them.",
+    // ⚠️ Not "your Files passphrase". That name implied a second secret even
+    // for somebody who had used their Flamenet one, and left them hunting for
+    // a passphrase they never set.
+    Text("Enter your Flamenet passphrase to open them.",
          fontSize = 14.sp, color = Palette.SecondaryText)
     Spacer(Modifier.height(Space.md))
     OutlinedTextField(
diff --git a/app/src/test/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/FilesUsesTheAccountPassphraseTest.kt b/app/src/test/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/FilesUsesTheAccountPassphraseTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30e666e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/test/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/FilesUsesTheAccountPassphraseTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+package io.flamenet.messenger.app
+
+import java.io.File
+import kotlin.test.Test
+import kotlin.test.assertTrue
+
+/**
+ * Files asks for the Flamenet passphrase, not a second secret.
+ *
+ * 🔴 **The screen used to say the files were encrypted "with a passphrase of
+ * their own", and iOS never said anything like it.** iOS says "your
+ * passphrase" and takes whatever is typed, so people use their Flamenet one
+ * and it works. Android's copy sent them off to invent something else — and
+ * forgetting it is a one-way door: the label keys are derived from the
+ * identity it protects and exist nowhere else, so every vaulted file becomes
+ * permanently unreadable.
+ *
+ * ⚠️ **This is about the words, and the words are the whole feature here.**
+ * Nothing in the derivation changed: it is still a free-choice string
+ * protecting the identity record, so anyone who already set a different one
+ * keeps opening their files with it. A guard on the copy is therefore the only
+ * guard there can be.
+ */
+class FilesUsesTheAccountPassphraseTest {
+
+    private fun source(name: String): String {
+        var dir = File(System.getProperty("user.dir"))
+        while (!File(dir, "app/src/main/kotlin").isDirectory && dir.parentFile != null) {
+            dir = dir.parentFile
+        }
+        val f = File(dir, "app/src/main/kotlin/io/flamenet/messenger/app/$name")
+        assertTrue(f.isFile, "could not find $name — this guard is reading nothing")
+        return f.readText()
+    }
+
+    /** Lines that are shown, not lines that explain. */
+    private fun copyLines(body: String): List<String> =
+        body.lines().filterNot {
+            val t = it.trimStart()
+            t.startsWith("//") || t.startsWith("*") || t.startsWith("/*")
+        }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `the setup screen names the Flamenet passphrase`() {
+        val shown = copyLines(source("FilesScreen.kt")).joinToString("\n")
+        assertTrue(
+            shown.contains("Use your Flamenet passphrase"),
+            "the Files setup screen no longer tells people to use the passphrase " +
+                "they already have, which is the whole of android's parity gap with iOS",
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * ⚠️ The exact phrase that caused it. Kept as a literal because a person
+     * rewording this screen should have to read the comment above the string
+     * and decide deliberately, not discover the consequence from a user.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `no screen tells somebody to invent a second secret`() {
+        for (name in listOf("FilesScreen.kt", "ChatScreens.kt")) {
+            val shown = copyLines(source(name)).joinToString("\n")
+            assertTrue(
+                !shown.contains("passphrase of their own"),
+                "$name tells people the files have a passphrase of their own — " +
+                    "iOS asks for the one they already have, and forgetting a " +
+                    "second one destroys every vaulted file",
+            )
+            assertTrue(
+                !shown.contains("Choose a passphrase"),
+                "$name still asks somebody to choose a new passphrase for Files",
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}