diff --git a/web/DetailPanel.tsx b/web/DetailPanel.tsx
index 0afe5c6..2227f1f 100644
--- a/web/DetailPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/DetailPanel.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import { Navigate } from 'react-router';
 import { href, useNav } from './routes';
 import { DEFAULT_SECTION } from './sections';
-import { Eye, Monitor, Pencil, Smartphone, Tablet } from 'lucide-react';
-import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { sectionFor, sectionOpen, type SectionKey } from './sections';
 import { AdministrationPanel } from './AdministrationPanel';
 import { MediaPanel } from './MediaPanel';
@@ -10,10 +8,7 @@ import { GalleriesPanel } from './sections/GalleriesPanel';
 import { LayoutPanel } from './sections/LayoutPanel';
 import { PagesPanel } from './sections/PagesPanel';
 import { PageBuilderPanel } from './sections/PageBuilderPanel';
-import { PublishButton } from './PublishButton';
-import { SyncButton } from './SyncButton';
-import { DEVICES, ViewModeProvider, useViewMode } from './ViewMode';
-import { DeviceToggle } from './DeviceToggle';
+import { ViewModeProvider } from './ViewMode';
 import { MessagesPanel } from './MessagesPanel';
 import { PlannedSection } from './PlannedSection';
 import { useReady } from './useReady';
@@ -58,16 +53,6 @@ const PANELS: Partial<Record<SectionKey, () => React.JSX.Element>> = {
   media: MediaPanel,
 };
 
-/** The width the preview is rendered at. See DEVICES for why these three and not others. */
-const BarDeviceToggle = () => {
-  const { previewable } = useViewMode();
-  if (!previewable) return null;
-
-  // The same control the editor sections use — see DeviceToggle, which reads `?device=` rather than a
-  // context so every panel on the screen shares one answer.
-  return <DeviceToggle size="bar" />;
-};
-
 export const DetailPanel = () => {
   /*
     A page selected inside Pages opens the BUILDER, not the list with a row lit up. By SLUG, so the URL
@@ -113,48 +98,18 @@ export const DetailPanel = () => {
   return (
     <div className="flex size-full flex-col overflow-hidden">
       {/*
-        The site's own actions, pinned above whatever the section is showing.
+        No bar.
 
-        OUTSIDE the scroll area on purpose. Every panel scrolls its own contents, so anything drawn
-        inside one leaves the screen as soon as somebody reads to the bottom — and Publish is what you
-        reach for AFTER reading to the bottom. It sits here instead, as a sibling of the scrolling
-        region rather than the first thing inside it.
+        It held the device toggle and Sync / Build / Publish across the top of this panel. The toggle
+        moved to the top of the EDITOR, which is where the settings it scopes already are; the three
+        actions are out until they have a place that is theirs rather than a corner of the panel that
+        happens to be pinned. `SyncButton` and `PublishButton` still exist and are still mounted
+        nowhere — see git history for what the bar looked like.
 
-        Not in the workspace's chrome header either, where it lived for an afternoon. That header is
-        shared furniture drawn the same way by every panel in the app; these two buttons belong to this
-        plugin and to the site it administers.
+        `ViewModeProvider` stays. It is not the bar's: the preview and the two panels with one read
+        `device` from it, and `usePreviewable` is how a section says it has a page to show.
       */}
       <ViewModeProvider>
-        {/*
-            Three groups: how you are looking at it, at what width, and what to do with it.
-
-            The middle one is centred against the BAR rather than against what is beside it — the two
-            outer groups change width as sections come and go, and a middle that drifted with them
-            would never be in the same place twice.
-          */}
-        <div className="flex shrink-0 items-center gap-2 border-b border-border px-4 py-2">
-          {/* Empty, and deliberately still here: the middle group is centred against the BAR, so
-                removing the left group would let Desktop/Tablet/Mobile drift left as the right group
-                changes width. It held Edit/View — see the note in ViewMode about why there is no
-                longer a mode to toggle. */}
-          <div className="flex flex-1 justify-start" />
-
-          <div className="flex justify-center">
-            <BarDeviceToggle />
-          </div>
-
-          <div className="flex flex-1 items-center justify-end gap-2">
-            {/* The order is the sequence: make the media web-ready, then make it public. Sync sits
-                  left of Build for the same reason Build sits left of Publish — it is what has to have
-                  happened first, and a stale `derived/` is a picture missing from the page you just
-                  built.
-
-                  No Save. Every control writes itself — see useAutosave. */}
-            <SyncButton />
-            <PublishButton />
-          </div>
-        </div>
-
         <div className="min-h-0 flex-1">{Panel ? <Panel /> : <PlannedSection section={current} />}</div>
       </ViewModeProvider>
     </div>
diff --git a/web/EditorPanel.tsx b/web/EditorPanel.tsx
index 04afdae..64877ca 100644
--- a/web/EditorPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/EditorPanel.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { DeviceToggle } from './DeviceToggle';
 import { useEditorSlot } from './useEditorSlot';
 
 /**
@@ -8,23 +9,44 @@ import { useEditorSlot } from './useEditorSlot';
  * to a row of two dropdowns. A panel keeps the page whole and puts the controls where a workspace puts
  * controls.
  *
- * It holds nothing. The panel that owns a selection builds the editor and announces it — see
- * useEditorSlot for why it carries the element rather than a description of one.
+ * It holds nothing of its own except the width. The panel that owns a selection builds the editor and
+ * announces it — see useEditorSlot for why it carries the element rather than a description of one.
+ *
+ * ── The device toggle is here, above everything ──
+ *
+ * It was in a bar across the top of the detail panel, which put it beside Sync and Publish — three
+ * things that act on the SITE next to one that decides how you are looking at it. It belongs with the
+ * settings it scopes: a spacing is chosen per width, and the control saying which width should be the
+ * first thing in the column those choices are made in.
+ *
+ * Always drawn, including when nothing is selected. It is not part of the editor — it decides what the
+ * PREVIEW shows, so hiding it until a block is picked would mean selecting something to change the
+ * width and then deselecting it.
+ *
+ * It reads `?device=` rather than a context, which is what lets it live in a panel that is a sibling of
+ * the one holding the preview. See DeviceToggle.
  */
 export const EditorPanel = () => {
   const [editor] = useEditorSlot();
 
-  if (!editor) {
-    return (
-      <div className="flex size-full items-center justify-center p-6 text-center">
-        {/* Names what the panel is FOR rather than saying it is empty. "Nothing selected" describes
-            this component's state; this describes the reader's next move. */}
-        <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-          Pick a block in the page to edit it, or press Spacing on a band.
-        </p>
+  return (
+    <div className="flex size-full flex-col overflow-hidden">
+      {/* Outside the scroll area, so a long editor cannot carry it off the screen. */}
+      <div className="flex shrink-0 justify-center border-b border-border px-3 py-2">
+        <DeviceToggle size="bar" />
       </div>
-    );
-  }
 
-  return <div className="size-full overflow-auto p-3">{editor}</div>;
+      {editor ? (
+        <div className="min-h-0 flex-1 overflow-auto p-3">{editor}</div>
+      ) : (
+        <div className="flex min-h-0 flex-1 items-center justify-center p-6 text-center">
+          {/* Names what the panel is FOR rather than saying it is empty. "Nothing selected" describes
+              this component's state; this describes the reader's next move. */}
+          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
+            Pick a block in the page to edit it, or press Spacing on a band.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
 };