diff --git a/frontend/src/components/SyncStatus.tsx b/frontend/src/components/SyncStatus.tsx
index 435d70d..c3d7bcf 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/SyncStatus.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/SyncStatus.tsx
@@ -128,19 +128,29 @@ export default function SyncStatus({
             </span>
           </span>
         </Tooltip>
-        {showMain && <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5">{stateNode}</div>}
-        {notFull > 0 && (
-          <Tooltip hint={t("header.sync.fullHistoryTooltip")}>
-            <button
-              onClick={onGoToFullHistory}
-              className="flex items-center gap-1 hover:text-fg underline decoration-dotted decoration-muted/40 underline-offset-4 transition cursor-pointer"
-            >
-              <History className="w-3.5 h-3.5" />
-              {t("header.sync.withoutFullHistory", { count: notFull })}
-            </button>
-          </Tooltip>
+        {/* Pause sits inline at the right end of the primary status row (the sync state, or —
+            when idle with only deep-history pending — the "N without full history" row), never on
+            an orphaned line of its own. */}
+        {showMain && (
+          <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-1.5">
+            <span className="flex items-center gap-1.5 min-w-0">{stateNode}</span>
+            {pauseBtn}
+          </div>
+        )}
+        {notFull > 0 && (
+          <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-1.5">
+            <Tooltip hint={t("header.sync.fullHistoryTooltip")}>
+              <button
+                onClick={onGoToFullHistory}
+                className="flex items-center gap-1 hover:text-fg underline decoration-dotted decoration-muted/40 underline-offset-4 transition cursor-pointer"
+              >
+                <History className="w-3.5 h-3.5" />
+                {t("header.sync.withoutFullHistory", { count: notFull })}
+              </button>
+            </Tooltip>
+            {!showMain && pauseBtn}
+          </div>
         )}
-        {pauseBtn && <div className="pt-0.5">{pauseBtn}</div>}
       </div>
     );
   }