diff --git a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Bar.tsx b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Bar.tsx
index 6fe4292404..c6bc5244c0 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Bar.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Bar.tsx
@@ -428,7 +428,12 @@ function Bar({
             <RoundButton
               label={dictating ? localize('com_ui_stop') : localize('com_ui_use_micrphone')}
               onClick={dictating ? dictation.stopToComposer : dictation.start}
-              disabled={speechDisabled && !dictating}
+              /* Once the take is handed to the transcriber there is nothing left
+                 to stop, and pressing either of these again would only rewrite
+                 how a take that has already been committed gets spent. Cancel,
+                 on the `+`, stays live: an external transcription in flight can
+                 still be thrown away. */
+              disabled={(speechDisabled && !dictating) || dictation.transcribing}
             >
               {dictating ? (
                 <Square className="size-4 fill-current" aria-hidden="true" />
@@ -442,6 +447,7 @@ function Bar({
               primary
               label={localize('com_nav_send_message')}
               onClick={dictation.stopAndSend}
+              disabled={dictation.transcribing}
             >
               <SendIcon size={18} />
             </RoundButton>
diff --git a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Queue.tsx b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Queue.tsx
index 802147d670..9e84e99115 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Queue.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/Queue.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import { memo, useRef, useMemo, useState, useCallback } from 'react';
 import { useRecoilValue } from 'recoil';
 import { useDrag, useDrop } from 'react-dnd';
-import { useMediaQuery } from '@librechat/client';
 import { X, Pencil, GripVertical } from 'lucide-react';
+import { useMediaQuery, useToastContext } from '@librechat/client';
 import type { TMessage } from 'librechat-data-provider';
 import type { SteeringControls, QueuedMessageContext } from '~/hooks/Chat/useSteering';
 import type { QueuedMessage } from '~/store/families';
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ function QueueRow({
   onAnnounce,
 }: QueueRowProps) {
   const localize = useLocalize();
+  const { showToast } = useToastContext();
   const rowRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   const gripRef = useRef<HTMLButtonElement>(null);
   const { reorderQueued, restoreQueuedOrder } = steering;
@@ -241,7 +242,15 @@ function QueueRow({
           );
           if (restored) {
             steering.removeQueued(message.id);
+            return;
           }
+          /* Refusing silently reads as a dead button: the row stays, nothing
+             moves, and the reason (a draft in the box, another chat on screen)
+             is somewhere the click was not. */
+          showToast({
+            message: localize('com_ui_queue_remove_blocked'),
+            status: 'warning',
+          });
         }}
         className={ICON_BTN}
       >
diff --git a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/__tests__/Queue.spec.tsx b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/__tests__/Queue.spec.tsx
index 2067f33593..fb49d41014 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/__tests__/Queue.spec.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/Composer/__tests__/Queue.spec.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ jest.mock('~/hooks', () => ({
   },
 }));
 
+const mockShowToast = jest.fn();
+jest.mock('@librechat/client', () => ({
+  ...jest.requireActual('@librechat/client'),
+  useToastContext: () => ({ showToast: mockShowToast }),
+}));
+
 const CONVO_ID = 'convo-1';
 const mockSendQueuedNow = jest.fn();
 const mockRemoveQueued = jest.fn();
@@ -184,6 +190,11 @@ describe('Queue', () => {
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText('com_ui_remove_queued'));
     expect(onRestore).toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(mockRemoveQueued).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    /* Keeping the words is right; saying nothing about it is not. Without this
+       the row simply does not react and the button reads as broken. */
+    expect(mockShowToast).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({ message: 'com_ui_queue_remove_blocked' }),
+    );
   });
 
   it('hands the whole message to the composer to edit', () => {
diff --git a/client/src/hooks/Chat/useSteering.ts b/client/src/hooks/Chat/useSteering.ts
index 85e1b2ea3c..0de2c640ab 100644
--- a/client/src/hooks/Chat/useSteering.ts
+++ b/client/src/hooks/Chat/useSteering.ts
@@ -381,12 +381,9 @@ export default function useSteering({
   visibleConversationRef.current = conversationId;
 
   /**
-   * How each conversation's last run ended, kept because `useQueueDrain`
-   * CONSUMES the one-shot signal — by the time a reclaim resolves it is already
-   * gone. Every subscriber renders before the drain's effect nulls it, so the
-   * outcome is captured first. Both carriers are watched: the index signal, and
-   * the copy parked under the conversation when the run ended while the user
-   * was looking elsewhere.
+   * The most recent run end seen for a conversation: either the live one for
+   * this pane's index, or the copy parked under the conversation when the run
+   * ended while the user was looking elsewhere.
    *
    * Keyed by conversation because this hook is REUSED across chats: a single
    * slot would answer for whichever chat is on screen when the reclaim lands,
diff --git a/client/src/hooks/Input/__tests__/useDictation.spec.tsx b/client/src/hooks/Input/__tests__/useDictation.spec.tsx
index b191b1446f..c611e7ce27 100644
--- a/client/src/hooks/Input/__tests__/useDictation.spec.tsx
+++ b/client/src/hooks/Input/__tests__/useDictation.spec.tsx
@@ -160,6 +160,29 @@ describe('useDictation', () => {
     expect(ask).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   });
 
+  /* The bar disables stop and send once a take is being transcribed, and the
+     hook refuses them too: a second stop would rewrite how a take that was
+     already committed gets spent. */
+  it('ignores a stop that arrives after the take has ended', async () => {
+    const { result, rerender, currentText } = setup();
+    act(() => result.current.start());
+    mockIsListening = true;
+    act(() => rerender());
+
+    act(() => mockSetTextCallback('already committed'));
+    act(() => result.current.stopToComposer());
+    mockIsListening = false;
+    act(() => rerender());
+
+    mockStop.mockClear();
+    act(() => result.current.stopAndSend());
+    await settle(rerender);
+
+    expect(mockStop).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(ask).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(currentText()).toBe('already committed');
+  });
+
   it('keeps the draft when a cancelled external transcription lands anyway', async () => {
     mockSpeechEndpoint = 'external';
     const { result, rerender, currentText } = setup({ draft: 'my unsent draft' });
diff --git a/client/src/hooks/Input/useComposerHint.ts b/client/src/hooks/Input/useComposerHint.ts
index a87e546a2d..37a7033741 100644
--- a/client/src/hooks/Input/useComposerHint.ts
+++ b/client/src/hooks/Input/useComposerHint.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import type { TranslationKeys } from '~/hooks/useLocalize';
 import type { LocalizeFunction } from '~/common';
 import { isMacPlatform } from '~/utils/shortcuts';
 import useLocalize from '~/hooks/useLocalize';
diff --git a/client/src/hooks/Input/useDictation.ts b/client/src/hooks/Input/useDictation.ts
index ab5e0d9083..5f39dc65af 100644
--- a/client/src/hooks/Input/useDictation.ts
+++ b/client/src/hooks/Input/useDictation.ts
@@ -201,8 +201,17 @@ export default function useDictation({
     startRecording();
   }, [getValues, startRecording]);
 
+  /* Only a running take can be stopped. The bar disables these controls once a
+     transcription is in flight, and this is the same rule stated where the mode
+     is actually written: a second stop would otherwise rewrite how a take that
+     was already committed gets spent. */
+  const activeRef = useRef(active);
+  activeRef.current = active;
   const stopWith = useCallback(
     (mode: StopMode) => {
+      if (!activeRef.current) {
+        return;
+      }
       modeRef.current = mode;
       setSettling(true);
       if (mode === 'send') {
diff --git a/client/src/hooks/Plugins/useToolToggle.ts b/client/src/hooks/Plugins/useToolToggle.ts
index 72f3674908..2b90675513 100644
--- a/client/src/hooks/Plugins/useToolToggle.ts
+++ b/client/src/hooks/Plugins/useToolToggle.ts
@@ -162,17 +162,37 @@ export function useToolToggle({
     [handleChange],
   );
 
-  return {
-    toggleState: toolValue, // Return the actual value from ephemeralAgent
-    handleChange,
-    isToolEnabled,
-    toolValue,
-    setToggleState: (value: ToolValue) => handleChange({ value }), // Adapter for direct setting
-    ephemeralAgent,
-    debouncedChange,
-    setEphemeralAgent,
-    authData: authQuery?.data,
-    isPinned,
-    setIsPinned,
-  };
+  const setToggleState = useCallback((value: ToolValue) => handleChange({ value }), [handleChange]);
+
+  /* Memoized because `BadgeRowContext` puts six of these in a context value that
+     the composer palette derives its whole catalog from: a fresh object here on
+     every render made that value change on every keystroke, whatever the
+     provider did about it. */
+  return useMemo(
+    () => ({
+      toggleState: toolValue, // Return the actual value from ephemeralAgent
+      handleChange,
+      isToolEnabled,
+      toolValue,
+      setToggleState, // Adapter for direct setting
+      ephemeralAgent,
+      debouncedChange,
+      setEphemeralAgent,
+      authData: authQuery?.data,
+      isPinned,
+      setIsPinned,
+    }),
+    [
+      toolValue,
+      handleChange,
+      isToolEnabled,
+      setToggleState,
+      ephemeralAgent,
+      debouncedChange,
+      setEphemeralAgent,
+      authQuery?.data,
+      isPinned,
+      setIsPinned,
+    ],
+  );
 }
diff --git a/client/src/locales/en/translation.json b/client/src/locales/en/translation.json
index 2729d14c2b..fdb61cae27 100644
--- a/client/src/locales/en/translation.json
+++ b/client/src/locales/en/translation.json
@@ -1621,6 +1621,7 @@
   "com_ui_question_unanswered": "No answer was given",
   "com_ui_queue": "Queue",
   "com_ui_queue_moved": "Moved to {{0}} of {{1}}",
+  "com_ui_queue_remove_blocked": "Clear the message box in this chat to take this message back.",
   "com_ui_queue_reorder": "Reorder message, {{0}} of {{1}}",
   "com_ui_queue_reorder_hint": "Use the up and down arrow keys to move this message in the queue.",
   "com_ui_queue_send": "Queue message for after the response",