diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardEditor.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardEditor.tsx
index 97687cb..72904c7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardEditor.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardEditor.tsx
@@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ export function DashboardEditor({
         <DashboardView
           dashboard={draft}
           stacked
+          editing={edit}
           renderWidget={edit ? pickable : undefined}
         />
       </div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardView.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardView.tsx
index c147230..0990784 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/DashboardView.tsx
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ export function DashboardView({
   renderWidget,
   stacked,
   rail,
+  editing,
 }: {
   dashboard: Dashboard
   renderWidget?: (widget: WidgetDef) => React.ReactNode
@@ -313,6 +314,9 @@ export function DashboardView({
   stacked?: boolean
   /** Whether the panel carries a rail, which takes a column of the canvas. */
   rail?: boolean
+  /** Being arranged rather than used, so the lock is not mounted — the
+   *  stacked editor draws through here, where the canvas draws its own grid. */
+  editing?: boolean
 }) {
   const all = widgetsOf(dashboard)
   if (all.length === 0) {
@@ -337,20 +341,26 @@ export function DashboardView({
     : all
   const columns = columnsOf(dashboard)
 
+  const grid = (
+    <PaletteProvider dashboard={dashboard}>
+      <WidgetGrid
+        dashboard={dashboard}
+        widgets={widgets}
+        columns={columns}
+        stacked={stacked}
+        rail={rail}
+        renderWidget={renderWidget}
+      />
+    </PaletteProvider>
+  )
+
   return (
     <LookProvider dashboard={dashboard}>
-      <LockedProvider dashboard={dashboard}>
-        <PaletteProvider dashboard={dashboard}>
-          <WidgetGrid
-            dashboard={dashboard}
-            widgets={widgets}
-            columns={columns}
-            stacked={stacked}
-            rail={rail}
-            renderWidget={renderWidget}
-          />
-        </PaletteProvider>
-      </LockedProvider>
+      {editing ? (
+        grid
+      ) : (
+        <LockedProvider dashboard={dashboard}>{grid}</LockedProvider>
+      )}
     </LookProvider>
   )
 }
diff --git a/frontend/tests/mobile.spec.ts b/frontend/tests/mobile.spec.ts
index 78c0011..90921a9 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/mobile.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/mobile.spec.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ const dashboardName = `${flowName}_panel`
 /** What the bar and the forecast read. A flow of its own, so the graph the
  *  editor lays out above stays the shape those assertions were written for. */
 const feedName = `${flowName}_feed`
+/** A read-only dashboard, on its own so the width checks above keep a live one. */
+const lockedName = `${flowName}_locked`
 
 test.describe.configure({ mode: "serial" })
 
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ test.beforeAll(async ({ browser }) => {
             // this whole name in the chart's legend.
             { name: "climate_series_reading", dtype: "float" },
             { name: "mode", dtype: "str" },
+            { name: "lamp", dtype: "bool" },
           ],
         },
       ],
@@ -269,12 +272,37 @@ test.beforeAll(async ({ browser }) => {
     method: "POST",
     data: { version: draft.version },
   })
+
+  const locked = await (
+    await api(page, `/dashboards/${lockedName}`, { method: "POST" })
+  ).json()
+  locked.settings = { ...(locked.settings ?? {}), locked: { value: true } }
+  locked.widgets = [
+    {
+      id: "lamp",
+      type: "switch",
+      title: "Lamp",
+      layout: { lg: { x: 0, y: 0, w: 3, h: 2 } },
+      config: { target: `${feedName}.lamp`, dtype: "bool", style: "button" },
+    },
+  ]
+  const lockedDraft = await (
+    await api(page, `/dashboards/${lockedName}`, {
+      method: "PUT",
+      data: locked,
+    })
+  ).json()
+  await api(page, `/dashboards/${lockedName}/publish`, {
+    method: "POST",
+    data: { version: lockedDraft.version },
+  })
   await page.close()
 })
 
 test.afterAll(async ({ browser }) => {
   await deleteAll(browser, [
     `/dashboards/${dashboardName}`,
+    `/dashboards/${lockedName}`,
     `/flows/${flowName}`,
     `/flows/${feedName}`,
   ])
@@ -360,6 +388,27 @@ test("a dashboard stacks instead of shrinking", async ({ page }) => {
   expect(second!.y).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(first!.y + first!.height - 1)
 })
 
+/**
+ * A read-only dashboard, read and arranged at a phone's width.
+ *
+ * Stacked, both modes draw through `DashboardView` — where the canvas hands
+ * editing to its own grid instead — so the lock has to follow the mode rather
+ * than the page. Arranging a dashboard is not using it.
+ */
+test("a locked dashboard locks when read, not while arranged", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  const lamp = page.getByRole("button", { name: "Lamp" })
+
+  await page.goto(`/dashboards/${lockedName}`)
+  await lamp.waitFor({ timeout: 15000 })
+  await expect(lamp, "a locked dashboard being read").toBeDisabled()
+
+  await page.goto(`/dashboards/${lockedName}?edit=true`)
+  await lamp.waitFor({ timeout: 15000 })
+  await expect(lamp, "a locked dashboard being arranged").toBeEnabled()
+})
+
 test("the panel view fits the viewport", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto(`/view/${dashboardName}`)
   await page.waitForSelector("[data-testid=widget-frame]", { timeout: 15000 })