diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5e65982..ac203ba 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1525,7 +1525,13 @@ Things I chose while building, with the reasoning:
     down, a male name preferred — "preferably male" was the ask), the player picks the best one
     automatically and offers a picker for everything in the episode's language, and the choice is
     remembered per language. The suite grew to 34 checks (voice ranking, the filtered picker,
-    persisting a pick, same-line silence, line following, manual-scroll suspension).
+    persisting a pick, same-line silence, line following, manual-scroll suspension). **Follow-up
+    2 (0.7.5):** iOS is the special case the picker cannot fix — Safari hands web pages one voice
+    per language, so on an iPhone the panel now carries the settings path instead (Accessibility →
+    Spoken Content → Voices → language → Enhanced/Premium, set as preferred) and the speaker
+    button wears an amber dot while that note is waiting; the voice-less banner appends the same
+    guidance. Detected via the user agent (iPadOS included through `maxTouchPoints`); the suite
+    fakes an iPhone and pins the note, its steps and the dot (37 checks).
 
 102. **An API key is not a login.** "When trying to use a different provider on the web app it
     glitches out completely" — a photo of the first-run gate with iOS's saved-password sheet laid
diff --git a/components/podcast/PodcastPlayer.tsx b/components/podcast/PodcastPlayer.tsx
index 8462625..53b7c51 100644
--- a/components/podcast/PodcastPlayer.tsx
+++ b/components/podcast/PodcastPlayer.tsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import { savePodcastProgress } from "@/lib/podcasts";
 import {
   bestVoice,
   getStoredVoice,
+  isAppleMobile,
   onlyRoboticVoices,
   platformVoices,
   setStoredVoice,
@@ -103,6 +104,12 @@ export function PodcastPlayer({ episode }: { episode: Podcast }) {
     () => onlyRoboticVoices(voiceLocale, voiceList),
     [voiceLocale, voiceList],
   );
+  /* iOS hands the page one voice per language; point at the settings that
+     change it (the note is the whole reason this section exists there). */
+  const iosLimited = useMemo(
+    () => isAppleMobile() && availableVoices.length <= 1,
+    [availableVoices.length],
+  );
   /** Latest position for the unmount/pause save, without re-creating callbacks. */
   const latest = useRef<PodcastVoice | null>(episode.progress ?? null);
 
@@ -376,13 +383,19 @@ export function PodcastPlayer({ episode }: { episode: Podcast }) {
               aria-expanded={voiceOpen}
               title={voice?.name ?? t("podcast.voiceAria")}
               className={cn(
-                "grid size-10 shrink-0 place-items-center rounded-full transition",
+                "relative grid size-10 shrink-0 place-items-center rounded-full transition",
                 voiceOpen
                   ? "bg-[var(--nav-active-bg)] text-[var(--text)]"
                   : "bg-[var(--surface-sunken)] text-[var(--text-muted)] hover:bg-[var(--hover)]",
               )}
             >
               <SpeakerIcon className="size-4" />
+              {iosLimited ? (
+                <span
+                  aria-hidden
+                  className="absolute -right-0.5 -top-0.5 size-2.5 rounded-full bg-amber-400 ring-2 ring-[var(--page)]"
+                />
+              ) : null}
             </button>
           ) : null}
           <button
@@ -416,6 +429,7 @@ export function PodcastPlayer({ episode }: { episode: Podcast }) {
           {!supported || unsupported ? (
             <p className="rounded-2xl border border-amber-300/50 bg-amber-50/70 px-3.5 py-3 text-[12.5px] leading-relaxed text-amber-800 dark:border-amber-400/25 dark:bg-amber-400/10 dark:text-amber-200">
               {t("podcast.noVoice")}
+              {isAppleMobile() ? ` ${t("podcast.voiceIos")}` : ""}
             </p>
           ) : null}
 
@@ -533,9 +547,11 @@ export function PodcastPlayer({ episode }: { episode: Podcast }) {
                   );
                 })}
                 <p className="px-1 pt-1 text-[11.5px] leading-relaxed text-[var(--text-subtle)]">
-                  {roboticOnly
-                    ? t("podcast.voiceRobotic")
-                    : t("podcast.voiceNote")}
+                  {iosLimited
+                    ? t("podcast.voiceIos")
+                    : roboticOnly
+                      ? t("podcast.voiceRobotic")
+                      : t("podcast.voiceNote")}
                 </p>
               </div>
             </div>
diff --git a/lib/i18n-dict.ts b/lib/i18n-dict.ts
index 6fe5689..1f7714a 100644
--- a/lib/i18n-dict.ts
+++ b/lib/i18n-dict.ts
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ const en: Record<string, string> = {
   "podcast.voiceAuto": "Automatic (best available)",
   "podcast.voiceLocal": "installed",
   "podcast.voiceNote": "Voices come from your browser and system — pick the one that sounds best to you.",
+  "podcast.voiceIos": "On iPhone, Safari offers web pages a single voice per language — the system's preferred one. For more (and better) voices: Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → your language, download a voice in Enhanced or Premium quality and make it the preferred one. Freezmo then reads with it.",
   "podcast.voiceRobotic": "Only the basic system voices are installed. For a natural host voice, add one in your system settings (Windows: Speech; macOS: Spoken Content; Chrome ships the Google voices).",
   "podcast.tapToJump": "Tap any word to jump there.",
   "podcast.noVoice": "This browser has no speech voice installed, so the transcript cannot be read aloud here. You can still read along.",
@@ -1378,6 +1379,7 @@ const cs: Record<string, string> = {
   "podcast.voiceAuto": "Automaticky (nejlepší dostupný)",
   "podcast.voiceLocal": "nainstalovaný",
   "podcast.voiceNote": "Hlasy dodává prohlížeč a systém — vyber si ten, co zní nejlíp.",
+  "podcast.voiceIos": "Na iPhonu nabízí Safari webovým stránkám jen jeden hlas na jazyk — ten preferovaný v systému. Pro další (a lepší) hlasy: Nastavení → Zpřístupnění → Mluvený obsah → Hlasy → tvůj jazyk, stáhni si hlas ve verzi Vylepšený nebo Prémiový a nastav ho jako preferovaný. Freezmo pak čte s ním.",
   "podcast.voiceRobotic": "Jsou nainstalované jen základní systémové hlasy. Pro přirozený hlas moderátora si nějaký přidej v nastavení systému (Windows: Řeč; macOS: Mluvený obsah; Chrome má hlasy Google).",
   "podcast.tapToJump": "Klikni na kterékoli slovo a přeskočíš tam.",
   "podcast.noVoice": "Tento prohlížeč nemá nainstalovaný hlas, takže se přepis nedá přečíst nahlas. Číst ho ale můžeš dál.",
diff --git a/lib/podcast-voices.ts b/lib/podcast-voices.ts
index f2f013b..b4ff5bc 100644
--- a/lib/podcast-voices.ts
+++ b/lib/podcast-voices.ts
@@ -229,3 +229,16 @@ export function onlyRoboticVoices(locale: string, voices?: SpeechSynthesisVoice[
 }
 
 export const MALE_VOICE_HINTS = MALE_NAMES;
+
+/**
+ * iPhone/iPad (all iOS browsers are WebKit): Safari hands web pages a single
+ * voice per language — the system's preferred one — no matter how many are
+ * installed, so the picker needs to say where to get a better one.
+ */
+export function isAppleMobile(): boolean {
+  if (typeof navigator === "undefined") return false;
+  const ua = navigator.userAgent;
+  if (/iPhone|iPod/.test(ua)) return true;
+  /* iPadOS 13+ reports as a Mac; the touch points give it away. */
+  return /iPad/.test(ua) || (/Macintosh/.test(ua) && navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1);
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 572e976..978048e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "freezmo",
-  "version": "0.7.4",
+  "version": "0.7.5",
   "private": true,
   "license": "GPL-3.0-only",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/public/sw.js b/public/sw.js
index 6ec2e7c..86d4ed5 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-v96";
+const CACHE_VERSION = "freezmo-v97";
 const SHELL_CACHE = `${CACHE_VERSION}-shell`;
 const ASSET_CACHE = `${CACHE_VERSION}-assets`;
 
diff --git a/tests/podcast-test.mjs b/tests/podcast-test.mjs
index ef89119..d918eeb 100644
--- a/tests/podcast-test.mjs
+++ b/tests/podcast-test.mjs
@@ -329,6 +329,45 @@ try {
   await context.close();
 }
 
+/* 4b2. an iPhone gets told where the other voices live -------------- */
+{
+  const { context, page } = await makePage(browser, { width: 390, height: 844, deviceScaleFactor: 1, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });
+  /* Safari's shape: one voice for the language, whatever is installed. */
+  await page.addInitScript(() => {
+    Object.defineProperty(navigator, "userAgent", {
+      configurable: true,
+      get: () => "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+    });
+    window.__spoken = [];
+    const voices = [{ name: "Daniel", lang: "en-GB", voiceURI: "daniel", localService: true, default: true }];
+    class FakeUtterance {
+      constructor(text) { this.text = String(text); this.rate = 1; this.lang = "en-US"; this.voice = null; }
+    }
+    Object.defineProperty(window, "SpeechSynthesisUtterance", { configurable: true, value: FakeUtterance });
+    Object.defineProperty(window, "speechSynthesis", {
+      configurable: true,
+      value: { speak(u) { queueMicrotask(() => u.onstart?.({ name: "start", charIndex: 0 })); }, cancel() {}, getVoices: () => voices, addEventListener() {}, removeEventListener() {}, speaking: false, paused: false },
+    });
+  });
+  await seed(page, { decks: [], theme: "dark", extra: { "freezmo.podcasts.v1": JSON.stringify([EPISODE_RECORD]) } });
+  await page.goto(`${APP}/podcast/pod_local`, { waitUntil: "networkidle" });
+  await page.waitForTimeout(1000);
+
+  const voiceButton = page.getByRole("button", { name: "Voice" });
+  const badge = await voiceButton.evaluate((element) => Boolean(element.querySelector("span[aria-hidden]")));
+  check("ios: the voice button carries a hint dot", badge);
+  await voiceButton.click();
+  await page.waitForTimeout(300);
+  const note = await page.getByText(/Spoken Content/).count();
+  check("ios: the picker explains where to add voices", note === 1, String(note));
+  const steps = await page.evaluate(() => {
+    const text = [...document.querySelectorAll("p")].map((el) => el.textContent ?? "").find((entry) => entry.includes("Spoken Content")) ?? "";
+    return { settings: text.includes("Settings"), accessibility: text.includes("Accessibility"), premium: text.includes("Enhanced") || text.includes("Premium") };
+  });
+  check("ios: the note names the actual settings path", steps.settings && steps.accessibility && steps.premium, JSON.stringify(steps));
+  await context.close();
+}
+
 /* 4c. the transcript follows by line, and yields to a manual scroll --- */
 {
   const { context, page } = await makePage(browser, { width: 390, height: 700, deviceScaleFactor: 1, isMobile: true, hasTouch: true });