diff --git a/ios/App/AppUITests/MoveDirectoryUITests.swift b/ios/App/AppUITests/MoveDirectoryUITests.swift
index afe9dd1..0154e66 100644
--- a/ios/App/AppUITests/MoveDirectoryUITests.swift
+++ b/ios/App/AppUITests/MoveDirectoryUITests.swift
@@ -35,21 +35,22 @@ final class MoveDirectoryUITests: XCTestCase {
         try createFolder(named: source, in: app)
         try createFolder(named: destination, in: app)
 
-        // 1. Long-press the source row: the sheet has Move to…, and the core's
-        //    prompt takes an inbox-relative destination path.
+        // 1. Long-press the source row: the sheet has Move to…, and since core
+        //    2.55.0 (zennotes#844) the core's prompt spells destinations the
+        //    way the sidebar does: a folder of the notes area by its own path,
+        //    with no inbox/ in front, so the same text works on an Inbox vault
+        //    and on one whose notes live at the vault root.
         let sourceRow = try row(labelPrefix: source, in: app)
         sourceRow.press(forDuration: 0.8)
         let move = try button(label: "Move to…", in: app, failure: "the folder sheet has no Move to… row")
         attachScreenshot("folder sheet", of: app)
         move.tap()
 
-        let target = promptField(placeholder: "inbox/Work", in: app)
-        // Touch prompts with suggestions are tap-first (no autofocus), so the
-        // field needs a tap before typing; the typed path filters the list and
-        // Move submits the typed value.
+        let target = promptField(placeholderSuffix: "(type a folder to change)", in: app)
+        // The typed path filters the list and Move submits the typed value.
         waitUntilHittable(target, failure: "the Move prompt did not open")
-        target.tap()
-        app.typeText("inbox/\(destination)")
+        focusPromptField(target)
+        app.typeText(destination)
         attachScreenshot("move prompt", of: app)
         try button(label: "Move", in: app, failure: "the Move prompt has no Move button").tap()
 
@@ -82,14 +83,12 @@ final class MoveDirectoryUITests: XCTestCase {
         try hittable(label: "Browse", in: app, failure: "the ensō menu did not open").tap()
     }
 
-    /// "New folder" at the drawer's current directory. A tap on the field is
-    /// harmless when the prompt already focused it, and needed on a simulator
-    /// whose hardware keyboard kept the software one down.
+    /// "New folder" at the drawer's current directory.
     private func createFolder(named name: String, in app: XCUIApplication) throws {
         try row(labelPrefix: "New folder", in: app, failure: "no New folder row in Browse").tap()
         let field = promptField(placeholder: "Folder name", in: app)
         waitUntilHittable(field, failure: "the New folder prompt did not open")
-        field.tap()
+        focusPromptField(field)
         app.typeText(name)
         try button(label: "Create", in: app, failure: "the New folder prompt has no Create button").tap()
         _ = try row(labelPrefix: name, in: app, failure: "created folder \(name) did not appear in Browse")
@@ -103,6 +102,38 @@ final class MoveDirectoryUITests: XCTestCase {
             .firstMatch
     }
 
+    /// The Move prompt's placeholder opens with the notes root's name (the
+    /// Inbox folder's, or "Vault root"), which depends on the vault, so only
+    /// its fixed ending identifies the field.
+    private func promptField(placeholderSuffix suffix: String, in app: XCUIApplication) -> XCUIElement {
+        app.textFields
+            .matching(NSPredicate(format: "placeholderValue ENDSWITH %@", suffix))
+            .firstMatch
+    }
+
+    /// A prompt's field may arrive focused or not. PromptModal keeps touch
+    /// pickers tap-first, but with core 2.52.0 to 2.60.0 the dialog shell
+    /// (useDialogFocus) focused a panel's first control on open, so the Move
+    /// prompt raised the keyboard itself and its sheet rose with it. A
+    /// tap aimed at the field's frame from before that rise blurred the field
+    /// again, and typing then had no target. So the field gets time to take
+    /// focus on its own, and a tap only when it did not (a tap-first prompt,
+    /// or a hardware keyboard keeping the software one down).
+    private func focusPromptField(_ field: XCUIElement, timeout: TimeInterval = 2) {
+        if waitForKeyboardFocus(field, timeout: timeout) { return }
+        field.tap()
+        XCTAssertTrue(waitForKeyboardFocus(field, timeout: 5), "the prompt field did not take keyboard focus")
+    }
+
+    private func waitForKeyboardFocus(_ element: XCUIElement, timeout: TimeInterval) -> Bool {
+        let deadline = Date().addingTimeInterval(timeout)
+        repeat {
+            if (element.value(forKey: "hasKeyboardFocus") as? Bool) == true { return true }
+            RunLoop.current.run(until: Date().addingTimeInterval(0.2))
+        } while Date() < deadline
+        return false
+    }
+
     /// Menus, sheets and dialogs animate in, and an element reports its final
     /// frame before it can take a tap there.
     private func waitUntilHittable(_ element: XCUIElement, timeout: TimeInterval = 10, failure: String) {