diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.test.ts b/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.test.ts
index d779714f0..ecdf438fe 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.test.ts
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ describe("computePosition", () => {
 
 describe("getTransformOrigin", () => {
   it.each([
-    ["bottom", "start", "top left"],
-    ["top", "end", "bottom right"],
+    ["bottom", "start", "left top"],
+    ["top", "end", "right bottom"],
     ["right", "center", "center center"],
   ] as const)("maps %s/%s to %s", (placement, alignment, expected) => {
     expect(getTransformOrigin(placement, alignment)).toBe(expected);
diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.ts b/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.ts
index e255fc74a..c7548dde6 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/ui/menu/menu-anchor.ts
@@ -155,5 +155,7 @@ export function getTransformOrigin(placement: Placement, alignment: Alignment):
   else if (alignment === "end") horizontal = "right";
   else horizontal = "center";
 
-  return `${vertical} ${horizontal}`;
+  // React Native parses transform-origin positionally (x then y), unlike CSS
+  // which accepts keyword pairs in either order.
+  return `${horizontal} ${vertical}`;
 }