diff --git a/src/vpn/VpnScreen.tsx b/src/vpn/VpnScreen.tsx
index 433e244..b1e8a00 100644
--- a/src/vpn/VpnScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/vpn/VpnScreen.tsx
@@ -1325,12 +1325,20 @@ export const VpnScreen = ({ embedded, onShowCredits, wordmark, wordmarkLight }:
 
               What belongs here is the whole-app reset: forget every connection at once.
 
-              Gated on anything indicating a node exists, NOT on `registered` alone. That flag is written
-              by the app and stays false on the Tailscale path, so a fully connected node offered no
-              reset at all — invisible precisely when it applied.
+              NOT GATED AT ALL, and that is the point.
+
+              It was shown only when `registered || connected || profiles.length > 0` — evidence that
+              something had worked. But a reset is what you reach for when nothing has worked, and the
+              state it was reading is exactly the state that breaks: a half-finished sign-in leaves no
+              profile, no registration and no connection, so all three were false and the only way out
+              of the app was to delete it from the home screen.
+
+              That happened, on a real phone, at one in the morning. The previous version of this gate
+              had the same shape and the comment above it said the same thing about a different case,
+              which is the tell: any condition here is a bet that the app knows its own state, and this
+              button exists for when it does not.
             */}
-            {vm.registered || vm.connected || vm.profiles.length > 0 ? (
-              <Pressable
+            <Pressable
                 // Close Settings on the way out, so signing out lands on the first-run chooser rather
                 // than on a settings screen describing a node that no longer exists.
                 onPress={async () => {
@@ -1349,15 +1357,12 @@ export const VpnScreen = ({ embedded, onShowCredits, wordmark, wordmarkLight }:
                 <Text className="text-base font-bold" style={{ color: palette.danger }}>
                   {vm.busy ? 'Forgetting…' : 'Forget all connections'}
                 </Text>
-              </Pressable>
-            ) : null}
-            {vm.registered || vm.connected || vm.profiles.length > 0 ? (
-              <Text style={{ color: palette.text, fontSize: 12 }}>
-                Removes this device from every tailnet it has joined and returns OffScale to setup. Each
-                one disappears from its admin panel; signing in again registers a new device. To leave
-                just one, sign out of it from its row on the main screen.
-              </Text>
-            ) : null}
+            </Pressable>
+            <Text style={{ color: palette.text, fontSize: 12 }}>
+              Removes this device from every tailnet it has joined and returns OffScale to setup. Each
+              one disappears from its admin panel; signing in again registers a new device. To leave
+              just one, sign out of it from its row on the main screen.
+            </Text>
           </>
         }
       >