diff --git a/internal/api/me.go b/internal/api/me.go
index 5372dfd1..bc33cd8f 100644
--- a/internal/api/me.go
+++ b/internal/api/me.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package api
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"net/http"
 
@@ -9,6 +8,22 @@ import (
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/auth"
 )
 
+// handleGetMe returns the authenticated user's profile shape — id,
+// username, display_name, email, is_admin. Mirrors the response shape
+// of PUT /api/me/profile so the Android Settings → Profile screen
+// (and Flutter's equivalent) can read its starting state from a GET
+// before the user has done a first save.
+//
+// Drift #578 fix: this previously emitted the narrower UserView
+// (id, username, is_admin only). Android's MeApi.getProfile() deser-
+// ialised into MyProfileWire and saw display_name=null, email=null
+// on every read — wiping the form fields on every Settings open.
+// Saving from that blank state then submitted empty strings, which
+// handleUpdateMyProfile treats as "clear to NULL" — DESTROYING the
+// user's stored display_name + email. Returning the full profile
+// shape here closes the loop. Web (User type narrower than this
+// response) keeps working via TypeScript structural typing — the
+// extra fields are ignored.
 func (h *handlers) handleGetMe(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	user, ok := auth.UserFromContext(r.Context())
 	if !ok {
@@ -18,10 +33,5 @@ func (h *handlers) handleGetMe(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeErr(w, apierror.InternalMsg("missing auth context", errors.New("missing auth context")))
 		return
 	}
-	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-	_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(UserView{
-		ID:       user.ID,
-		Username: user.Username,
-		IsAdmin:  user.IsAdmin,
-	})
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, profileViewFromUser(user))
 }
diff --git a/internal/api/me_test.go b/internal/api/me_test.go
index 5f37b92e..a9515e6c 100644
--- a/internal/api/me_test.go
+++ b/internal/api/me_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package api
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
@@ -21,13 +22,61 @@ func TestHandleGetMe_ReturnsAuthenticatedUser(t *testing.T) {
 	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
 		t.Fatalf("status = %d body = %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
 	}
-	var got UserView
+	var got meProfileResp
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &got); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("decode: %v", err)
 	}
 	if got.Username != "test-alice" || !got.IsAdmin {
 		t.Errorf("user = %+v, want test-alice/admin", got)
 	}
+	if got.DisplayName != nil {
+		t.Errorf("DisplayName = %v, want nil for a user with no profile set", *got.DisplayName)
+	}
+	if got.Email != nil {
+		t.Errorf("Email = %v, want nil for a user with no profile set", *got.Email)
+	}
+}
+
+// Drift #578 regression guard: a user whose profile fields ARE set
+// must see them in the /api/me response. Previously this handler
+// emitted the narrower UserView so Android Settings → Profile saw
+// display_name=null and email=null on every read, wiped the form
+// fields, and submitting from that blank state destroyed the user's
+// stored values via the "empty string clears to NULL" semantics of
+// PUT /api/me/profile.
+func TestHandleGetMe_IncludesDisplayNameAndEmail(t *testing.T) {
+	h, pool := testHandlers(t)
+	user := seedUser(t, pool, "alice", "hunter2", false)
+
+	displayName := "Alice Liddell"
+	email := "alice@example.com"
+	updated, err := dbq.New(pool).UpdateUserProfile(context.Background(), dbq.UpdateUserProfileParams{
+		ID:          user.ID,
+		DisplayName: &displayName,
+		Email:       &email,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("UpdateUserProfile: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/api/me", nil)
+	req = withUser(req, updated)
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.handleGetMe(w, req)
+
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d body = %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	var got meProfileResp
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &got); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("decode: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got.DisplayName == nil || *got.DisplayName != displayName {
+		t.Errorf("DisplayName = %v, want %q", got.DisplayName, displayName)
+	}
+	if got.Email == nil || *got.Email != email {
+		t.Errorf("Email = %v, want %q", got.Email, email)
+	}
 }
 
 func TestHandleGetMe_MissingContextReturns500(t *testing.T) {