diff --git a/js/app.js b/js/app.js
index 00bb14d..28a98cb 100644
--- a/js/app.js
+++ b/js/app.js
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ const Bridge = (() => {
             }
             let tp = '';
             if (combos.totp) {
+                // (see suspendHotkeys below for why vk=0 matters)
                 const t = autofillComboToWin32(combos.totp);
                 tp = '&totp_mods=' + t.mods + '&totp_vk=' + t.vk;
             }
@@ -215,9 +216,18 @@ const Bridge = (() => {
                 '&pwd_mods='  + p.mods + '&pwd_vk='  + p.vk + qs + ne + tp);
         },
 
-        // Called by Delphi after a setAutofillHotkeys request, with true if
-        // BOTH combos registered successfully, false otherwise (clash with
-        // another app holding a global hotkey). Surfaces a toast.
+        // Release ALL five global hotkeys while the Settings capture is armed.
+        // A RegisterHotKey combo never reaches the WebView — Windows delivers
+        // it to the owning window — so a combo we hold can't be captured, and
+        // pressing it would FIRE that hotkey mid-capture. vk=0 unregisters a
+        // slot without re-registering it (and is excluded from the failure
+        // report). autofillPushHotkeys() restores everything afterwards.
+        suspendHotkeys() {
+            if (!active) return;
+            cmd('cmd://autofill/hotkeys?enabled=0' +
+                '&qs_mods=0&qs_vk=0&ne_mods=0&ne_vk=0');
+        },
+
         // `failed` = comma-separated SLOT IDS Windows refused (another app
         // already owns them); empty string = all registered. A clashing hotkey
         // is otherwise indistinguishable from a broken feature — it silently
@@ -7707,6 +7717,10 @@ async function init() {
             btn.classList.add('is-capturing');
             const original = btn.textContent;
             btn.textContent = 'Press combo… (Esc to cancel)';
+            // Free our own combos so they reach this listener instead of
+            // firing their hotkey. Restored by finish() / the success path.
+            hotkeyPushSilent = true;
+            Bridge.suspendHotkeys();
 
             // A combo already owned by another app via RegisterHotKey is
             // swallowed by Windows — it is delivered to that app, never to us,
@@ -7725,7 +7739,12 @@ async function init() {
                 btn.dataset.capturing = '';
                 btn.classList.remove('is-capturing');
                 document.removeEventListener('keydown', onKey, true);
-                if (restore) btn.textContent = original;
+                if (restore) {
+                    btn.textContent = original;
+                    // Cancelled / timed out: nothing changed, so re-register the
+                    // combos we suspended — quietly, it's not a user action.
+                    autofillPushHotkeys(true);
+                }
             }
 
             function onKey(e) {