diff --git a/docs/adr/0007-remote-device-leases.md b/docs/adr/0007-remote-device-leases.md
index 9585d2f299..dee137a90c 100644
--- a/docs/adr/0007-remote-device-leases.md
+++ b/docs/adr/0007-remote-device-leases.md
@@ -173,8 +173,11 @@ A `macos-app` lease's device key is a bundle id, optionally pinned to one proces
 only a host administrator allocates one, over the loopback `/admin/leases` route that uses the daemon
 token like host holds; tenant `lease_allocate` refuses the backend. The host picks the lease id, a
 repeated PUT renews it, and a PUT naming another scope for an existing id is refused rather than
-rewritten. Heartbeat, expiry, release, and the loss on daemon restart are those of any lease, except
-that a tenant heartbeat or request cannot renew it for longer than the window of the host's last PUT.
+rewritten. Heartbeat, expiry, and the loss on daemon restart are those of any lease, except that a
+tenant heartbeat or request cannot renew it for longer than the window of the host's last PUT, and
+a tenant cannot release it: `lease_release` is refused with `MACOS_APP_LEASE_HOST_OWNED`. The lease
+ends by the host's `DELETE /admin/leases/<lease-id>`, by expiry, by the loss on daemon restart, or
+when a session it holds closes and the host set `retainOnClose` to false.
 
 Request admission confines every request admitted under the lease, so `batch` steps and `replay`
 actions are confined when they re-enter it: an allow list of commands, the ones whose command
@@ -182,7 +185,7 @@ registry descriptor declares `appLease: 'allowed'` (later commands are refused,
 lease admission otherwise exempts only `lease_heartbeat` and `lease_release` declare it),
 `open` and `close` of the leased bundle only, the `app` surface only, window-only screenshots, no
 input that names a host path or launches beside the app, and an existing session that is the leased
-app for every request but `open`, the `batch` envelope, and the lease's heartbeat and release, so a
+app for every request but `open` and the `batch` envelope, so a
 request naming no session cannot fall back to the host Mac. `open` requires the native app backend (ADR 0031), because XCTest
 posts screen events that can land outside the app's window. A pid-pinned lease is checked against the
 running process before each admitted request. A session opened under the lease holds its app, not
diff --git a/src/daemon/macos-app-lease.ts b/src/daemon/macos-app-lease.ts
index 8d54eab595..a739aed375 100644
--- a/src/daemon/macos-app-lease.ts
+++ b/src/daemon/macos-app-lease.ts
@@ -38,14 +38,9 @@ export function parseMacOsAppLeaseKey(deviceKey: string | undefined): MacOsAppLe
 
 /**
  * The requests that run without the leased app's session: `open` creates it, each `batch` step is
- * admitted again when it runs, and a heartbeat acts on the lease alone, and a release is refused (the host ends the lease).
+ * admitted again when it runs.
  */
-const SESSIONLESS_COMMANDS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
-  'open',
-  'batch',
-  'lease_heartbeat',
-  'lease_release',
-]);
+const SESSIONLESS_COMMANDS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(['open', 'batch']);
 
 type MacOsAppLeaseRule =
   | 'command'
diff --git a/website/docs/docs/remote-proxy.md b/website/docs/docs/remote-proxy.md
index c90ca7cbbd..d75dbbbe1b 100644
--- a/website/docs/docs/remote-proxy.md
+++ b/website/docs/docs/remote-proxy.md
@@ -142,8 +142,10 @@ that names another scope for an existing id is refused. The lease stays allocate
 client's `close` unless the body sets `retainOnClose: false`, and DELETE revokes it at once. It
 expires after `ttlMs` without a renewal or a client request, like any lease. A client heartbeat can
 shorten that window but never extend it past the `ttlMs` of the last PUT. A client cannot release
-it: `disconnect` drops only its local connection state, and a tenant `lease_release` is refused
-with `MACOS_APP_LEASE_HOST_OWNED`.
+it: `disconnect` drops only its local connection state, and a tenant `lease_release` is refused with
+`MACOS_APP_LEASE_HOST_OWNED`. The lease ends by the host's `DELETE /admin/leases/<lease-id>`, by
+expiry, by daemon restart, or when a session it holds closes and the body set `retainOnClose` to
+false.
 
 The client connects with a remote config that names the lease, and runs `open <bundleId>`:
 
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ The client connects with a remote config that names the lease, and runs `open <b
 
 Requests under a `macos-app` lease are limited to `open`, `close`, `snapshot`, `wait`,
 `find`, `get`, `is`, `click`, `fill`, `press`, `type`, `focus`, `scroll`, `screenshot`, and `batch`,
-plus the lease's own heartbeat and release; `doctor`, `devices`, `session list` and the other
+plus the lease's own heartbeat; `doctor`, `devices`, `session list` and the other
 inventory commands are refused too.
 `open` and `close` accept only the leased bundle id, only the `app` surface is allowed, screenshots
 capture only the app window, inputs that name a host path or a launch (`--save-script`,