diff --git a/apps/photocraft-web/src/web.rs b/apps/photocraft-web/src/web.rs
index 224a2281e1..74f37aaa3d 100644
--- a/apps/photocraft-web/src/web.rs
+++ b/apps/photocraft-web/src/web.rs
@@ -322,6 +322,12 @@ impl WebShell {
 }
 
 impl eframe::App for WebShell {
+    fn raw_input_hook(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, raw_input: &mut egui::RawInput) {
+        // A tap reaches eframe as Pointer Events and Touch Events: keep one press per tap, or the
+        // twin press closes the menu the first one opened (#2095).
+        photocraft_ui_egui::touch_twins::drop_twins(ctx, raw_input);
+    }
+
     fn logic(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, frame: &mut eframe::Frame) {
         let dropped = ctx.input_mut(|i| std::mem::take(&mut i.raw.dropped_files));
         if !dropped.is_empty() {
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
index aa50e03d3b..5ba4326a53 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ pub mod tool_feedback;
 pub(crate) mod tool_memory;
 mod tool_reset;
 mod tool_shortcuts;
+pub mod touch_twins;
 pub mod transform_fx;
 pub mod transform_tex;
 pub mod transform_tool;
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/touch_twins.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/touch_twins.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aee4aa33d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/touch_twins.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+//! One tap, one press (#2095). In the browser eframe turns a finger or pen tap into two presses
+//! and two releases: one pair from Pointer Events (`pointerdown` / `pointerup`) and one from Touch
+//! Events (`touchstart` / `touchend`), which mobile browsers fire for the same contact. A menu
+//! title or press menu toggles on the press, so the second press closed the menu the first had
+//! just opened. [`drop_twins`] keeps the first of each and drops its twin.
+
+use egui::{Event, PointerButton, RawInput};
+
+/// Longest gap, in seconds, between a press and its twin from the other event family (both come
+/// from one contact, normally within a frame or two).
+const TWIN_WINDOW: f64 = 0.5;
+
+/// Drops a primary press that arrives while the primary button is already held (pressed within
+/// [`TWIN_WINDOW`]) and a primary release that arrives while it is already up. A press while held
+/// for longer still passes, so a release the browser never sent can't lock the pointer down.
+/// Call from `raw_input_hook`, before the frame runs.
+pub fn drop_twins(ctx: &egui::Context, raw: &mut RawInput) {
+    let (mut down, mut pressed_at, last) = ctx.input(|i| (i.pointer.primary_down(), i.pointer.press_start_time(), i.time));
+    let now = raw.time.unwrap_or(last + f64::from(raw.predicted_dt));
+    raw.events.retain(|e| {
+        let Event::PointerButton { button: PointerButton::Primary, pressed, .. } = e else { return true };
+        if *pressed != down {
+            down = *pressed;
+            pressed_at = pressed.then_some(now);
+            return true;
+        }
+        // A press while held is a twin only while fresh; a release while up always is.
+        *pressed && !pressed_at.is_some_and(|t| now - t <= TWIN_WINDOW)
+    });
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use egui::{Modifiers, Pos2, pos2};
+
+    fn button(pos: Pos2, pressed: bool) -> Event {
+        Event::PointerButton { pos, button: PointerButton::Primary, pressed, modifiers: Modifiers::NONE }
+    }
+
+    fn touch(pos: Pos2, phase: egui::TouchPhase) -> Event {
+        Event::Touch { device_id: egui::TouchDeviceId(1), id: egui::TouchId(7), phase, pos, force: None }
+    }
+
+    /// One browser tap as eframe delivers it: `pointerdown` runs a frame of its own, then
+    /// `touchstart`, `pointerup` (again a frame of its own) and `touchend`.
+    fn tap_frames(pos: Pos2) -> [Vec<Event>; 4] {
+        [
+            vec![button(pos, true)],
+            vec![button(pos, true), touch(pos, egui::TouchPhase::Start)],
+            vec![button(pos, false)],
+            vec![button(pos, false), Event::PointerGone, touch(pos, egui::TouchPhase::End)],
+        ]
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_tap_opens_a_menu_title_every_time() {
+        use egui_kittest::{Harness, kittest::Queryable};
+
+        let app = crate::PhotocraftApp::new(photocraft_engine::Session::new(), crate::Services::default());
+        let mut harness = Harness::builder().with_size(egui::vec2(1200.0, 700.0)).with_step_dt(1.0 / 60.0).build_ui_state(
+            |ui, app| {
+                crate::menus::menu_bar(app, ui);
+            },
+            app,
+        );
+        crate::PhotocraftApp::setup_context(&harness.ctx, crate::theme::ThemeKind::ALL[0]);
+        harness.run_steps(3);
+        let file = harness.get_by_label("File").rect().center();
+        let ctx = harness.ctx.clone();
+        let tap = |harness: &mut Harness<'_, crate::PhotocraftApp>, dedupe: bool| {
+            for events in tap_frames(file) {
+                harness.input_mut().events = events;
+                if dedupe {
+                    drop_twins(&ctx, harness.input_mut());
+                }
+                harness.step();
+            }
+            harness.run_steps(2);
+            harness.query_by_label_contains("Open…").is_some()
+        };
+        // Without the hook the second press closes the menu the first opened.
+        assert!(!tap(&mut harness, false), "the cause: the twin press closes the menu");
+        assert!(tap(&mut harness, true), "the first tap opens File");
+        assert!(!tap(&mut harness, true), "a second tap closes it");
+        assert!(tap(&mut harness, true), "a third tap opens it again");
+    }
+
+    /// A fast double tap delivered in one frame: each event changes the button's state, so none is
+    /// a twin.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_press_release_press_in_one_frame_keeps_all_three() {
+        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+        let p = pos2(10.0, 10.0);
+        let mut raw = RawInput { time: Some(1.0), events: vec![button(p, true), button(p, false), button(p, true)], ..Default::default() };
+        drop_twins(&ctx, &mut raw);
+        assert_eq!(raw.events.len(), 3);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_press_held_for_long_still_passes() {
+        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+        let p = pos2(10.0, 10.0);
+        let frame = |events: Vec<Event>, time: f64| {
+            let mut raw = RawInput { time: Some(time), events, ..Default::default() };
+            drop_twins(&ctx, &mut raw);
+            let kept = raw.events.clone();
+            ctx.run_ui(raw, |_| {}).textures_delta.clear();
+            kept
+        };
+        assert_eq!(frame(vec![button(p, true)], 1.0).len(), 1);
+        assert!(frame(vec![button(p, true)], 1.1).is_empty(), "the twin press");
+        // The release never came: a later press is a new one, not a twin.
+        assert_eq!(frame(vec![button(p, true)], 3.0).len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(frame(vec![button(p, false), button(p, false)], 3.1).len(), 1, "one release per press");
+        assert!(frame(vec![button(p, false)], 3.2).is_empty(), "a release while up");
+    }
+}