diff --git a/libs/playlist/m3u/feature-player/src/lib/video-player/video-player.component.scss b/libs/playlist/m3u/feature-player/src/lib/video-player/video-player.component.scss
index 0b38a9387..5e9c2fff5 100644
--- a/libs/playlist/m3u/feature-player/src/lib/video-player/video-player.component.scss
+++ b/libs/playlist/m3u/feature-player/src/lib/video-player/video-player.component.scss
@@ -138,8 +138,10 @@
         }
     }
 
+    // Keeps the mixin's player floor rather than releasing it: `height: 50vh`
+    // is a preference, not a reservation, so on a short landscape phone the
+    // drawer could otherwise squeeze the video away entirely.
     .content-container {
         height: 50vh;
-        min-height: 0;
     }
 }
diff --git a/libs/ui/styles/_portal-layout.scss b/libs/ui/styles/_portal-layout.scss
index c3568e563..154548b2d 100644
--- a/libs/ui/styles/_portal-layout.scss
+++ b/libs/ui/styles/_portal-layout.scss
@@ -210,10 +210,25 @@
 
         // The player's floor, not the list's ceiling, is what has to hold: a
         // phone shows the categories panel above this layout too, and without
-        // a stated minimum the video ends up a sliver under two lists.
+        // a stated minimum the video ends up a sliver under two lists. The
+        // floor yields on a landscape phone, where 240px is most of the shell
+        // body and claiming it would starve the list instead.
         .content-container {
             flex: 1 1 auto;
-            min-height: 240px;
+            min-height: min(240px, 50vh);
+        }
+
+        // Inside that container the guide is `flex: 0 0 <basis>`, so on a
+        // short screen it took its full basis out of a container that no
+        // longer had it and the video was left with nothing. Here the video
+        // keeps a floor and the guide is what gives way.
+        .video-player {
+            min-height: 120px;
+        }
+
+        .epg.epg--inline {
+            flex-shrink: 1;
+            min-height: 0;
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.html b/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.html
index 648145c00..776b3a7ae 100644
--- a/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.html
+++ b/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.html
@@ -55,7 +55,14 @@
                     'WORKSPACE.SHELL.OPEN_COMMAND_PALETTE' | translate
                 "
             >
-                {{ commandShortcutLabel }}
+                <!-- The shortcut label is the affordance on a keyboard; on a
+                     phone it means nothing, but this button is the only way
+                     to open the palette, so it becomes an icon rather than
+                     disappearing. -->
+                <span class="command-trigger__shortcut">{{
+                    commandShortcutLabel
+                }}</span>
+                <mat-icon class="command-trigger__icon">bolt</mat-icon>
             </button>
         </label>
     }
diff --git a/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.scss b/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.scss
index 5790b6cf6..51ce5be6c 100644
--- a/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.scss
+++ b/libs/workspace/shell/feature/src/lib/workspace-shell/components/workspace-shell-header/workspace-shell-header.component.scss
@@ -116,6 +116,13 @@
         }
     }
 
+    .command-trigger__icon {
+        display: none;
+        font-size: 16px;
+        width: 16px;
+        height: 16px;
+    }
+
     .command-trigger {
         display: inline-flex;
         align-items: center;
@@ -314,11 +321,29 @@
             display: none;
         }
 
-        // Keyboard-only affordances on a screen that usually has no keyboard.
-        // The palette still opens via the actual shortcut and the rail.
+        // An <input> carries an intrinsic min-width from its `size`, and
+        // `min-width: auto` on a flex item honours it — so the input refused
+        // to shrink and pushed the trigger out of the field and onto the
+        // buttons beside it.
+        input {
+            min-width: 0;
+        }
+
+        // This button is the only pointer-driven way into the command
+        // palette, so it stays; only its keyboard-shortcut label is swapped
+        // for an icon that means something without a keyboard.
         .command-trigger {
+            min-width: 28px;
+            padding: 0 4px;
+        }
+
+        .command-trigger__shortcut {
             display: none;
         }
+
+        .command-trigger__icon {
+            display: inline-flex;
+        }
     }
 
     .header-actions--leading {