diff --git a/src/app/hooks/useTauriFocusAssist.ts b/src/app/hooks/useTauriFocusAssist.ts
index 15ade4ffb..d50165b92 100644
--- a/src/app/hooks/useTauriFocusAssist.ts
+++ b/src/app/hooks/useTauriFocusAssist.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+import { useEffect } from 'react';
 import { useSetAtom } from 'jotai';
 import { focusAssistActiveAtom } from '../state/focusAssist';
-import { useTauriEvent } from './useTauri';
+import { tauriInvoke, useTauriEvent } from './useTauri';
 
 /** Detail shape of the `focus-assist-changed` event emitted by the native side. */
 type FocusAssistChangedDetail = {
@@ -21,4 +22,16 @@ export function useTauriFocusAssist(): void {
   useTauriEvent<FocusAssistChangedDetail>('focus-assist-changed', ({ active }) =>
     setFocusAssist(active),
   );
+
+  // Hydrate on mount. The native poll only emits on a transition, and its first
+  // reading lands during app setup before this page is listening — so with Focus
+  // Assist already on at launch (or after a reload) notifications leaked until
+  // the OS state next flipped (cinny-desktop #15). `null` = no reading yet.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    tauriInvoke()?.('get_focus_assist')
+      .then((active) => {
+        if (typeof active === 'boolean') setFocusAssist(active);
+      })
+      .catch(() => undefined);
+  }, [setFocusAssist]);
 }
diff --git a/src/app/hooks/useTauriToastActions.ts b/src/app/hooks/useTauriToastActions.ts
index 074b6062f..dc38b70d0 100644
--- a/src/app/hooks/useTauriToastActions.ts
+++ b/src/app/hooks/useTauriToastActions.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ interface ActivateDetail {
 /** Payload of the `lotus-notification-reply` event (the inline reply box). */
 interface ReplyDetail {
   roomId?: string;
+  /** Set for a thread notification: the reply goes into that thread. */
+  threadId?: string;
   text?: string;
 }
 
@@ -36,12 +38,14 @@ export function useTauriToastActions(): void {
     if (path) navigate(path);
   });
 
-  useTauriEvent<ReplyDetail>('lotus-notification-reply', ({ roomId, text }) => {
+  useTauriEvent<ReplyDetail>('lotus-notification-reply', ({ roomId, threadId, text }) => {
+    // `roomId` is the real room id carried in the notification data, never the
+    // coalescing tag (`room:thread`, `lotus-invites`) — cinny-desktop #17.
     if (!roomId || !text) return;
     // #79 — a quick-reply failure (offline, no send permission, etc.) used to
     // be swallowed with no feedback, leaving the user believing it was sent.
     // Surface it via the in-app error toast instead.
-    mx.sendMessage(roomId, { msgtype: MsgType.Text, body: text }).catch(() => {
+    mx.sendMessage(roomId, threadId ?? null, { msgtype: MsgType.Text, body: text }).catch(() => {
       setToast(
         createErrorToast(
           'Your quick reply could not be sent. Please try again.',