diff --git a/internal/session/instance.go b/internal/session/instance.go
index 7c92e81f..40f7ae27 100644
--- a/internal/session/instance.go
+++ b/internal/session/instance.go
@@ -608,6 +608,29 @@ func (inst *Instance) GetLastActivityTime() time.Time {
 	return inst.CreatedAt
 }
 
+// DisplayLastActivityTime returns the timestamp to show as "last active" in
+// the UI. It intentionally differs from GetLastActivityTime: that method
+// returns the tmux tracker's raw lastChangeTime (which is seeded with
+// time.Now() when the tracker is lazily created, so it leaks ~ the TUI load
+// time for sessions that never confirm real activity — e.g. error/idle/
+// stopped panes) and also feeds OpenCode rotation windows, so its semantics
+// must not change.
+//
+// Here we consult only CONFIRMED activity (LastObservedActivity guards on
+// realActivityConfirmed). When none has been observed we fall back to the
+// persisted last-accessed time — matching what the web serves — and finally
+// to CreatedAt. This keeps the TUI "⏱ last active" line in agreement with
+// the web instead of resetting to the most recent TUI load.
+func (inst *Instance) DisplayLastActivityTime() time.Time {
+	if ts, ok := inst.LastObservedActivity(); ok {
+		return ts
+	}
+	if !inst.LastAccessedAt.IsZero() {
+		return inst.LastAccessedAt
+	}
+	return inst.CreatedAt
+}
+
 // LastObservedActivity returns the last time the tmux tracker confirmed a
 // real busy spike for this session, and a bool that is false when no
 // confirmation has happened (the instance has no tmux session, or the
diff --git a/internal/session/instance_display_activity_test.go b/internal/session/instance_display_activity_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4151f92e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/session/instance_display_activity_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package session
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// DisplayLastActivityTime is the UI-facing "last active" timestamp. Unlike
+// GetLastActivityTime (which feeds OpenCode rotation windows and returns the
+// tmux tracker's raw lastChangeTime), it must never leak the tracker's
+// initialization timestamp (~ TUI load time) for a session that has no
+// CONFIRMED activity. Error/idle/stopped sessions with a live-but-inactive
+// tmux pane fall into exactly that case: the web shows the persisted
+// last-accessed time, and the TUI must match it rather than jumping to the
+// most recent TUI load. See the last-used regression.
+
+func TestDisplayLastActivityTime_NoConfirmedActivity_UsesLastAccessed(t *testing.T) {
+	accessed := time.Now().Add(-24 * time.Hour)
+	created := time.Now().Add(-72 * time.Hour)
+	// nil tmuxSession => LastObservedActivity() reports (zero,false), i.e. no
+	// confirmed activity — the error-session case.
+	inst := &Instance{ID: "err-sess", CreatedAt: created, LastAccessedAt: accessed}
+
+	got := inst.DisplayLastActivityTime()
+	if !got.Equal(accessed) {
+		t.Errorf("with no confirmed activity, want LastAccessedAt %v, got %v", accessed, got)
+	}
+	// Must NOT report ~now (the load-time leak this fix targets).
+	if time.Since(got) < time.Hour {
+		t.Errorf("display time %v is suspiciously recent — the load-time leak is back", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDisplayLastActivityTime_NoAccess_FallsBackToCreated(t *testing.T) {
+	created := time.Now().Add(-72 * time.Hour)
+	inst := &Instance{ID: "err-sess-2", CreatedAt: created} // LastAccessedAt zero
+
+	got := inst.DisplayLastActivityTime()
+	if !got.Equal(created) {
+		t.Errorf("with no access and no activity, want CreatedAt %v, got %v", created, got)
+	}
+}
+
+// The zero-data tail: very old rows persist last_accessed AND created_at as the
+// Go zero sentinel (-62135596800 unix). Both fall through to a zero time, which
+// the UI renders as "unknown" — an honest blank, never the ~load-time leak.
+func TestDisplayLastActivityTime_AllZero_ReturnsZeroNotLoadTime(t *testing.T) {
+	inst := &Instance{ID: "err-sess-3"} // CreatedAt and LastAccessedAt both zero
+
+	got := inst.DisplayLastActivityTime()
+	if !got.IsZero() {
+		t.Errorf("with no access, activity, or creation time, want zero time, got %v", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/ui/home.go b/internal/ui/home.go
index d8904433..c82a40dc 100644
--- a/internal/ui/home.go
+++ b/internal/ui/home.go
@@ -16215,8 +16215,11 @@ func (h *Home) renderPreviewPane(width, height int) string {
 	b.WriteString(infoStyle.Render("📁 " + pathStr))
 	b.WriteString("\n")
 
-	// Activity time - shows when session was last active
-	activityTime := selected.GetLastActivityTime()
+	// Activity time - shows when session was last active. Uses the display-
+	// oriented accessor so sessions with no confirmed activity (error/idle/
+	// stopped) fall back to the persisted last-accessed time — matching the
+	// web — instead of leaking the tmux tracker's ~load-time seed.
+	activityTime := selected.DisplayLastActivityTime()
 	activityStr := formatRelativeTime(activityTime)
 	if selectedStatus == session.StatusRunning {
 		activityStr = "active now"