diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 914faa0..4e98ad3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ one is up, dots alone when there are more (hover for the names).
 
 Open the menu and:
 
-- **Click a profile** to switch to it. Every other running profile is quit
-  first, so you end up with just that one.
+- **Click a profile that isn't running** to switch to it. Every other running
+  profile is quit first, so you end up with just that one.
+- **Click a profile that is already running** to bring its window forward,
+  leaving everything else where it is.
 - **Shift-click a profile** to open it *alongside* whatever is already running.
-- **Click a running profile** to bring its window to the front.
 
 A `⇆` marks the profile you last switched to. **Close Profile** quits one
 profile; **Quit Claude** quits all of them and leaves shannoncoat running.
diff --git a/Sources/AppDelegate.swift b/Sources/AppDelegate.swift
index dee617e..b58ad49 100644
--- a/Sources/AppDelegate.swift
+++ b/Sources/AppDelegate.swift
@@ -360,7 +360,19 @@ final class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSMenuDelegate, LiveSt
         }
     }
 
+    // Switching means "make this the one that's running" — so it only has to
+    // quit anything when the profile isn't up yet. Clicking one that's
+    // already open is a request to look at it, not to tear down the window
+    // beside it: the menu shows every running profile at once, so the click
+    // that reaches for the second one is almost always someone moving
+    // between two open windows rather than asking for one of them to go.
+    // Quitting the neighbour there costs a relaunch and whatever was on
+    // screen, to carry out an instruction nobody gave.
     private func switchTo(_ profile: ResolvedProfile) {
+        guard !currentInfos.contains(where: { $0.profile.name == profile.name && $0.running }) else {
+            openProfile(profile)
+            return
+        }
         let others = currentInfos.filter { $0.running && $0.profile.name != profile.name }
         guard !others.isEmpty else { openProfile(profile); return }
         var remaining = others.count