diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 52ec758..2f45469 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+- **Help over the Config view:** after moving through the fields with the arrow keys, F9 left the
+  field in use focused behind the help: its cursor showed through the window, the help did not
+  scroll (the form took the keys), and closing it returned to the wrong field. Arrow-key moves in
+  forms now keep the application's focus in step.
+
 ## v0.2.0
 
 New:
diff --git a/internal/ui/app.go b/internal/ui/app.go
index a0de7da..dd9d9a4 100644
--- a/internal/ui/app.go
+++ b/internal/ui/app.go
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ func New(cfg *config.Config) *App {
 		return false
 	})
 	a.app.SetRoot(&toastRoot{Flex: layout, app: a}, true).EnableMouse(false)
+	syncFocus = func(p tview.Primitive) { a.app.SetFocus(p) }
 	a.app.SetInputCapture(a.handleKey)
 	a.switchTo(0)
 	a.renderServices()
diff --git a/internal/ui/form.go b/internal/ui/form.go
index 3f5c398..2822ccd 100644
--- a/internal/ui/form.go
+++ b/internal/ui/form.go
@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ import (
 // cancel is called on Esc, except when Esc only closes an open dropdown list
 // (tview would otherwise treat that as cancelling the whole form).
 func arrowNavigation(f *tview.Form, cancel func(), hooks *browseHooks) {
+	// Form.SetFocus moves the focus between its items without telling the
+	// application, which then still holds the item that was left. Opening a
+	// dialog would only blur that one: the item actually in use kept its
+	// cursor on screen and, because the form still had the focus, took the
+	// dialog's keys, and closing the dialog returned to the wrong item. So the
+	// application is told after every move.
+	move := func(index int) {
+		f.SetFocus(index)
+		if syncFocus != nil {
+			syncFocus(f) // the form hands the focus on to the item at index
+		}
+	}
 	var b browser
 	var closingList bool
 	f.SetCancelFunc(func() {
@@ -65,7 +77,7 @@ func arrowNavigation(f *tview.Form, cancel func(), hooks *browseHooks) {
 				}
 				return nil
 			}
-			f.SetFocus(next)
+			move(next)
 		case tcell.KeyTab, tcell.KeyBacktab:
 			dir := 1
 			if ev.Key() == tcell.KeyBacktab {
@@ -86,7 +98,7 @@ func arrowNavigation(f *tview.Form, cancel func(), hooks *browseHooks) {
 				cur, _ := dd.GetCurrentOption()
 				dd.SetCurrentOption((cur + step + n) % n)
 			case button >= 0:
-				f.SetFocus(min(max(pos+step, f.GetFormItemCount()), total-1))
+				move(min(max(pos+step, f.GetFormItemCount()), total-1))
 			default:
 				return ev
 			}
@@ -97,6 +109,9 @@ func arrowNavigation(f *tview.Form, cancel func(), hooks *browseHooks) {
 	})
 }
 
+// syncFocus gives a primitive the application's focus; New sets it.
+var syncFocus func(p tview.Primitive)
+
 func focusedDropDown(f *tview.Form, item int) (*tview.DropDown, bool) {
 	if item < 0 {
 		return nil, false
diff --git a/internal/ui/settings_test.go b/internal/ui/settings_test.go
index 923ff73..d4b1738 100644
--- a/internal/ui/settings_test.go
+++ b/internal/ui/settings_test.go
@@ -313,3 +313,30 @@ func TestTestConnectionsButtonSitsBelowTheServices(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestHelpOverConfigTakesTheFocus(t *testing.T) {
+	a := newTestApp(t)
+	a.handleKey(tcell.NewEventKey(tcell.KeyF6, 0, 0))
+	moveDown := a.settings.form.GetInputCapture()
+	moveDown(tcell.NewEventKey(tcell.KeyDown, 0, 0))
+	moveDown(tcell.NewEventKey(tcell.KeyDown, 0, 0))
+	field := a.settings.inputs["radarr.profile"]
+	if a.app.GetFocus() != field {
+		t.Fatalf("after ↓↓ the application's focus is %T, not the third field", a.app.GetFocus())
+	}
+
+	a.handleKey(tcell.NewEventKey(tcell.KeyF9, 0, 0))
+	// The field must not keep the focus behind the help: it would draw its
+	// cursor through the window, and the form would take the help's keys.
+	if field.HasFocus() || a.settings.form.HasFocus() {
+		t.Errorf("behind the help: field focused %v, form focused %v", field.HasFocus(), a.settings.form.HasFocus())
+	}
+	if _, ok := a.app.GetFocus().(*tview.TextView); !ok {
+		t.Errorf("help has no focus: %T", a.app.GetFocus())
+	}
+
+	a.closeModal()
+	if a.app.GetFocus() != field || !field.HasFocus() {
+		t.Errorf("closing the help returns to %T, not the field that was in use", a.app.GetFocus())
+	}
+}