diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5992133..99acd4d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1434,6 +1434,20 @@ Things I chose while building, with the reasoning:
     (measured: 268..1280 at a 1280 window) — a flat pane floating 40px inside the scene read as
     "cut off next to the sidebar".
 
+95. **Aero, second pass: a heavier shared blur, and a field that reads as a field.** Two follow-ups
+    on 94. The composer's input was still a flat 60% white bar (the "clean, even tile" from 91) on
+    a panel that had — rightly — become translucent, so it read as a white slab: "especially the
+    part where you enter the prompt". It is now the app's standard frosted tile plus one light
+    veil; measured against the same backdrop, the field sits at `178,212,157` where the panel is
+    `145,183,79`, so it is clearly a brighter *field* while the scene shows through. And because
+    translucent glass needs softness rather than opacity, the shared backdrop
+    (`background-blur.webp`, the pre-blurred copy every Aero surface sits on) was re-baked much
+    softer — a 64×36 upscale instead of the old half-res copy — so panels, cards, chips and
+    buttons all show the scene as an even frosted wash: nothing to read as a muddy patch, nothing
+    turned white. `?v=5` busts the asset. Library, chat, study and settings screens all scan at 0
+    below-minimum contrast findings in all three themes; phone touch still strips the bake
+    entirely (flat 32% glass, as in 93).
+
 94. **Aero glass goes back to glass (the "even wash" read as a white pane).** The uniform wash
     (`background-glass.webp`) from decisions 91/93 made the rail and the chat chrome nearly
     opaque: "why is the sidebar so white and non-translucent on the frutiger theme now? and the
diff --git a/app/globals.css b/app/globals.css
index 74deede..ad7d4d4 100644
--- a/app/globals.css
+++ b/app/globals.css
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@
       rgb(255 255 255 / 0.09) 100%
     ),
     linear-gradient(rgb(255 255 255 / 0.16), rgb(255 255 255 / 0.16)),
-    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=4");
+    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=5");
   background-size: 100% 100%, 100% 100%, cover;
   background-position: 0 0, 0 0, center 42%;
   background-attachment: scroll, scroll, fixed;
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@
   border-color: rgb(255 255 255 / 0.85);
   background-image:
     linear-gradient(rgb(255 255 255 / 0.3), rgb(255 255 255 / 0.3)),
-    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=4");
+    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=5");
   background-size: 100% 100%, cover;
   background-position: 0 0, center 42%;
   background-attachment: scroll, fixed;
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@
       rgb(255 255 255 / 0.08) 53%,
       rgb(255 255 255 / 0.13) 100%
     ),
-    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=4");
+    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=5");
   background-size: 100% 100%, cover;
   background-position: 0 0, center 42%;
   background-attachment: scroll, fixed;
@@ -631,13 +631,28 @@
   .chat-column { padding-left: 0; }
 }
 
-/* The composer's field: a clean, even glass tile — no wallpaper gradient
-   inside it, just a lighter veil than the panel around it. */
+/* The composer's field: the app's frosted tile plus one light veil, so it
+   reads as a brighter, even glass field inside the panel. Both extremes were
+   wrong: the field's own wallpaper gradient (a blue→green wash) and a flat
+   white fill (a bar on a translucent panel). The heavy blur in the shared
+   backdrop keeps this one clean and even. */
 .aero .chat-composer-band textarea,
 .aero .chat-composer-band input[type="search"] {
-  background-image: none;
-  background-color: rgb(255 255 255 / 0.6);
-  border-color: rgb(255 255 255 / 0.9);
+  background-image:
+    linear-gradient(rgb(255 255 255 / 0.3), rgb(255 255 255 / 0.3)),
+    linear-gradient(
+      180deg,
+      rgb(255 255 255 / 0.15) 0%,
+      rgb(255 255 255 / 0.06) 46%,
+      rgb(255 255 255 / 0.05) 53%,
+      rgb(255 255 255 / 0.09) 100%
+    ),
+    linear-gradient(rgb(255 255 255 / 0.16), rgb(255 255 255 / 0.16)),
+    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=5");
+  background-size: 100% 100%, 100% 100%, 100% 100%, cover;
+  background-position: 0 0, 0 0, 0 0, center 42%;
+  background-attachment: scroll, scroll, scroll, fixed;
+  background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat, no-repeat;
 }
 
 /* Touch devices: flat glass, no bake and no live blur. The baked layer is
@@ -715,7 +730,7 @@
       rgb(255 255 255 / 0.32) 53%,
       rgb(255 255 255 / 0.44) 100%
     ),
-    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=4");
+    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=5");
   background-size: 100% 100%, cover;
   background-position: 0 0, center 42%;
   background-attachment: scroll, fixed;
@@ -730,7 +745,7 @@
       rgb(255 255 255 / 0.32) 53%,
       rgb(255 255 255 / 0.44) 100%
     ),
-    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=4");
+    url("/aero/background-blur.webp?v=5");
   background-size: 100% 100%, cover;
   background-position: 0 0, center 42%;
   background-attachment: scroll, fixed;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 663bc8a..4c8df4c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "freezmo",
-  "version": "0.6.3",
+  "version": "0.6.4",
   "private": true,
   "license": "GPL-3.0-only",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/public/aero/background-blur.webp b/public/aero/background-blur.webp
index 6629495..a9992b4 100644
Binary files a/public/aero/background-blur.webp and b/public/aero/background-blur.webp differ
diff --git a/public/sw.js b/public/sw.js
index f8f9b0e..f86f45c 100644
--- a/public/sw.js
+++ b/public/sw.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  *
  * Bumping CACHE_VERSION is how a new deploy invalidates old assets.
  */
-const CACHE_VERSION = "freezmo-v85";
+const CACHE_VERSION = "freezmo-v86";
 const SHELL_CACHE = `${CACHE_VERSION}-shell`;
 const ASSET_CACHE = `${CACHE_VERSION}-assets`;