diff --git a/alembic/versions/0027_checklist_items_into_body.py b/alembic/versions/0027_checklist_items_into_body.py
index ed6e5d2..bae2368 100644
--- a/alembic/versions/0027_checklist_items_into_body.py
+++ b/alembic/versions/0027_checklist_items_into_body.py
@@ -10,10 +10,18 @@ position in the text, so a separate list could only ever render AFTER the prose.
 the items in the body, a list can sit between two paragraphs — which is the thing that
 could not be built before and no amount of restyling would have delivered.
 
-## This migration rewrites real content
+## This migration rewrites note bodies
 
-Every note that has items gets its body appended to. The Google Keep import is genuine
-content on this instance, not fixtures, so the rules here are strict:
+Every note that has items gets its body appended to. The rules below are strict
+because rewriting somebody's text deserves it — not, as an earlier draft of this
+docstring claimed, because this instance holds imported Google Keep notes. It does
+not; note 2916's headline is that nothing here is anyone's work but the operator's
+test data. What 2916 actually says about imports is conditional — text arriving from
+another app WOULD be real, and any import path has to treat it that way — and the
+importer this migration shares a format with is one nobody here has run.
+
+Careful was still the right call. It cost little, and the same care is what the rule
+demands the day someone does import something:
 
   * Rows are read BEFORE the table is dropped, in this one transaction.
   * The existing body is never rewritten, only appended to.
diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BlockBody.kt b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BlockBody.kt
index 4f3a530..c609eeb 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BlockBody.kt
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BlockBody.kt
@@ -83,8 +83,12 @@ fun BlockBody(
                         onFocus(if (blocks[index].value.text.isBlank()) block.id else next)
                     },
                     onDelete = {
-                        onChange(blocks.withoutIndex(index))
-                        onFocus(blocks.getOrNull(index - 1)?.id)
+                        val remaining = blocks.withoutIndex(index)
+                        onChange(remaining)
+                        // The row above — or, for the FIRST row, whichever one takes
+                        // its place. `index - 1` alone is -1 there, which left the
+                        // keyboard up with nothing focused.
+                        onFocus(remaining.getOrNull((index - 1).coerceAtLeast(0))?.id)
                     },
                 )
             } else {