diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 39eed1de4..607f37db0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ _The Space Missions layer replaying a Falcon 9 ascent — labeled `RECONSTRUCTED
 
 **Setup.** At [mapillary.com/dashboard/developers](https://www.mapillary.com/dashboard/developers), register an application with **Read** access and copy its **Client Token** (`MLY|…`). Paste it into **POWER UP → Mapillary**, or set `MAPILLARY_CLIENT_TOKEN` in `.env` and restart. Without it the panel reads **KEY REQUIRED**. **Google Street View** uses `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY` with the **Maps JavaScript API** enabled for it in Google Cloud; its chip starts off, since every panorama is billed to the key. **KartaView** and **Panoramax** need nothing: their public APIs are keyless.
 
-**Use.** Turn on **Street Level** under DATA LAYERS → Cameras, or with the pill in the STREET LEVEL panel header. Each provider has a chip in its own colour (Mapillary green), and one is lit at a time: lighting one switches the others off. Mapillary, which is free, is lit by default. Zoom in to street level (below 60 km) for the coverage lines; from orbit the panel says to zoom in. The **IMAGERY** (ALL / 360° / FLAT) and **SINCE** filters apply to Mapillary, KartaView and Panoramax; Street View panoramas are all 360°, so with Street View lit the filters are hidden. Click a coverage line for its image cones and a cone to open the photo. Light **KARTAVIEW** (purple) and zoom in below about 6 km: its lines are the streets KartaView has photos of, and a click on one opens the photo nearest the click, flat or 360° (drag to look around), with cones along its drive; **‹ ›** or ← → step through the drive (Shift+← →, ↑ ↓ and + − look around a 360° photo; pinch zooms on a phone). Photos KartaView has archived are skipped, and where all are archived the panel says so. For KartaView, **SINCE** goes by upload date, as KartaView's own map does (it can filter by nothing else), and the panel notes it under the slider; KartaView filters its lines on its own server, and a filtered area KartaView has not drawn before can take several seconds. Light **PANORAMAX** (orange) for the open, federated commons (strongest in France and Belgium): below about 60 km its lines are sequences. A click on a line opens that sequence's picture nearest the click without moving the camera, flat or 360°, with cones along the sequence around it; **‹ ›** or ← → step through it, and both filters apply. Its caption names the picture's authors (or the instance holding it) and licence (mostly CC BY-SA 4.0; pictures on the IGN instance are Licence Ouverte 2.0). On the **Google 3D** map (Google's terms keep Street View off other maps, where it does not appear), light **GOOGLE STREET VIEW** and click a street from below 3 km, or press **OPEN STREET VIEW** for the view centre, to open Google's panorama there; step along its arrows. Above the photo: **EXPAND** (full screen; Esc leaves) and **FIT / FILL** (Mapillary, and flat KartaView and Panoramax photos). The caption links to the image on the provider's site, and the globe credits each provider that is on ("© Mapillary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0", "Street View imagery © Google", "© KartaView contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0", "© Panoramax contributors, licence per picture"). KartaView's own photo pages fail for signed-out visitors, so its link opens the full-size photo.
+**Use.** Turn on **Street Level** under DATA LAYERS → Cameras, or with the pill in the STREET LEVEL panel header. Each provider has a chip in its own colour (Mapillary green), and one is lit at a time: lighting one switches the others off. Mapillary, which is free, is lit by default. Zoom in to street level (below 60 km) for the coverage lines; from orbit the panel says to zoom in. The **IMAGERY** (ALL / 360° / FLAT) and **SINCE** filters apply to Mapillary, KartaView and Panoramax; Street View panoramas are all 360°, so with Street View lit the filters are hidden. Click a coverage line for its image cones and a cone to open the photo. Light **KARTAVIEW** (purple) and zoom in below about 6 km: its lines are the streets KartaView has photos of, and a click on one opens the photo nearest the click, flat or 360° (drag to look around), with cones along its drive; **‹ ›** or ← → step through the drive (Shift+← →, ↑ ↓ and + − look around a 360° photo; pinch zooms on a phone). Photos KartaView has archived are skipped, and where all are archived the panel says so. For KartaView, **SINCE** goes by upload date, as KartaView's own map does (it can filter by nothing else), and the panel notes it under SINCE; KartaView filters its lines on its own server, and a filtered area KartaView has not drawn before can take several seconds. Light **PANORAMAX** (orange) for the open, federated commons (strongest in France and Belgium): below about 60 km its lines are sequences. A click on a line opens that sequence's picture nearest the click without moving the camera, flat or 360°, with cones along the sequence around it; **‹ ›** or ← → step through it, and both filters apply. Its caption names the picture's authors (or the instance holding it) and licence (mostly CC BY-SA 4.0; pictures on the IGN instance are Licence Ouverte 2.0). On the **Google 3D** map (Google's terms keep Street View off other maps, where it does not appear), light **GOOGLE STREET VIEW** and click a street from below 3 km, or press **OPEN STREET VIEW** for the view centre, to open Google's panorama there; step along its arrows. Above the photo: **EXPAND** (full screen; Esc leaves) and **FIT / FILL** (Mapillary, and flat KartaView and Panoramax photos). The caption links to the image on the provider's site, and the globe credits each provider that is on ("© Mapillary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0", "Street View imagery © Google", "© KartaView contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0", "© Panoramax contributors, licence per picture"). KartaView's own photo pages fail for signed-out visitors, so its link opens the full-size photo.
 
 Share links carry the provider switches and filters (`0.m.0` Mapillary off, `0.m.0_0.r.google-1` Street View on, `0.m.0_0.r.google-0*kartaview-1*panoramax-0` KartaView on and `0.m.0_0.r.google-0*kartaview-0*panoramax-1` Panoramax on, as the app writes them (`0.m.0_0.r.kartaview-1` and `0.m.0_0.r.panoramax-1` work too; a link that leaves out `m` keeps Mapillary, the default, lit), `0.p.p` panoramas only, `0.s.365` the last year). To add a provider, implement the contract in `src/layers/streetLevel/registry.js` and register it in `src/app/layers/streetLevel.js`.
 
diff --git a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
index 314c9b668..91907b58c 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
@@ -3484,7 +3484,12 @@ Mapillary token, Street View on Google 3D with a Google key), the layer
 reports it (`keyAlternatives`), and the panel's KEY REQUIRED, its coverage
 line and the layer row's tooltip say to light it. The
 viewer sits under the header with EXPAND, FIT/FILL and close above the
-image. SINCE is a stepped slider whose readout names the cut-off date.
+image; FIT/FILL starts at FIT each session. IMAGERY and FIT/FILL are rows of
+toggle buttons (`aria-pressed`), each its own tab stop. SINCE is a select of
+the nine windows; a link's day count between them gets its own option, and
+the tooltip names the cut-off date. The panel opens by itself only when a
+photo opens (a click on the map or a line would otherwise load it out of
+sight), never when the layer is switched on.
 
 MapillaryJS loads on the first photo. Opening one frames it with a single
 camera flight through the application's deferred navigation (`begin` /
@@ -3493,7 +3498,8 @@ if newer navigation took the camera while the photo loaded; closing the photo
 cancels it. EXPAND is the browser's Fullscreen API on the viewer element; on
 iPhone, which has no element fullscreen, the viewer opens as a top-layer
 popover instead (hidden where neither API exists). Clean View, recording and
-the cockpit take an expanded photo out of full screen. At phone width the
+the cockpit take an expanded photo out of full screen: the shell calls the
+panel's `shrinkViewer()` as it enters them. At phone width the
 viewer height comes from the rail band so the whole photo fits.
 
 Providers implement the contract in `src/layers/streetLevel/registry.js`. The
@@ -3586,7 +3592,7 @@ lookup asks the photo API for the projection (`SPHERE`/`PLANE`; it ignores
 photos are near but none passes, the panel says so), and the cones pass on
 each photo's projection and upload date. The provider declares
 `sinceBasis: 'upload'`, so while it is lit the panel shows "KartaView: by
-upload date" under the SINCE slider (`sinceNote` in the UI state). Tiles come uncompressed and
+upload date" under the SINCE select (`sinceNote` in the UI state). Tiles come uncompressed and
 uncacheable, so the last 24 decoded tiles are kept for 10 minutes while
 KartaView is lit (`createTileCache`, dropped when it is switched off); one
 that does not answer in 20 s is asked once more, and one that is not a line
diff --git a/src/cockpitMarkup.test.mjs b/src/cockpitMarkup.test.mjs
index 0b376d9fc..8b89c10aa 100644
--- a/src/cockpitMarkup.test.mjs
+++ b/src/cockpitMarkup.test.mjs
@@ -693,7 +693,10 @@ test('fresh Cockpit entry temporarily collapses map panels and exit restores the
   }
 
   assert.match(ui, /onEntered: \(\) => this\.enterPanels\(\)/);
-  assert.match(ui, /enterPanels: \(\) => this\._panelChrome\.enterCockpit\(\)/);
+  assert.match(
+    ui,
+    /enterPanels: \(\) => \{[^}]*this\._panelChrome\.enterCockpit\(\);\s*\}/,
+  );
   const callback = { 1: shellMethod('enterCockpit').toString() };
   assert.ok(callback, 'Cockpit onEntered callback is missing');
   assert.match(
diff --git a/src/streetLevelMarkup.test.mjs b/src/streetLevelMarkup.test.mjs
index 8d316c120..9a3f4ae23 100644
--- a/src/streetLevelMarkup.test.mjs
+++ b/src/streetLevelMarkup.test.mjs
@@ -70,24 +70,26 @@ test('the key gate holds every filter, with the error line outside it', () => {
   assert.match(html, /id="sl-error"[^>]*role="alert"/);
 });
 
-test('each radiogroup is one tab stop, on its checked button', () => {
-  for (const [group, checked] of [
+test('the segmented filters are toggle buttons, each its own tab stop', () => {
+  for (const [group, chosen] of [
     ['data-sl-render', 'letterbox'],
     ['data-sl-pano', 'all'],
   ]) {
-    const radios = [
+    const buttons = [
       ...html.matchAll(
         new RegExp(`<button [^>]*${group}="([a-z]+)"[^>]*>`, 'g'),
       ),
     ];
-    assert.ok(radios.length >= 2, group);
-    for (const [tag, value] of radios)
-      assert.equal(
-        /tabindex="-1"/.test(tag),
-        value !== checked,
-        `${group}="${value}" roving tab stop`,
-      );
+    assert.ok(buttons.length >= 2, group);
+    for (const [tag, value] of buttons) {
+      assert.match(tag, new RegExp(`aria-pressed="${value === chosen}"`));
+      assert.doesNotMatch(tag, /role="radio"|tabindex=/, `${group}="${value}"`);
+    }
   }
+  assert.doesNotMatch(
+    html,
+    /role="radiogroup"[^>]*(Image fit|Panorama filter)/,
+  );
 });
 
 test('the Cyber theme frames the Street Level panel like its rail peers (P3)', () => {
diff --git a/src/ui/applicationShell.js b/src/ui/applicationShell.js
index 99c3f67a2..783a1306c 100644
--- a/src/ui/applicationShell.js
+++ b/src/ui/applicationShell.js
@@ -403,7 +403,11 @@ export class StyleManager extends ShellFacade {
       readDataManager: () => this._dataManager,
       readContext: () => this.getContextModeState(),
       readActiveStyle: () => this.activeStyle,
-      enterPanels: () => this._panelChrome.enterCockpit(),
+      enterPanels: () => {
+        // The cockpit hides the panels: an expanded street-level photo too.
+        this._streetLevelControls?.shrinkViewer();
+        this._panelChrome.enterCockpit();
+      },
       exitPanels: () => this._panelChrome.exitCockpit(),
     });
 
@@ -1109,12 +1113,6 @@ export class StyleManager extends ShellFacade {
         setPanelCollapsed: (collapsed, options) =>
           this.setPanelCollapsed('street-level-panel', collapsed, options),
         showToast: (message) => this._showToast(message),
-        // Lets the panel open for a user, voice or tool switch-on, not a restore.
-        subscribeEnableRequests: (listener) =>
-          this._dataManager?.subscribeVisibilityRequests?.((change) => {
-            if (change?.layerId === 'street-level' && change.enabled)
-              listener(change.origin);
-          }) || null,
       },
     });
     this._streetLevelControls.connect();
@@ -1250,6 +1248,8 @@ export class StyleManager extends ShellFacade {
         ? forceEnabled
         : !document.body.classList.contains('ui-clean-view');
     document.body.classList.toggle('ui-clean-view', shouldEnable);
+    // Clean View hides the panels: an expanded street-level photo too.
+    if (shouldEnable) this._streetLevelControls?.shrinkViewer();
     if (this._cleanViewBtn) {
       this._cleanViewBtn.classList.toggle('active', shouldEnable);
     }
diff --git a/src/ui/shellFacade.js b/src/ui/shellFacade.js
index 2c1861b31..e964884bd 100644
--- a/src/ui/shellFacade.js
+++ b/src/ui/shellFacade.js
@@ -1182,6 +1182,9 @@ export class ShellFacade {
    * @returns {void}
    */
   setRecordingMode(enabled, options) {
+    // Recording hides the panels: an expanded street-level photo goes too.
+    if (enabled && options?.hidePanels !== false)
+      this._streetLevelControls?.shrinkViewer();
     return this._recording.setRecordingMode(enabled, options);
   }
 
diff --git a/src/ui/streetLevelControls.js b/src/ui/streetLevelControls.js
index 44bd18488..3a71ad2f3 100644
--- a/src/ui/streetLevelControls.js
+++ b/src/ui/streetLevelControls.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { isExplicitLayerStateOrigin } from '../data/layerState.js';
 import { syncChipGroup } from './chipGroup.js';
 import {
   presentStreetLevelPanel,
@@ -6,16 +5,6 @@ import {
 } from './streetLevelPresentation.js';
 import { t, translateKnown } from '../i18n/index.js';
 
-const RENDER_MODE_KEY = 'gev:street-level:render-mode';
-/** <body> classes of the modes that hide every panel; an expanded photo leaves with them. */
-const PANEL_HIDING_MODES = ['ui-clean-view', 'recording-mode', 'cockpit-mode'];
-const RADIO_STEPS = Object.freeze({
-  ArrowRight: 1,
-  ArrowDown: 1,
-  ArrowLeft: -1,
-  ArrowUp: -1,
-});
-
 // Renders run on every layer notification, and the rail's MutationObserver
 // relays out on each attribute write: write only what changed.
 const setProp = (node, key, value) => {
@@ -39,11 +28,9 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
     this._unsubscribe = null;
     this._state = null;
     this._view = null;
-    this._wasEnabled = null;
     this._wasOpen = false;
-    // Whether the last switch-on was explicit (user, voice, tool), not a restore.
-    this._explicitEnable = false;
-    this._unsubscribeEnableRequests = null;
+    /** The SINCE option for a day count between the stops, while one is set. */
+    this._customSince = null;
     this._resizeQueued = false;
     this._elements = this._collect();
     this._bind();
@@ -63,8 +50,7 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
       errorText: byId('sl-error-text'),
       panoRow: byId('sl-pano-row'),
       sinceRow: byId('sl-since-row'),
-      sinceRange: byId('sl-since'),
-      sinceLabel: byId('sl-since-label'),
+      since: byId('sl-since'),
       sinceNote: byId('sl-since-note'),
       viewerWrap: byId('sl-viewer-wrap'),
       viewerExpand: byId('sl-viewer-expand'),
@@ -111,18 +97,15 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
         this._setParams({ pano: button.dataset.slPano }),
       );
     }
-    this._bindRadioGroup(el.panoButtons);
-    this._bindRadioGroup(el.renderButtons);
-    // The readout follows the thumb; coverage is rebuilt once, on release.
-    const sinceDays = () =>
-      SINCE_STOPS[Number(el.sinceRange?.value) || 0]?.days ?? 0;
-    this.listen(el.sinceRange, 'input', () => {
-      const label = t(SINCE_STOPS[Number(el.sinceRange.value) || 0].label);
-      if (el.sinceLabel) el.sinceLabel.textContent = label;
-      el.sinceRange.setAttribute('aria-valuetext', label);
-    });
-    this.listen(el.sinceRange, 'change', () =>
-      this._setParams({ sinceDays: sinceDays() }),
+    // The stops, in the UI language (a language change reloads the page).
+    for (const stop of SINCE_STOPS) {
+      const option = document.createElement('option');
+      option.value = String(stop.days);
+      option.textContent = t(stop.label);
+      el.since?.appendChild(option);
+    }
+    this.listen(el.since, 'change', () =>
+      this._setParams({ sinceDays: Number(el.since.value) || 0 }),
     );
     this.listen(el.nearestBtn, 'click', () => {
       const nearest = this._view?.nearest;
@@ -160,24 +143,10 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
         this._exitExpanded();
       });
     } else setProp(el.viewerExpand, 'hidden', true);
-    for (const button of el.renderButtons) {
-      this.listen(button, 'click', () => {
-        const mode = button.dataset.slRender;
-        this.layer.setViewerRenderMode?.(mode);
-        try {
-          localStorage.setItem(RENDER_MODE_KEY, mode);
-        } catch {
-          /* storage unavailable */
-        }
-      });
-    }
-    try {
-      const stored = localStorage.getItem(RENDER_MODE_KEY);
-      if (stored === 'fill' || stored === 'letterbox')
-        this.layer.setViewerRenderMode?.(stored);
-    } catch {
-      /* storage unavailable */
-    }
+    for (const button of el.renderButtons)
+      this.listen(button, 'click', () =>
+        this.layer.setViewerRenderMode?.(button.dataset.slRender),
+      );
     // MapillaryJS only tracks window resizes; the panel resizes on its own.
     if (typeof ResizeObserver === 'function' && el.viewer) {
       this._resizeObserver = new ResizeObserver(() => this._requestResize());
@@ -185,24 +154,6 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
     }
   }
 
-  /** ARIA radio keys. Selecting clicks the radio, so keys and pointer share a path. */
-  _bindRadioGroup(buttons) {
-    buttons.forEach((button, index) => {
-      this.listen(button, 'keydown', (event) => {
-        let next = null;
-        if (event.key in RADIO_STEPS) {
-          const count = buttons.length;
-          next = buttons[(index + RADIO_STEPS[event.key] + count) % count];
-        } else if (event.key === 'Home') next = buttons[0];
-        else if (event.key === 'End') next = buttons[buttons.length - 1];
-        if (!next) return;
-        event.preventDefault();
-        next.focus();
-        if (next !== button) next.click();
-      });
-    });
-  }
-
   /**
    * Refit the viewer once per frame. Skips a hidden (0×0) viewer, which would
    * ask for tiles at z=NaN; the observer fires again once it has a size.
@@ -315,32 +266,18 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
     this._syncExpanded();
   }
 
-  /** Clean View, recording and the cockpit hide every panel, so they end EXPAND too. */
-  _watchPanelHidingModes(on) {
-    const body = document.body;
-    if (!on || !body) {
-      this._modesObserver?.disconnect();
-      this._modesObserver = null;
-      return;
-    }
-    const leaveIfHiding = () => {
-      if (PANEL_HIDING_MODES.some((mode) => body.classList.contains(mode)))
-        this._exitExpanded();
-    };
-    if (!this._modesObserver && typeof MutationObserver === 'function') {
-      this._modesObserver = new MutationObserver(leaveIfHiding);
-      this._modesObserver.observe(body, {
-        attributes: true,
-        attributeFilter: ['class'],
-      });
-    }
-    leaveIfHiding();
+  /**
+   * Shrink an expanded photo. Clean View, recording and the cockpit hide
+   * every panel and call it, so the photo does not stay full screen (or, on
+   * iPhone, as a popover) over them.
+   */
+  shrinkViewer() {
+    this._exitExpanded();
   }
 
-  /** Mirror the expanded state on EXPAND, watch the panel-hiding modes, refit. */
+  /** Mirror the expanded state on EXPAND and refit. */
   _syncExpanded() {
     const on = this.isViewerExpanded();
-    this._watchPanelHidingModes(on);
     const button = this._elements.viewerExpand;
     if (button) {
       setProp(
@@ -363,12 +300,6 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
     this._unsubscribe?.();
     this._unsubscribe = null;
     if (this.destroyed || !this.root) return;
-    this._unsubscribeEnableRequests?.();
-    this._unsubscribeEnableRequests = this.actions.subscribeEnableRequests(
-      (origin) => {
-        this._explicitEnable = isExplicitLayerStateOrigin(origin);
-      },
-    );
     this._unsubscribe = this.layer.subscribe?.((state) => this.render(state));
     if (this.layer.getUIState) this.render(this.layer.getUIState());
   }
@@ -416,12 +347,12 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
     setProp(el.errorText, 'textContent', view.error || '');
   }
 
-  _renderRadios(buttons, isChecked) {
+  /** A segmented control: the chosen button is pressed. */
+  _renderPressed(buttons, isChosen) {
     for (const button of buttons) {
-      const checked = isChecked(button);
-      button.classList.toggle('is-active', checked);
-      setAttr(button, 'aria-checked', String(checked));
-      setAttr(button, 'tabindex', checked ? '0' : '-1');
+      const chosen = isChosen(button);
+      button.classList.toggle('is-active', chosen);
+      setAttr(button, 'aria-pressed', String(chosen));
     }
   }
 
@@ -434,23 +365,25 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
     setProp(el.sinceNote, 'textContent', view.sinceNote || '');
     setProp(el.sinceNote, 'hidden', !view.sinceNote);
     setProp(el.controls, 'hidden', !shows.pano && !shows.since);
-    this._renderRadios(
+    this._renderPressed(
       el.panoButtons,
       (button) => button.dataset.slPano === view.filter.pano,
     );
-    if (el.sinceRange) {
-      // Never move the thumb under the user's hand; once the committed value
-      // matches the thumb, show the full readout with its cut-off date.
-      const index = String(view.since.index);
-      if (
-        document.activeElement !== el.sinceRange &&
-        el.sinceRange.value !== index
-      )
-        el.sinceRange.value = index;
-      if (el.sinceRange.value === index) {
-        setProp(el.sinceLabel, 'textContent', view.since.label);
-        setAttr(el.sinceRange, 'aria-valuetext', view.since.label);
+    if (el.since) {
+      // A link may carry a day count between the stops: it gets an option.
+      if (!view.since.exact) {
+        this._customSince ||= el.since.appendChild(
+          document.createElement('option'),
+        );
+        setProp(this._customSince, 'value', String(view.since.days));
+        setProp(this._customSince, 'textContent', view.since.window);
+      } else if (this._customSince) {
+        this._customSince.remove();
+        this._customSince = null;
       }
+      setProp(el.since, 'value', String(view.since.days));
+      // The cut-off date, for the pointer and for screen readers.
+      setProp(el.since, 'title', view.since.label);
     }
   }
 
@@ -467,7 +400,7 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
       setProp(wrap, 'hidden', !viewer.open);
     }
     setProp(el.viewerPlaceholder, 'hidden', !viewer.loading);
-    this._renderRadios(
+    this._renderPressed(
       el.renderButtons,
       (button) => button.dataset.slRender === viewer.renderMode,
     );
@@ -497,17 +430,11 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Open the panel on a switch-on or when an image opens. Never persisted:
-   * the stored collapse state stays the user's own choice.
+   * Open the panel when an image opens (a click on the map or a line would
+   * otherwise load it out of sight). Never persisted: the stored collapse
+   * state stays the user's own choice.
    */
   _reactToTransitions(view) {
-    const enabled = view.enabled;
-    if (enabled && this._wasEnabled === false) {
-      // A restore must not reopen a panel the user or a share link kept collapsed.
-      if (this._explicitEnable) this.setCollapsed(false, { persist: false });
-      this._explicitEnable = false;
-    }
-    this._wasEnabled = enabled;
     // Other size changes reach the viewer through the ResizeObserver; opening
     // asks for one resize because the element may not have a size yet.
     const open = view.viewer.open;
@@ -523,14 +450,11 @@ export class StreetLevelControls {
     // would hide the viewer even inside the panel.
     if (this._expandMode === 'popover')
       this._elements.viewerWrap?.removeAttribute('popover');
-    this._watchPanelHidingModes(false);
     this.listeners.abort();
     this._resizeObserver?.disconnect();
     this._resizeObserver = null;
     this._unsubscribe?.();
     this._unsubscribe = null;
-    this._unsubscribeEnableRequests?.();
-    this._unsubscribeEnableRequests = null;
     this.layer.attachViewerHost?.(null);
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/ui/streetLevelControls.test.mjs b/src/ui/streetLevelControls.test.mjs
index 1614fb0aa..8cdf1796c 100644
--- a/src/ui/streetLevelControls.test.mjs
+++ b/src/ui/streetLevelControls.test.mjs
@@ -247,8 +247,7 @@ function panelDom({ fullscreen = true, popover = false } = {}) {
   for (const pano of ['all', 'pano', 'flat'])
     add(panoRow, 'button', { dataset: { slPano: pano } });
   const sinceRow = add(controls, 'div', { id: 'sl-since-row' });
-  add(sinceRow, 'input', { id: 'sl-since' });
-  add(sinceRow, 'output', { id: 'sl-since-label' });
+  add(sinceRow, 'select', { id: 'sl-since' });
   add(sinceRow, 'small', { id: 'sl-since-note' });
   const metaRow = add(root, 'div', { classes: ['sl-meta-row'] });
   add(metaRow, 'div', { id: 'sl-coverage-meta' });
@@ -336,7 +335,6 @@ async function productionPanel(dom) {
         manager.setLayerParams('street-level', params, options),
       setPanelCollapsed() {},
       showToast() {},
-      subscribeEnableRequests: () => () => {},
     },
   });
   controls.connect();
@@ -372,11 +370,11 @@ test('a 360° click reaches the share link through the data manager', () =>
     coordinator.destroy();
   }));
 
-test('releasing the SINCE slider records the window in the share link', () =>
+test('choosing a SINCE window records it in the share link', () =>
   withDom(async (dom) => {
     const { coordinator, controls, share } = await productionPanel(dom);
     const since = dom.root.querySelector('#sl-since');
-    since.value = '5'; // the "last year" stop
+    since.value = '365'; // the "last year" stop
     since.dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));
     await settle();
     const days =
@@ -416,6 +414,7 @@ function uiState({
   on = true,
   open = false,
   pano = 'all',
+  sinceDays = 0,
   renderMode = 'letterbox',
   keyRequired = false,
 } = {}) {
@@ -424,7 +423,7 @@ function uiState({
     providers: [providerSnapshot({ on, keyRequired })],
     keyRequired,
     keyRejected: false,
-    filter: { pano, sinceDays: 0 },
+    filter: { pano, sinceDays },
     coverage: { count: 3, loading: false, hint: '', error: null },
     sequence: { selectedId: null, images: 0, loading: false },
     street: {
@@ -441,8 +440,6 @@ function stubPanel(dom, state, extraActions = {}) {
   const layer = stubLayer();
   const calls = { setParams: [], setEnabled: [], collapsed: [], toasts: [] };
   let enabled = state.enabled;
-  /** Reports a switch-on request's origin, as the data manager does. */
-  let announce = null;
   layer.publish(state);
   const controls = new StreetLevelControls({
     root: dom.root,
@@ -457,12 +454,6 @@ function stubPanel(dom, state, extraActions = {}) {
       setPanelCollapsed: (collapsed, options) =>
         calls.collapsed.push([collapsed, options]),
       showToast: (message) => calls.toasts.push(message),
-      subscribeEnableRequests: (listener) => {
-        announce = listener;
-        return () => {
-          announce = null;
-        };
-      },
       ...extraActions,
     },
   });
@@ -471,8 +462,6 @@ function stubPanel(dom, state, extraActions = {}) {
     layer,
     calls,
     controls,
-    announce: (origin) => announce?.(origin),
-    subscribed: () => announce !== null,
     chip: () => dom.root.querySelector('#sl-provider-chips').children[0],
   };
 }
@@ -737,50 +726,57 @@ function fakeMutationObserver() {
   };
 }
 
-for (const mode of ['ui-clean-view', 'recording-mode', 'cockpit-mode'])
-  test(`entering ${mode} takes the photo out of full screen`, () =>
-    withDom(async (dom) => {
-      const saved = globalThis.MutationObserver;
-      const watch = fakeMutationObserver();
-      globalThis.MutationObserver = watch.FakeObserver;
-      try {
-        const { controls } = stubPanel(dom, uiState({ open: true }));
-        dom.root.querySelector('#sl-viewer-expand').click();
-        await settle();
-        await settle();
-        assert.equal(dom.document.fullscreenElement, dom.wrap);
-        assert.equal(watch.observers.size, 1, 'watching while expanded');
-        dom.document.body.classList.toggle(mode, true);
-        watch.fire();
-        await settle();
-        await settle();
-        assert.equal(dom.document.fullscreenElement, null);
-        assert.equal(watch.observers.size, 0, 'and not after');
-        controls.destroy();
-      } finally {
-        globalThis.MutationObserver = saved;
-      }
-    }));
+test('shrinkViewer takes the photo out of full screen (Clean View, recording, the cockpit)', () =>
+  withDom(async (dom) => {
+    const { controls } = stubPanel(dom, uiState({ open: true }));
+    dom.root.querySelector('#sl-viewer-expand').click();
+    await settle();
+    await settle();
+    assert.equal(dom.document.fullscreenElement, dom.wrap);
+    controls.shrinkViewer();
+    await settle();
+    await settle();
+    assert.equal(dom.document.fullscreenElement, null);
+    controls.shrinkViewer(); // nothing expanded: nothing to do
+    controls.destroy();
+  }));
+
+test('the shell shrinks the photo when Clean View, recording or the cockpit hide the panels', () => {
+  const shell = fs.readFileSync(
+    new URL('./applicationShell.js', import.meta.url),
+    'utf8',
+  );
+  const facade = fs.readFileSync(
+    new URL('./shellFacade.js', import.meta.url),
+    'utf8',
+  );
+  assert.match(
+    shell,
+    /toggleCleanView[\s\S]*?if \(shouldEnable\) this\._streetLevelControls\?\.shrinkViewer\(\)/,
+  );
+  assert.match(
+    shell,
+    /enterPanels: \(\) => \{[\s\S]*?this\._streetLevelControls\?\.shrinkViewer\(\);/,
+  );
+  assert.match(
+    facade,
+    /setRecordingMode\(enabled, options\) \{[\s\S]*?this\._streetLevelControls\?\.shrinkViewer\(\);/,
+  );
+});
 
 /* ── Restores and keyboard rules ───────────────────────────────────────── */
 
-test('only an explicit switch-on opens the panel, unstored; a restore never does (P2-1)', () =>
+test('a photo opening opens the panel, unstored; switching the layer on does not', () =>
   withDom(async (dom) => {
-    const { layer, calls, controls, announce, subscribed } = stubPanel(
+    const { layer, calls, controls } = stubPanel(
       dom,
       uiState({ enabled: false }),
     );
-    announce('restore');
     layer.publish(uiState({ enabled: true }));
-    assert.deepEqual(calls.collapsed, [], 'a restore leaves the panel be');
-    layer.publish(uiState({ enabled: false }));
-    announce('user');
-    layer.publish(uiState({ enabled: true }));
-    assert.deepEqual(calls.collapsed, [[false, { persist: false }]]);
+    assert.deepEqual(calls.collapsed, [], 'a switch-on leaves the panel be');
     layer.publish(uiState({ enabled: true, open: true }));
-    assert.equal(calls.collapsed.length, 2, 'a photo opening opens it too');
+    assert.deepEqual(calls.collapsed, [[false, { persist: false }]]);
     controls.destroy();
-    assert.equal(subscribed(), false, 'destroy unsubscribes');
   }));
 
 test('FIT / FILL show the selected render mode (P3)', () =>
@@ -788,8 +784,8 @@ test('FIT / FILL show the selected render mode (P3)', () =>
     const { layer, controls } = stubPanel(dom, uiState({ open: true }));
     layer.publish(uiState({ open: true, renderMode: 'fill' }));
     const [fit, fill] = dom.wrap.querySelectorAll('[data-sl-render]');
-    assert.equal(fill.getAttribute('aria-checked'), 'true');
-    assert.equal(fit.getAttribute('aria-checked'), 'false');
+    assert.equal(fill.getAttribute('aria-pressed'), 'true');
+    assert.equal(fit.getAttribute('aria-pressed'), 'false');
     assert.equal(fill.classList.contains('is-active'), true);
     controls.destroy();
   }));
@@ -834,35 +830,46 @@ test('identical renders write nothing to the DOM (P3: rail MutationObserver)', (
     controls.destroy();
   }));
 
-test('arrow keys move the selection within a radiogroup, which has one tab stop (P3)', () =>
+test('the imagery filter is a row of toggle buttons, the chosen one pressed', () =>
   withDom(async (dom) => {
     const { layer, calls, controls } = stubPanel(dom, uiState());
-    const keydown = (target, key) =>
-      target.dispatchEvent({ type: 'keydown', bubbles: true, key });
     const [all, pano, flat] = dom.root.querySelectorAll('[data-sl-pano]');
-    assert.deepEqual(
-      [all, pano, flat].map((button) => button.getAttribute('tabindex')),
-      ['0', '-1', '-1'],
-    );
-    all.focus();
-    keydown(all, 'ArrowRight');
-    assert.equal(dom.document.activeElement, pano);
+    const pressed = () =>
+      [all, pano, flat].map((button) => button.getAttribute('aria-pressed'));
+    assert.deepEqual(pressed(), ['true', 'false', 'false']);
+    pano.click();
     assert.deepEqual(calls.setParams.at(-1), [
       { pano: 'pano' },
       { origin: 'user' },
     ]);
-    keydown(all, 'ArrowLeft'); // wraps to the end
-    assert.equal(dom.document.activeElement, flat);
-    keydown(flat, 'Home');
-    assert.equal(dom.document.activeElement, all);
     layer.publish(uiState({ pano: 'flat' }));
+    assert.deepEqual(pressed(), ['false', 'false', 'true']);
+    // No roving tab stop: every button is reachable with Tab.
     assert.deepEqual(
       [all, pano, flat].map((button) => button.getAttribute('tabindex')),
-      ['-1', '-1', '0'],
+      [null, null, null],
     );
     controls.destroy();
   }));
 
+test('SINCE lists the stops, adds a link’s own day count and names the cut-off date', () =>
+  withDom(async (dom) => {
+    const { layer, controls } = stubPanel(dom, uiState());
+    const since = dom.root.querySelector('#sl-since');
+    assert.equal(since.children.length, 9, 'the nine stops');
+    assert.equal(since.children[0].textContent, 'ANY DATE');
+    layer.publish(uiState({ sinceDays: 365 }));
+    assert.equal(since.value, '365');
+    assert.match(since.title, /^LAST YEAR · SINCE \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/);
+    layer.publish(uiState({ sinceDays: 400 }));
+    assert.equal(since.children.length, 10);
+    assert.equal(since.children[9].textContent, 'LAST 400 DAYS');
+    assert.equal(since.value, '400');
+    layer.publish(uiState({ sinceDays: 30 }));
+    assert.equal(since.children.length, 9, 'gone once a stop is chosen');
+    controls.destroy();
+  }));
+
 test('under KEY REQUIRED the provider chip stays live and explains the key instead of toggling (P3)', () =>
   withDom(async (dom) => {
     const { calls, chip, controls } = stubPanel(
@@ -984,7 +991,10 @@ test('a note under SINCE says what date it compares, only while one is given', (
       'utf8',
     );
     assert.match(template, /<small id="sl-since-note"[^>]* hidden>/);
-    assert.match(template, /aria-describedby="sl-since-label sl-since-note"/);
+    assert.match(
+      template,
+      /<select id="sl-since"[^>]*aria-describedby="sl-since-note"/,
+    );
   }));
 
 test('Street View lit hides the imagery filters; Mapillary lit shows them', () =>
diff --git a/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.js b/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.js
index 7df0e298e..34289a93c 100644
--- a/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.js
+++ b/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.js
@@ -35,7 +35,14 @@ export function sinceStopIndex(days) {
 function presentSince(days, now) {
   const value = Number(days) || 0;
   const index = sinceStopIndex(value);
-  if (value <= 0) return { index, days: 0, label: t('ANY DATE') };
+  if (value <= 0)
+    return {
+      index,
+      days: 0,
+      exact: true,
+      window: t('ANY DATE'),
+      label: t('ANY DATE'),
+    };
   const stop = SINCE_STOPS[index];
   const window =
     stop.days === value
@@ -44,6 +51,9 @@ function presentSince(days, now) {
   return {
     index,
     days: value,
+    /** One of SINCE_STOPS; a link may carry any other day count. */
+    exact: stop.days === value,
+    window,
     label: t('{window} · SINCE {date}', {
       window,
       date: formatDate(now - value * DAY_MS),
diff --git a/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.test.mjs b/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.test.mjs
index b81e203cb..6837e303c 100644
--- a/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.test.mjs
+++ b/src/ui/streetLevelPresentation.test.mjs
@@ -182,7 +182,13 @@ test('a SINCE window from a link lands on the nearest slider stop', () => {
 test('the SINCE readout names the window and the cut-off date it means today', () => {
   const now = Date.UTC(2026, 8, 25);
   const any = presentStreetLevelPanel(snapshot(), { now });
-  assert.deepEqual(any.since, { index: 0, days: 0, label: 'ANY DATE' });
+  assert.deepEqual(any.since, {
+    index: 0,
+    days: 0,
+    exact: true,
+    window: 'ANY DATE',
+    label: 'ANY DATE',
+  });
   const year = presentStreetLevelPanel(
     snapshot({ filter: { pano: 'pano', sinceDays: 365 } }),
     { now },
@@ -191,6 +197,8 @@ test('the SINCE readout names the window and the cut-off date it means today', (
   assert.deepEqual(year.since, {
     index: 5,
     days: 365,
+    exact: true,
+    window: 'LAST YEAR',
     label: 'LAST YEAR · SINCE 2025-09-25',
   });
   const custom = presentStreetLevelPanel(
@@ -198,6 +206,8 @@ test('the SINCE readout names the window and the cut-off date it means today', (
     { now },
   );
   assert.equal(custom.since.index, 5);
+  assert.equal(custom.since.exact, false);
+  assert.equal(custom.since.window, 'LAST 400 DAYS');
   assert.equal(custom.since.label, 'LAST 400 DAYS · SINCE 2025-08-21');
 });
 
diff --git a/src/ui/styles/street-level.css b/src/ui/styles/street-level.css
index c218765d9..502f97d11 100644
--- a/src/ui/styles/street-level.css
+++ b/src/ui/styles/street-level.css
@@ -278,17 +278,23 @@ html:not([lang='en']) .sl-meta-row .sl-nearest-btn {
   gap: 4px 10px;
 }
 
-.sl-range {
+.sl-select {
   width: 100%;
   min-width: 0;
-  margin: 0;
-  accent-color: var(--sl-green);
+  background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06);
+  border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.14);
+  border-radius: 7px;
+  color: var(--text-primary);
+  padding: 4px 6px;
+  font-family: var(--font-mono);
+  font-size: var(--sl-text);
+  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
   cursor: pointer;
 }
 
-.sl-range:focus-visible {
+.sl-select:focus-visible {
   outline: 1px solid var(--accent);
-  outline-offset: 3px;
+  outline-offset: 2px;
 }
 
 .sl-since-note {
@@ -302,14 +308,6 @@ html:not([lang='en']) .sl-meta-row .sl-nearest-btn {
   display: none;
 }
 
-.sl-since-label {
-  grid-column: 2;
-  font-family: var(--font-mono);
-  font-size: var(--sl-text);
-  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
-  color: var(--text-primary);
-}
-
 /* ── Embedded viewer ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 .sl-viewer-wrap {
   position: relative;
diff --git a/src/ui/templates/layer-panels.html b/src/ui/templates/layer-panels.html
index b170b01e3..de09f2b0f 100644
--- a/src/ui/templates/layer-panels.html
+++ b/src/ui/templates/layer-panels.html
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@
           <div class="sl-viewer-bar">
             <div class="sl-viewer-tools">
               <button id="sl-viewer-expand" class="scene-btn" type="button" aria-pressed="false" title="Show the street-level view full screen (Esc shrinks it)" data-i18n-title><span class="sl-btn-icon" aria-hidden="true">⤢</span><span class="sl-btn-text" data-i18n>EXPAND</span></button>
-              <div class="sl-seg" role="radiogroup" aria-label="Image fit" data-i18n-aria-label>
-                <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn is-active" data-sl-render="letterbox" role="radio" aria-checked="true" title="Fit: show the whole photo, with dark bars where its shape differs from the frame" data-i18n-title data-i18n>FIT</button>
-                <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn" data-sl-render="fill" role="radio" aria-checked="false" tabindex="-1" title="Fill: fill the frame edge to edge, cropping the photo" data-i18n-title data-i18n>FILL</button>
+              <div class="sl-seg" role="group" aria-label="Image fit" data-i18n-aria-label>
+                <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn is-active" data-sl-render="letterbox" aria-pressed="true" title="Fit: show the whole photo, with dark bars where its shape differs from the frame" data-i18n-title data-i18n>FIT</button>
+                <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn" data-sl-render="fill" aria-pressed="false" title="Fill: fill the frame edge to edge, cropping the photo" data-i18n-title data-i18n>FILL</button>
               </div>
             </div>
             <div class="sl-viewer-tools sl-viewer-tools-right">
@@ -118,16 +118,15 @@
         <fieldset id="sl-controls" class="sl-controls">
           <div id="sl-pano-row" class="sl-filters" role="group" aria-label="Imagery filters" data-i18n-aria-label>
             <span class="cctv-summary-label" data-i18n>IMAGERY</span>
-            <div class="sl-seg" role="radiogroup" aria-label="Panorama filter" data-i18n-aria-label>
-              <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn is-active" data-sl-pano="all" role="radio" aria-checked="true" data-i18n>ALL</button>
-              <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn" data-sl-pano="pano" role="radio" aria-checked="false" tabindex="-1">360°</button>
-              <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn" data-sl-pano="flat" role="radio" aria-checked="false" tabindex="-1" data-i18n>FLAT</button>
+            <div class="sl-seg" role="group" aria-label="Panorama filter" data-i18n-aria-label>
+              <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn is-active" data-sl-pano="all" aria-pressed="true" data-i18n>ALL</button>
+              <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn" data-sl-pano="pano" aria-pressed="false">360°</button>
+              <button type="button" class="sl-seg-btn" data-sl-pano="flat" aria-pressed="false" data-i18n>FLAT</button>
             </div>
           </div>
           <div id="sl-since-row" class="sl-since">
             <label class="cctv-summary-label" for="sl-since" data-i18n>SINCE</label>
-            <input id="sl-since" class="sl-range" type="range" min="0" max="8" step="1" value="0" aria-valuetext="ANY DATE" aria-describedby="sl-since-label sl-since-note" />
-            <output id="sl-since-label" class="sl-since-label" for="sl-since" data-i18n>ANY DATE</output>
+            <select id="sl-since" class="sl-select" aria-describedby="sl-since-note"></select>
             <small id="sl-since-note" class="sl-since-note" hidden></small>
           </div>
         </fieldset>