diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Jellyfin/VideoPlayer.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Jellyfin/VideoPlayer.tsx
index 3b336de5..320e4657 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Jellyfin/VideoPlayer.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Jellyfin/VideoPlayer.tsx
@@ -255,11 +255,16 @@ export const VideoPlayer = ({ id }: { id: string }) => {
   }, []);
 
   // Auto-hide, but never while paused — a paused player with no controls looks broken rather than clean.
+  //
+  // `position` must NOT be a dependency, however much it reads like activity. It advances ~4x a second from
+  // onTimeUpdate, so naming it here re-ran this effect — and so cleared the pending timer — long before 2.5s
+  // had passed. The chrome could then only hide while playback was stopped, which is to say never. Real
+  // activity is `wake()`, which sets `chrome` back to true and restarts the timer through the dep below.
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!chrome || !playing) return;
     const timer = setTimeout(() => setChrome(false), CHROME_HIDE_MS);
     return () => clearTimeout(timer);
-  }, [chrome, playing, position]);
+  }, [chrome, playing]);
 
   const seek = useCallback(
     (seconds: number) => {