diff --git a/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.spec.ts b/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.spec.ts
index 8f23f8812..bbe593eba 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.spec.ts
@@ -369,3 +369,45 @@ describe('ParentalLockEnforcementService apply serialization', () => {
         expect(xtreamStore.setSelectedCategory).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
     });
 });
+
+describe('ParentalLockEnforcementService busy probe', () => {
+    it('counts playing audio (the radio player) as activity', () => {
+        let probe: (() => boolean) | undefined;
+        TestBed.resetTestingModule();
+        TestBed.configureTestingModule({
+            providers: [
+                {
+                    provide: ParentalLockService,
+                    useValue: {
+                        version: signal(0),
+                        registerBusyProbe: (fn: () => boolean) => (probe = fn),
+                    },
+                },
+                { provide: XtreamStore, useValue: {} },
+                { provide: StalkerStore, useValue: {} },
+                { provide: Router, useValue: { url: '/' } },
+                {
+                    provide: Store,
+                    useValue: { selectSignal: () => signal(null) },
+                },
+                {
+                    provide: PlaybackKeepAwakeService,
+                    useValue: { hasPlayingVideo: () => false },
+                },
+            ],
+        });
+        const service = TestBed.inject(ParentalLockEnforcementService);
+        TestBed.runInInjectionContext(() => service.start());
+        expect(probe?.()).toBe(false);
+
+        const audio = document.createElement('audio');
+        Object.defineProperty(audio, 'paused', { value: false });
+        Object.defineProperty(audio, 'ended', { value: false });
+        document.body.appendChild(audio);
+        try {
+            expect(probe?.()).toBe(true);
+        } finally {
+            audio.remove();
+        }
+    });
+});
diff --git a/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.ts b/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.ts
index 9574a00fc..e355926ad 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/app/services/parental-lock-enforcement.service.ts
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ export class ParentalLockEnforcementService {
             return;
         }
         this.started = true;
-        this.parentalLock.registerBusyProbe(() =>
-            this.keepAwake.hasPlayingVideo()
+        // Playback counts as activity: video through the keep-awake
+        // tracker, and audio (the radio player) read directly, since the
+        // keep-awake service deliberately ignores <audio>.
+        this.parentalLock.registerBusyProbe(
+            () => this.keepAwake.hasPlayingVideo() || hasPlayingAudio()
         );
         effect(() => {
             const version = this.parentalLock.version();
@@ -294,3 +297,9 @@ export class ParentalLockEnforcementService {
         return match ? decodeURIComponent(match[1]) : null;
     }
 }
+
+function hasPlayingAudio(): boolean {
+    return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('audio')).some(
+        (audio) => !audio.paused && !audio.ended
+    );
+}
diff --git a/docs/architecture/parental-lock.md b/docs/architecture/parental-lock.md
index 6d2922d18..0d8019241 100644
--- a/docs/architecture/parental-lock.md
+++ b/docs/architecture/parental-lock.md
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ follow in a second PR.
   (default 15; `0` = only on restart). The idle timer follows the UNLOCKED
   transition: armed the moment a session is unlocked — including the session
   that just enabled the feature — and disarmed on lock. Active playback of a built-in web
-  player counts as interaction, so a film never locks half way.
+  player counts as interaction, so a film never locks half way — video
+  through the keep-awake tracker, and audio (the radio player) read from
+  the playing `<audio>` elements, since the keep-awake service ignores
+  them.
 - This is a child lock, not a security boundary: the PIN hash and the lock
   store sit in user-readable app data. The UI says so. There is no PIN
   recovery; resetting the app data is the way out.
@@ -357,7 +360,9 @@ deletion has succeeded — the in-memory store empties at once, and a failed
 persisted clear is retried on the next store access and overwritten by the
 next write. A backup restore that CREATES a playlist (not a merge) starts
 that playlist from empty locks, so a reused id can never inherit entries a
-failed cleanup left behind.
+failed cleanup left behind; the restore retries a failed lock-store read
+first (`ensureLocksReadable`) and aborts while it still fails, so that check
+never runs against the empty fail-closed snapshot.
 
 ## Backup
 
diff --git a/libs/services/src/lib/parental-lock/parental-lock.service.ts b/libs/services/src/lib/parental-lock/parental-lock.service.ts
index bd6c1d8db..d3084fa87 100644
--- a/libs/services/src/lib/parental-lock/parental-lock.service.ts
+++ b/libs/services/src/lib/parental-lock/parental-lock.service.ts
@@ -437,6 +437,12 @@ export class ParentalLockService {
         return this.locks.setM3uLocks(playlistId, groupTitles);
     }
 
+    /** Retries a failed lock-store read; false while it still fails. */
+    async ensureLocksReadable(): Promise<boolean> {
+        await this.initialize();
+        return this.locks.ensureReadable();
+    }
+
     /** Playlist deletion: its locks leave the store. */
     async removePlaylistLocks(playlistId: string): Promise<boolean> {
         await this.initialize();
diff --git a/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.test-helpers.ts b/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.test-helpers.ts
index 5525ca0cd..590de721d 100644
--- a/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.test-helpers.ts
+++ b/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.test-helpers.ts
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ export function createPlaylistBackupService(
         parentalLock: {
             initialize: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
             locksReadable: jest.fn(() => true),
+            ensureLocksReadable: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(true),
             locksFor: jest.fn(() => ({ xtream: [], stalker: [], m3u: [] })),
             replacePlaylistLocks: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(true),
         },
diff --git a/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.ts b/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.ts
index 828437430..76e213e7a 100644
--- a/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.ts
+++ b/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.ts
@@ -1117,6 +1117,14 @@ export class PlaylistBackupService {
         entry: PlaylistBackupEntry,
         isMerge: boolean
     ): Promise<void> {
+        // The stale-id check below and the merge base both read the store; an
+        // empty fail-closed snapshot would let a reused id keep a deleted
+        // playlist's locks once a later read recovers them.
+        if (!(await this.parentalLock.ensureLocksReadable())) {
+            throw new PlaylistBackupError(
+                `Restoring the parental locks for "${playlistId}" failed: the lock store could not be read.`
+            );
+        }
         // A playlist created by this restore owns no locks yet: whatever the
         // store holds under a reused id belongs to a deleted playlist (a
         // cleanup that failed), and must not be inherited.
diff --git a/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.xtream-restore.spec.ts b/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.xtream-restore.spec.ts
index b70943499..d2e5af9b9 100644
--- a/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.xtream-restore.spec.ts
+++ b/libs/services/src/lib/playlist-backup.service.xtream-restore.spec.ts
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ describe('PlaylistBackupService Xtream hidden categories (issue #1017)', () => {
             parentalLock: {
                 initialize: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
                 locksReadable: jest.fn(() => true),
+                ensureLocksReadable: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(true),
                 // A failed cleanup left locks under the id the restore reuses.
                 locksFor: jest.fn(() => ({
                     xtream: [{ categoryType: 'live', xtreamId: 1 }],