diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b7918fb..653f910 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,3 +24,28 @@ cycle through the spectrum.
 | Color speed | 1.00× | 0.0–3.0 | Hue cycling rate. `0.00×` freezes each shape on its starting color. |
 
 Settings are stored per user through `ScreenSaverDefaults` under `jp.winebarrel.Macstify`.
+
+## Known issue: the Options button does nothing
+
+On macOS 26 the Options button stops responding, reliably if you switch the screen
+saver away and back. Nothing appears, and nothing is logged.
+
+This is a bug in the host, not in the saver. System Settings spawns duplicate
+`legacyScreenSaver` instances and loses track of them, so the configure sheet is
+handed over, attached and ordered in — against a remote view window that is no
+longer on screen. Traced from inside a screen saver bundle, the sheet reports
+`isVisible == true` with a live `sheetParent`, while `occlusionState` never gains
+`.visible`: attached to a ghost, and never drawn. Which window the host attaches
+the sheet to is not something `configureSheet` can influence.
+
+Apple has it as FB19201567, along with FB19204084 for the `ScreenSaverView`
+instances that pile up alongside; neither is fixed as of 26.1b3. See
+[macOS 26 Tahoe Screen Saver issues](https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/787444).
+
+Until it is fixed, restart the host:
+
+```sh
+killall legacyScreenSaver
+```
+
+then quit System Settings and open it again.
diff --git a/Sources/ConfigureSheetController.swift b/Sources/ConfigureSheetController.swift
index a505735..2c41000 100644
--- a/Sources/ConfigureSheetController.swift
+++ b/Sources/ConfigureSheetController.swift
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ final class ConfigureSheetController: NSObject {
 
     let window: NSWindow
 
-    private var settings = MacstifySettings.standard
+    private var settings = MacstifySettings.load()
     private let onDismiss: (_ saved: Bool) -> Void
     private var rows: [Row] = []
 
@@ -33,17 +33,10 @@ final class ConfigureSheetController: NSObject {
         super.init()
         window.title = "Macstify"
         // ARC owns this window through `window`; leaving the default on would
-        // let a host that closes the sheet release it a second time.
+        // let a host that closes the sheet rather than ordering it out release
+        // it a second time.
         window.isReleasedWhenClosed = false
         buildInterface()
-        reload()
-    }
-
-    /// Re-reads the saved settings into the controls. The same sheet is handed
-    /// to the host every time it asks, so this is what makes the second opening
-    /// show what is stored rather than where the first one was left.
-    func reload() {
-        settings = .load()
         refresh()
     }
 
diff --git a/Sources/MacstifyView.swift b/Sources/MacstifyView.swift
index b4027b8..e0db4ac 100644
--- a/Sources/MacstifyView.swift
+++ b/Sources/MacstifyView.swift
@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ import ScreenSaver
 @objc(MacstifyView)
 final class MacstifyView: ScreenSaverView {
     private let engine: MacstifyEngine
-    /// Built once and kept: the host releases its reference once the sheet is
-    /// up, and a deallocated controller takes the sheet's window and targets
-    /// with it.
+    /// Held strongly: the host releases its reference once the sheet is up,
+    /// and a deallocated controller takes the sheet's targets with it.
     private var sheetController: ConfigureSheetController?
 
     override init?(frame: NSRect, isPreview: Bool) {
@@ -55,25 +54,18 @@ final class MacstifyView: ScreenSaverView {
         true
     }
 
-    /// Hosts read this more than once, and can replace the view between reading
-    /// it and presenting it. Building a controller per read would hand back a
-    /// window whose only owner was dropped by the very next read — and the sheet
-    /// then simply never appears. One controller, kept, re-reading the settings
-    /// each time it is handed over.
     override var configureSheet: NSWindow? {
-        let controller = sheetController ?? makeSheetController()
+        let controller = ConfigureSheetController { [weak self] saved in
+            guard let self else { return }
+            if saved {
+                engine.apply(Self.settings(isPreview: isPreview))
+            }
+            sheetController = nil
+        }
         sheetController = controller
-        controller.reload()
         return controller.window
     }
 
-    private func makeSheetController() -> ConfigureSheetController {
-        ConfigureSheetController { [weak self] saved in
-            guard let self, saved else { return }
-            engine.apply(Self.settings(isPreview: isPreview))
-        }
-    }
-
     private static func settings(isPreview: Bool) -> MacstifySettings {
         let settings = MacstifySettings.load()
         return isPreview ? settings.previewAdjusted : settings