diff --git a/Sources/DoNotTypeApp/SettingsView.swift b/Sources/DoNotTypeApp/SettingsView.swift
index 0d9202f..a2791c3 100644
--- a/Sources/DoNotTypeApp/SettingsView.swift
+++ b/Sources/DoNotTypeApp/SettingsView.swift
@@ -1351,10 +1351,18 @@ private struct TranscriptStyleSection: View {
                         .disabled(model.dictationExample.isEmpty)
                 }
             }
+            // The sentence goes in `prompt:`, not in the title. A TextField's first argument is
+            // its *label*, which a Form renders beside or above the field and keeps there whatever
+            // the field contains — so a title reading "Empty — …" sat above a box with text in it
+            // and flatly contradicted the thing it was describing. `prompt:` is the placeholder:
+            // it shows only while the box is empty, which is the one moment the sentence is true.
             TextField(
-                "Empty — however the model would write it",
-                text: $model.dictationExample, axis: .vertical
+                "Your example",
+                text: $model.dictationExample,
+                prompt: Text("Empty — however the model would write it"),
+                axis: .vertical
             )
+            .labelsHidden()
             .lineLimit(4...12)
             .textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
             .accessibilityIdentifier("dictation-example")
diff --git a/ios/App/SettingsView.swift b/ios/App/SettingsView.swift
index 8c9e21f..09f7865 100644
--- a/ios/App/SettingsView.swift
+++ b/ios/App/SettingsView.swift
@@ -279,10 +279,17 @@ struct SettingsView: View {
                     .disabled(model.dictationExample.isEmpty)
                     .accessibilityIdentifier("preset-clear")
             }
+            // `prompt:` rather than the title, to say what this string is instead of relying on
+            // the platform to guess. iOS happens to render a Form TextField's title inside the
+            // field, so this looked right here while the identical line on macOS put "Empty — …"
+            // in the label column, where it stayed above a box with text in it.
             TextField(
-                "Empty — however the model would write it",
-                text: $model.dictationExample, axis: .vertical
+                "Your example",
+                text: $model.dictationExample,
+                prompt: Text("Empty — however the model would write it"),
+                axis: .vertical
             )
+            .labelsHidden()
             .lineLimit(4...12)
             .accessibilityIdentifier("dictation-example")
             Text(