diff --git a/apps/desktop/test/companion.test.ts b/apps/desktop/test/companion.test.ts
index 5ae5c2a5..8290eeb2 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/test/companion.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/test/companion.test.ts
@@ -505,4 +505,8 @@ test("companion fallback makes uncertain and resolving deliveries explicit witho
   const approval = mobileItem({ id: "approval", kind: "approval", question: "Deploy?", answer: "yes", delivery: "uncertain", at: "now" });
   assert.equal(approval.kind, "notice");
   assert.match(String(approval.text), /Delivery uncertain/);
+  // A withdrawn approval closes as "no"; a phone that reads only `answer` must not show it declined (CF-6 #279, finding 7).
+  const withdrawn = mobileItem({ id: "approval", kind: "approval", question: "Deploy?", answer: "no", withdrawn: "native", at: "now" });
+  assert.equal(withdrawn.kind, "notice");
+  assert.match(String(withdrawn.text), /Request withdrawn/);
 });
diff --git a/docs/human-requests.md b/docs/human-requests.md
index 7aa4d9a8..7de6f782 100644
--- a/docs/human-requests.md
+++ b/docs/human-requests.md
@@ -220,9 +220,10 @@ paired desktops and the phone carry it with no new event type. This is the reque
   `withdrawn`). Nothing replayed, reloaded or reconnected answers a request.
 - **Two clients at once.** The desktop and the phone race through one broker: one answer is accepted,
   the card names who gave it, and the other is refused, with a 409 for the phone.
-- **The phone** gets `answeredBy`, `delivery` and `withdrawn` on approvals. Today's iPhone build reads
-  only `answer`, so a withdrawn approval still reads as declined there. A question's notice says when
-  delivery is uncertain.
+- **The phone** gets `answeredBy` and `delivery` on an open or answered approval. A withdrawn, sending
+  or uncertain approval reaches it as a notice that says so ("Request withdrawn. Nothing more can be
+  approved."), so the iPhone app no longer shows a withdrawn approval as declined. A question's notice
+  says when delivery is uncertain.
 - **Who answered** is the client that made the decision: this Mac's window (`desktop`), a desktop
   paired through the host (`paired-desktop`), or the phone. Switching a thread to YOLO answers what is
   waiting as whichever of them switched it.