diff --git a/packages/mobile/src/components/download-track-archive-drawer/DownloadTrackArchiveDrawer.tsx b/packages/mobile/src/components/download-track-archive-drawer/DownloadTrackArchiveDrawer.tsx
index 70c8eba9332..269caeded20 100644
--- a/packages/mobile/src/components/download-track-archive-drawer/DownloadTrackArchiveDrawer.tsx
+++ b/packages/mobile/src/components/download-track-archive-drawer/DownloadTrackArchiveDrawer.tsx
@@ -124,13 +124,27 @@ const DownloadTrackArchiveDrawerContent = ({
 
   const { mutate: cancelStemsArchiveJob } = useCancelStemsArchiveJob()
 
-  const { data: jobState } = useGetStemsArchiveJobStatus({
+  const {
+    data: jobState,
+    isError: isJobStatusError,
+    isTimedOut: isJobTimedOut
+  } = useGetStemsArchiveJobStatus({
     jobId
   })
 
+  // `isTimedOut` and `isError` have to be part of this, not just `failed`.
+  // A job that never leaves `waiting` — the archiver worker losing its Redis
+  // lock and holding every concurrency slot, for instance — is reported as a
+  // perfectly valid non-terminal state forever, so keying only off `failed`
+  // leaves the drawer spinning with no error and no retry until the user
+  // gives up. The shared hook already enforces STEMS_ARCHIVE_POLL_TIMEOUT_MS
+  // and hands back `isTimedOut`; web consumes it and mobile did not.
   const hasError =
     !isStartingDownload &&
-    (downloadError || initiateDownloadFailed || jobState?.state === 'failed')
+    (downloadError ||
+      initiateDownloadFailed ||
+      jobState?.state === 'failed' ||
+      (!!jobId && (isJobStatusError || isJobTimedOut)))
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (hasError) {