diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4ef284c..5a6ef3f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1838,6 +1838,9 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
       try again." on the error line, nothing deleted
     - "I have lost my password" → **DeleteWalletLostPassword**
     - "Back" → previous screen (Settings)
+    - Settings gear → **Settings**, whose "Back" never lands back on this
+      screen: leaving drops the wallet the screen was showing, so it also takes
+      the screen off the Back stack
 
 #### DeleteWalletLostPassword (`delete-wallet-lost-password`)
 
@@ -1876,6 +1879,9 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
       selection comes back with it. The two delete screens are siblings rather
       than parent and child: nothing is pushed on the way here, so both have
       Settings as their Back target.
+    - Settings gear → **Settings**, whose "Back" never lands back on this
+      screen: leaving drops the wallet the screen was showing, so it also takes
+      the screen off the Back stack
 - **Deliberately not password-gated.** A password in front of _discarding_ a
   secret protects nobody: an attacker at the popup who wants the wallet gone can
   uninstall the extension, so the only person such a gate stops is the owner who
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index c60adca..f47bf3c 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ but the review is broader than any of them.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-10-06: Back from Settings no longer lands on the delete wallet or
+  lost-password screen after either was left by the settings gear
+  ([#480](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/480)), the defect
+  [#461](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/461) fixed for the two
+  secret screens. Leaving drops the screen's wallet selection, so its leave
+  handler now also takes it off the Back stack, as a reopened popup already
+  does. `tests/deleteWalletLostPassword.test.js` drives the gear and then Back
+  on both screens.
+
 - 2026-10-06: `script/bootstrap` no longer reports success while node cannot
   find a package listed in `dependencies` or `devDependencies` of `package.json`
   ([#263](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/263)). After the install
diff --git a/src/popup/views/deleteWallet.js b/src/popup/views/deleteWallet.js
index a1e284d..e7bbb89 100644
--- a/src/popup/views/deleteWallet.js
+++ b/src/popup/views/deleteWallet.js
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ function confirmKey(name) {
 }
 
 // Drop the password from the DOM and the wallet selection from the
-// closure. Registered as the view-leave handler as well as run on entry,
-// so the typed password does not sit in the hidden view after the user
-// navigates away by any route, including the Settings gear.
+// closure. Run by the view-leave handler as well as on entry, so the typed
+// password does not sit in the hidden view after the user navigates away
+// by any route, including the Settings gear.
 function clear() {
     deleteWalletIndex = null;
     $("delete-wallet-password").value = "";
@@ -147,8 +147,25 @@ async function finishDelete(walletIdx) {
 function init(_ctx) {
     ctx = _ctx;
 
-    onViewLeave("delete-wallet-confirm", clear);
-    onViewLeave("delete-wallet-lost-password", clearLostPassword);
+    // Leaving drops the wallet selection, so each screen also comes off the
+    // Back stack, where the settings gear has just put it: Back from
+    // Settings must not land on a screen whose button can only answer "No
+    // wallet selected for deletion." A reopened popup drops them from the
+    // stack the same way (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/480).
+    onViewLeave("delete-wallet-confirm", () => {
+        clear();
+        const stack = state.viewStack;
+        if (stack[stack.length - 1] === "delete-wallet-confirm") {
+            stack.pop();
+        }
+    });
+    onViewLeave("delete-wallet-lost-password", () => {
+        clearLostPassword();
+        const stack = state.viewStack;
+        if (stack[stack.length - 1] === "delete-wallet-lost-password") {
+            stack.pop();
+        }
+    });
 
     // No wipe here: goBack() routes through showView(), which runs the
     // leave hook.
diff --git a/tests/deleteWalletLostPassword.test.js b/tests/deleteWalletLostPassword.test.js
index b28c3fe..8e23c2f 100644
--- a/tests/deleteWalletLostPassword.test.js
+++ b/tests/deleteWalletLostPassword.test.js
@@ -615,3 +615,44 @@ describe("the password route's confirm button", () => {
         ]);
     });
 });
+
+// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/480: leaving either delete
+// screen drops its wallet selection, so Back onto one showed a screen whose
+// button could only answer "No wallet selected for deletion."
+describe("Back from Settings after leaving by the settings gear", () => {
+    test("does not land on the delete screen", () => {
+        const { helpers, deleteWallet, state } = load();
+        deleteWallet.show(1);
+        // The settings gear: push the current view, then show Settings.
+        helpers.pushCurrentView();
+        helpers.showView("settings");
+
+        expect(state.viewStack).toEqual(["main", "settings"]);
+        helpers.goBack();
+        expect(state.currentView).not.toBe("delete-wallet-confirm");
+    });
+
+    test("does not land on the lost-password screen", async () => {
+        const { helpers, deleteWallet, state } = load();
+        await openLostPassword(deleteWallet, 1);
+        // The settings gear: push the current view, then show Settings.
+        helpers.pushCurrentView();
+        helpers.showView("settings");
+
+        expect(state.viewStack).toEqual(["main", "settings"]);
+        helpers.goBack();
+        expect(state.currentView).not.toBe(VIEW);
+    });
+
+    // The lost-password screen's own Back is "Back returns to the delete
+    // screen with its wallet still chosen", above.
+    test("the delete screen's own Back leaves the rest of the stack alone", async () => {
+        const { deleteWallet, state } = load();
+        deleteWallet.show(1);
+
+        await click("btn-delete-wallet-back");
+
+        expect(state.currentView).toBe("settings");
+        expect(state.viewStack).toEqual(["main"]);
+    });
+});