diff --git a/examples/folio/sanderling/predicates.ts b/examples/folio/sanderling/predicates.ts
index 82fbfc9..fe94ee5 100644
--- a/examples/folio/sanderling/predicates.ts
+++ b/examples/folio/sanderling/predicates.ts
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ export interface ObservedAction {
   kind?: string;
   on?: string | object;
   applied?: true | null;
+  relaunched?: true | null;
 }
 
 function isTapOn(lastAction: ObservedAction | null, target: string): boolean {
@@ -216,6 +217,19 @@ export function confirmedApplied(lastAction: ObservedAction | null): boolean {
   return lastAction != null && lastAction.applied === true;
 }
 
+// The runner reports this when its foreground guard had to relaunch the app
+// after the action. The action still happened, so it still counts toward how
+// many submits a window could hold; what nobody can promise across it is that
+// the process survived long enough to commit, or that Home is showing the same
+// slice of the account list it was.
+//
+// `true | null` for the same reason `applied` is: web and iOS cannot read the
+// foreground at all, so "no relaunch reported" is not "the app never
+// restarted", and only an explicit true licenses declining.
+export function acrossRelaunch(lastAction: ObservedAction | null): boolean {
+  return lastAction != null && lastAction.relaunched === true;
+}
+
 // Counts the submit actions inside the window the balance property compares
 // over: from the last Home total we read to this step, inclusive of this step's
 // action.
@@ -453,6 +467,10 @@ export function createdAccountHasNonZeroBalance(args: {
   // card to: the card that turned up may be an older account of the same name
   // scrolling into view.
   if (!confirmedApplied(lastAction)) return false;
+  // A relaunch draws Home from the top again, so the card that carries the
+  // typed name may be an older account of that name laid out where the new one
+  // used to be, and the create may not have reached sqlite at all.
+  if (acrossRelaunch(lastAction)) return false;
   if (before === null || after === null) return false;
   const typed = (args.typedName ?? "").trim();
   if (typed === "") return false;
@@ -641,6 +659,10 @@ export function submitChangesBalanceByTypedAmount(args: {
   // runner could not confirm may have committed nothing, and a balance that
   // did not move is then exactly what a healthy app looks like.
   if (!confirmedApplied(lastAction)) return true;
+  // The runner restarted the app after this tap, so the process may have died
+  // between the commit and the sqlite write. A balance that did not move is
+  // then a healthy app, exactly as it is for a submit that may not have landed.
+  if (acrossRelaunch(lastAction)) return true;
   if (submitsInWindow !== 1) return true;
   if (typedAmount === 0) return true;
   // An unknown total on either side is not evidence of anything. Comparing one
diff --git a/pkg/spec/test/folio-new-account.test.ts b/pkg/spec/test/folio-new-account.test.ts
index 8c9950c..98845f8 100644
--- a/pkg/spec/test/folio-new-account.test.ts
+++ b/pkg/spec/test/folio-new-account.test.ts
@@ -322,6 +322,40 @@ test("a card that was already there is not a card that was just created", () =>
   );
 });
 
+// The runner's foreground guard restarted the app after the create. A fresh
+// launch draws Home from the top, so the visible set is whatever the new layout
+// fits rather than what was there a step ago, and "appeared in the reading" is
+// even less like "was created" than usual. The process may also have died
+// before the write landed, which makes the card that carries the typed name an
+// older account of that name coming into view.
+test("a create the runner relaunched across attributes nothing", () => {
+  assert.equal(
+    createdAccountHasNonZeroBalance({
+      route: "home",
+      lastAction: { ...created, relaunched: true },
+      typedName: "Travel",
+      before: [account("Checking", 0)],
+      after: [account("Checking", 0), account("Travel", 5000)],
+    }),
+    false,
+  );
+});
+
+test("no relaunch reported still judges the account that was created", () => {
+  for (const relaunched of [null, undefined]) {
+    assert.equal(
+      createdAccountHasNonZeroBalance({
+        route: "home",
+        lastAction: { ...created, relaunched },
+        typedName: "Travel",
+        before: [account("Checking", 0)],
+        after: [account("Checking", 0), account("Travel", 5000)],
+      }),
+      true,
+    );
+  }
+});
+
 // The apply call failed with the gesture possibly already delivered, so nobody
 // knows whether that account was created. The card carrying the typed name may
 // be an older one that scrolled into view, and attributing it to a creation
diff --git a/pkg/spec/test/folio-submit-balance-predicate.test.ts b/pkg/spec/test/folio-submit-balance-predicate.test.ts
index 672fb5b..280f18a 100644
--- a/pkg/spec/test/folio-submit-balance-predicate.test.ts
+++ b/pkg/spec/test/folio-submit-balance-predicate.test.ts
@@ -520,3 +520,41 @@ test("a submit the runner could not confirm demands no balance move", () => {
     true,
   );
 });
+
+// relaunched: true is the runner saying its foreground guard restarted the app
+// after this action. The tap landed, so the window still counts it, but nobody
+// can promise the process lived long enough for the write to reach sqlite. A
+// balance still sitting where it was is exactly what a healthy app looks like
+// across a relaunch, and demanding the typed amount of movement convicts it for
+// the runner's own restart.
+test("a submit the runner relaunched across demands no balance move", () => {
+  assert.equal(
+    submitChangesBalanceByTypedAmount({
+      route: "home",
+      lastAction: { kind: "Tap", on: submitOn, applied: true, relaunched: true },
+      submitsInWindow: 1,
+      typedAmount: 500,
+      prevTotalBalance: 1000,
+      currTotalBalance: 1000,
+    }),
+    true,
+  );
+});
+
+// The guard must not become a way of switching the property off. No relaunch
+// reported is the ordinary case, and web and iOS cannot report one at all.
+test("no relaunch reported still convicts a double submit", () => {
+  for (const relaunched of [null, undefined]) {
+    assert.equal(
+      submitChangesBalanceByTypedAmount({
+        route: "home",
+        lastAction: { kind: "DoubleTap", on: submitOn, applied: true, relaunched },
+        submitsInWindow: 1,
+        typedAmount: 500,
+        prevTotalBalance: 1000,
+        currTotalBalance: 2000,
+      }),
+      false,
+    );
+  }
+});