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@@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ three focused cases passed together. No claim of one fully green expanded six-UI
 run is made. These are client-only simulator claims, not live/deployment/hardware
 qualification.
 
+## Physical iPhone deployment — 2026-10-01
+
+At the user's request, compiled the current Hermes account app with Xcode 26.4
+using automatic development signing (`Voice_iOS`, Debug, generic iOS destination).
+Build succeeded; artifact `/tmp/hope-voice-phone-build/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Voice.app`,
+build log `/tmp/hope-voice-phone-build.log`. Installed bundle `dev.shane.voice`
+on the connected, paired iPhone 14 Pro Max (iOS 26.7.1, Developer Mode enabled).
+Installation reported success. The first automatic launch was denied because the
+iPhone was locked (`FBSOpenApplicationErrorDomain: Locked`). After the user unlocked
+it, `devicectl device process launch` succeeded and launched `dev.shane.voice`.
+No credentials/preferences were reset, no backend changes, and no physical speech
+or authenticated WSS qualification is implied by successful installation.
+
 ## Current direction
 
 Keep **Qwen 2.5**. The user explicitly canceled the earlier request to switch to