diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.Android/Views/PhoneShell.axaml.cs b/src/DodoSSH.Client.Android/Views/PhoneShell.axaml.cs
index d355493..fa804c9 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.Android/Views/PhoneShell.axaml.cs
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.Android/Views/PhoneShell.axaml.cs
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ internal sealed partial class PhoneShell : UserControl
 {
     private MainWindowViewModel? shell;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Everything the phone draws, which is the element the software keyboard is kept off.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Looked up rather than read off the field the name generator declares for <c>x:Name</c>, and
+    /// <c>TerminalScreen</c> does the same for the same reason: that field is assigned by the generated
+    /// <c>InitializeComponent</c>, and no view on this head calls it — they load their XAML directly. Using
+    /// it compiles and is null at run time, which on this control means a crash before the first frame.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private readonly Panel body;
+
     /// <summary>The software keyboard, while this control is attached. Null on a platform without one.</summary>
     private IInputPane? keyboard;
 
@@ -37,10 +48,12 @@ internal sealed partial class PhoneShell : UserControl
     {
         AvaloniaXamlLoader.Load(this);
 
-        // Subscribed once, for the life of the control, rather than in OnAttachedToVisualTree: Body is this
-        // control's own child and cannot outlive it, and re-subscribing on every attach is how a handler
-        // ends up registered twice.
-        Body.SizeChanged += OnBodyResized;
+        body = this.FindControl<Panel>("Body")!;
+
+        // Subscribed once, for the life of the control, rather than in OnAttachedToVisualTree: the panel is
+        // this control's own child and cannot outlive it, and re-subscribing on every attach is how a
+        // handler ends up registered twice.
+        body.SizeChanged += OnBodyResized;
 
         DataContextChanged += (_, _) =>
         {
@@ -208,9 +221,9 @@ internal sealed partial class PhoneShell : UserControl
     {
         var inset = double.IsFinite(occluded) ? Math.Max(occluded, 0) : 0;
 
-        if (Math.Abs(Body.Margin.Bottom - inset) > 0.5)
+        if (Math.Abs(body.Margin.Bottom - inset) > 0.5)
         {
-            Body.Margin = new Thickness(0, 0, 0, inset);
+            body.Margin = new Thickness(0, 0, 0, inset);
         }
     }