diff --git a/docs/specs/extensions/XR_DXR_weave.md b/docs/specs/extensions/XR_DXR_weave.md
index 50b29007c6..2396942463 100644
--- a/docs/specs/extensions/XR_DXR_weave.md
+++ b/docs/specs/extensions/XR_DXR_weave.md
@@ -756,6 +756,16 @@ desktop-Linux runtime it keeps a mismatched overlay off the wire itself.
 With v14, a frame whose overlay was ignored also resets "unchanged": the first overlay the display
 processor is offered after one is passed as changed, whatever the caller declared, since the
 display processor's cached layer predates the ignored frames.
+**Android: the overlay is per submit, and an unreadable one refuses (v18).** The Android engine
+caches an overlay import by buffer identity (the caller re-sends the same `AHardwareBuffer` every
+frame), and before v18 that cache was also a *standing* overlay: once imported, it was
+composited on every later submit, including one that chained no overlay. From v17 an overlay is
+composited only on a submit that chains one (the cache is kept, so re-sending the same buffer
+costs no re-import), and a chained overlay that cannot be imported refuses the submit with
+`XR_ERROR_RUNTIME_FAILURE` before the woven output is touched — the v16 rule above. A caller
+whose overlay is its whole 2D (browser-pvt#226 on Android) switches the overlay off while its page
+scrolls, so on a pre-v18 Android runtime it would see its last page composited over a page that
+had moved; such a caller gates on `extensionVersion >= 18`.
 
 **The import cache.** An fd is not an identity: every hand-off is a new number. The service
 keys its input import cache on `bufferId` when non-zero and on the fd's `(st_dev, st_ino)`
@@ -964,6 +974,9 @@ any unknown chained struct. One `weave(v13)` WARN in the service log per edge.
 **v17 is a gate for the same caller as v16**: one whose overlay IS its 2D must not rely on a
 mismatched overlay being dropped by an older desktop-Linux runtime, which composites it stretched;
 it keeps such an overlay off the wire there instead.
+| 18 | No new structure: on Android an overlay is **per submit** (composited only on a submit that chains one; before v18 the last imported overlay was composited on every later submit) and a chained overlay the engine cannot import **refuses the submit before the woven output is touched** — the v16 rule. An Android caller that hands its whole 2D over as the overlay gates on `extensionVersion >= 18`. The macOS engine still drops an unreadable overlay. |
+
+**v18 is the same gate on Android**, for the same kind of caller.
 
 **v16 is a gate for one kind of caller**: one whose overlay IS its 2D (a whole-page overlay)
 must not send it to an older desktop-Linux runtime, which would weave without it and return
diff --git a/src/external/openxr_includes/openxr/XR_DXR_weave.h b/src/external/openxr_includes/openxr/XR_DXR_weave.h
index d237666181..301b677440 100644
--- a/src/external/openxr_includes/openxr/XR_DXR_weave.h
+++ b/src/external/openxr_includes/openxr/XR_DXR_weave.h
@@ -220,6 +220,15 @@
  * overlay IS its 2D gates on extensionVersion >= 17 before relying on it, and
  * otherwise keeps a mismatched overlay off the wire itself.
  *
+ * Android: an overlay is per submit, and an unreadable one refuses (SPEC_VERSION
+ * 18). No new structure: from v18 the Android engine applies the v16 rule too
+ * (a chained overlay it cannot import refuses the submit, XR_ERROR_RUNTIME_FAILURE,
+ * before the woven output is touched) and composites an overlay only on a submit
+ * that chains one. Before v18 it composited the last overlay it had imported on
+ * every later submit, chained or not. An Android caller that hands the whole of
+ * its 2D over as the overlay gates on extensionVersion >= 18. The macOS engine
+ * still drops an unreadable overlay.
+ *
  * Overlay filter strength (SPEC_VERSION 15). XrWeaveSubmitOverlayFilterDXR, chained
  * next to an XrWeaveSubmitOverlaysDXR: how strongly a display processor that
  * band-limits the 2D layer for its lens filters it, 0..1 (0 = no lens filtering,
@@ -303,7 +312,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #endif
 
 #define XR_DXR_weave 1
-#define XR_DXR_weave_SPEC_VERSION 17
+#define XR_DXR_weave_SPEC_VERSION 18
 #define XR_DXR_WEAVE_EXTENSION_NAME "XR_DXR_weave"
 
 // Reserved 1004999190..199. Final values reconcile with the Khronos registry
diff --git a/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_private.h b/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_private.h
index 3000031423..87f8827531 100644
--- a/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_private.h
+++ b/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_private.h
@@ -793,6 +793,15 @@ struct multi_compositor
 		bool overlay_first_use;
 		struct vk_local2d_composite overlay_blend;
 		bool overlay_blend_initialized;
+		/*!
+		 * XR_DXR_weave v18: THIS submit chained an overlay. The import above is
+		 * a cache (an AHardwareBuffer is re-sent every frame and matched by
+		 * pointer), so @c overlay_image outlives the submit that brought it; the
+		 * overlay is composited only when the current submit carries one.
+		 */
+		bool overlay_this_submit;
+		//! Submits refused because their chained overlay could not be imported.
+		uint32_t overlay_refusals;
 		//! @}
 
 		//! @name Arch-C weave satellite (#1277 P0) — service-presented weave
diff --git a/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_weave_android.c b/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_weave_android.c
index 02db386336..c06e20abd2 100644
--- a/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_weave_android.c
+++ b/src/xrt/compositor/multi/comp_multi_weave_android.c
@@ -1828,6 +1828,24 @@ comp_multi_weave_submit(struct xrt_compositor *xc,
 		}
 
 		// v4 overlay: same, into the SEPARATE overlay cache.
+		//
+		// XR_DXR_weave v18 (browser-pvt#226), two rules the desktop-Linux engine
+		// has had since v16 and the D3D11 service always had:
+		//  1. PER SUBMIT. The cache is keyed by buffer identity because the
+		//     caller re-sends the same AHardwareBuffer every frame, but a cached
+		//     import is NOT a standing overlay: a submit that chains none is woven
+		//     with none. Before v18 the last imported overlay was composited on
+		//     every later submit, so a caller that stops sending one (the
+		//     browser's whole-page overlay switches itself off while the page
+		//     scrolls) got its last page composited over a page that had moved.
+		//  2. REFUSE, don't drop. A chained overlay that cannot be imported
+		//     refuses the submit HERE, before anything is recorded, so the woven
+		//     output is left exactly as the previous accepted submit left it. A
+		//     caller that hands its whole 2D over as the overlay reads "accepted
+		//     with the overlay chained" as "composited" and presents the woven
+		//     output as the frame; before v18 that frame would have had its 2D
+		//     missing.
+		mc->weave.overlay_this_submit = overlay != XRT_GRAPHICS_BUFFER_HANDLE_INVALID;
 		if (overlay != XRT_GRAPHICS_BUFFER_HANDLE_INVALID &&
 		    (mc->weave.overlay_image == VK_NULL_HANDLE || mc->weave.overlay_ahb != (void *)overlay)) {
 			weave_release_overlay(vk, mc);
@@ -1840,6 +1858,14 @@ comp_multi_weave_submit(struct xrt_compositor *xc,
 				overlay = XRT_GRAPHICS_BUFFER_HANDLE_INVALID;
 				U_LOG_W("weave(#1036) v4: overlay import cached (%ux%u)", mc->weave.overlay_w,
 				        mc->weave.overlay_h);
+			} else {
+				const uint32_t n = mc->weave.overlay_refusals++;
+				if (n == 0 || (n % 300) == 0) {
+					U_LOG_W("weave(#1036) v18: overlay import failed — submit REFUSED, woven output "
+					        "untouched (refusals=%u)",
+					        n + 1);
+				}
+				break;
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -2380,7 +2406,7 @@ comp_multi_weave_submit(struct xrt_compositor *xc,
 		// blend, so crisp 2D lands on top of the interlaced 3D at screen depth.
 		// The overlay is NOT woven — it is drawn after process_atlas onto the same
 		// output attachment.
-		if (mc->weave.overlay_image != VK_NULL_HANDLE) {
+		if (mc->weave.overlay_image != VK_NULL_HANDLE && mc->weave.overlay_this_submit) {
 			bool blend_ready = mc->weave.overlay_blend_initialized;
 			if (!blend_ready) {
 				blend_ready = vk_local2d_composite_init(&mc->weave.overlay_blend, vk, WEAVE_VK_FORMAT,