diff --git a/surfaces/quickshell/GlobalStates.qml b/surfaces/quickshell/GlobalStates.qml
index 3a7cc95..89668d5 100644
--- a/surfaces/quickshell/GlobalStates.qml
+++ b/surfaces/quickshell/GlobalStates.qml
@@ -88,6 +88,25 @@ Singleton {
         root.oskHolds = [];
         root.oskHoldRestoreOpen = false;
     }
+
+    // Locking closes the keyboard, and unlocking does not bring it back.
+    //
+    // `oskHoldRestoreOpen` remembers whether the keyboard was up when the
+    // first hold was taken, so releasing the last hold restores rather than
+    // clobbers it. Across a lock that restore is wrong: the keyboard was up
+    // because of something the user was typing into before they put the phone
+    // down, and the first thing they see on unlocking is a keyboard over
+    // whatever they actually came back for.
+    //
+    // Intent to type does not survive the screen going away. Anything that
+    // still wants the keyboard — a field taking focus again — will ask for it,
+    // which is the path that already works.
+    onScreenLockedChanged: {
+        if (!root.screenLocked) return;
+        root.oskHolds = [];
+        root.oskHoldRestoreOpen = false;
+        root.oskOpen = false;
+    }
     // WRITER: ii overlay module
     property bool overlayOpen: false
     // WRITER: ii overview module + Dock.qml IPC