diff --git a/src/app/TerminalApp.ts b/src/app/TerminalApp.ts
index 2cf3ca81..1f28cedc 100644
--- a/src/app/TerminalApp.ts
+++ b/src/app/TerminalApp.ts
@@ -424,6 +424,8 @@ const WARNING = lazyForeground(UI_COLORS.warning);
 const ERROR = lazyForeground(UI_COLORS.failure);
 /** How long after Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Z typing is taken as type-ahead for the shell prompt rather than queued. */
 const STOP_TYPE_AHEAD_MS = 2000;
+/** The narrowest wait headline kept whole beside the queue's tail; narrower, the tail becomes a bare count. */
+const MIN_WAIT_HEADLINE = 18;
 /**
  * Keys held for an on-demand look at the running command's input state are routed when the look answers. A look is
  * itself bounded (two probes of at most 1.5 s each); this only guards against an answer that never comes.
@@ -11599,10 +11601,17 @@ export class TerminalApp {
     // A wait reads top to bottom (headline, then the question) wherever the composer is docked.
     if (request) {
       const rows = inputActivityRows({...this.inputState!, request}, this.running.command, this.running.startedAt, this.activityAnimationNow, columns);
-      const count = this.queueAvailable() ? this.queueState.entries.length : 0;
-      // The question keeps both rows; the queue is a count at the end of the headline, when it fits.
-      const tail = count ? `${SUBTLE} · ${queueGlyph()} ${count} queued${RESET}` : '';
-      if (tail && rows[0] !== undefined && displayWidth(stripAnsi(rows[0])) + displayWidth(stripAnsi(tail)) <= columns) rows[0] += tail;
+      const entries = this.queueAvailable() ? this.queueState.entries : [];
+      // The question keeps both rows and the queue's list steps aside (QA F03): the headline still says the queue is
+      // there, and when its entries now wait for approval. The headline is shortened before the tail is, and a bare
+      // count is the last resort, so the queue never seems to vanish.
+      if (entries.length && rows[0] !== undefined) {
+        const approval = entries.filter(entry => entry.condition === 'approve' && !entry.approved).length;
+        const tails = [`${queueGlyph()} ${entries.length} queued${approval ? ` · ${approval} for approval` : ''}`, `${queueGlyph()} ${entries.length}`];
+        const tail = tails.find(text => columns - displayWidth(text) - 3 >= MIN_WAIT_HEADLINE) ?? tails[1]!;
+        const room = Math.max(1, columns - displayWidth(tail) - 3);
+        rows[0] = `${truncateAnsi(rows[0], room)}${SUBTLE} · ${tail}${RESET}`;
+      }
       return rows.map(row => truncateAnsi(row, columns));
     }
     const activity = truncateAnsi(this.currentActivity(), columns);
diff --git a/tests/queueWhileWaiting.test.ts b/tests/queueWhileWaiting.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..35422009
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queueWhileWaiting.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import type {QueueOp} from '../src/session/CommandQueue.js';
+import {displayWidth, stripAnsi} from '../src/util/text.js';
+import {executionFrameFixture} from './support/executionTimelineFrames.js';
+
+/**
+ * QA F03 (v0.22 physical QA, A9): while a program waits for input, its question takes the activity rows and the queue's
+ * list steps aside (intentional: the question needs both rows and the person's attention, and nothing may draw what is
+ * typed for it). The queue must still be visibly there: the headline keeps a queue tail at every width, shortening the
+ * headline before dropping it, and says when queued commands now wait for approval, so the list that returns after the
+ * question holds no surprise.
+ */
+function waiting(columns: number, command = 'sh -c "sleep 1; read -rs p; echo done"') {
+  const f = executionFrameFixture(columns, 30);
+  Object.defineProperty(f.session, 'queue', {value: (op: QueueOp) => { f.owner.request(op); }, configurable: true});
+  Object.defineProperty(f.session, 'write', {value: () => {}, configurable: true});
+  f.begin(command);
+  f.app['session'].queue({op: 'add', text: 'echo early'});
+  f.app['session'].queue({op: 'add', text: 'echo later'});
+  f.tick(300);
+  f.session.emit('inputState', {request: {since: Date.now(), confidence: 'confirmed', mode: 'hidden'}, timing: {waitedMs: 0, waits: 0}});
+  f.tick(300);
+  const rows = f.capture().frame.rows.map(row => stripAnsi(row));
+  return {f, rows, headline: rows.find(row => /Waiting for input/u.test(row)) ?? ''};
+}
+
+test('F03: while a program waits, the headline says the queue is there and that its entries now wait for approval', async () => {
+  const {f, headline} = waiting(110);
+  try {
+    await new Promise(done => setImmediate(done));
+    const again = f.capture().frame.rows.map(row => stripAnsi(row)).find(row => /Waiting for input/u.test(row)) ?? headline;
+    assert.match(again, /≡ 2 queued · 2 for approval/u);
+  } finally { f.dispose(); }
+});
+
+test('F03: at narrow widths the queue tail stays: the headline is shortened first, then the tail becomes a count', async () => {
+  for (const columns of [52, 40, 30]) {
+    const {f} = waiting(columns, 'a-program-with-a-rather-long-name --and arguments');
+    try {
+      await new Promise(done => setImmediate(done));
+      const rows = f.capture().frame.rows.map(row => stripAnsi(row));
+      const headline = rows.find(row => /Waiting|◆/u.test(row)) ?? '';
+      assert.match(headline, /≡ 2/u, `${columns}: ${headline}`);
+      for (const row of rows) assert.ok(displayWidth(row) <= columns, `${columns}: ${row}`);
+    } finally { f.dispose(); }
+  }
+});