diff --git a/ios/HouseScan/Runtime/ResultClient.swift b/ios/HouseScan/Runtime/ResultClient.swift
index 09a00d3f2..567884fc2 100644
--- a/ios/HouseScan/Runtime/ResultClient.swift
+++ b/ios/HouseScan/Runtime/ResultClient.swift
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ protocol ResultClient: AnyObject {
 /// the body and `Content-Type: application/json`. Only the JSON goes: the server's solver reads no
 /// photos and skips the image check for a bare scene.json, so the keyframes stay on the phone
 /// (and in the scan folder's `scan.zip`, which leaves only if the homeowner shares it). The
-/// response body is the result JSON.
+/// response body is the result JSON, and it is returned only when it names the scene sent: its
+/// `stats.input_sha256` must be present and be the hash of these exact bytes (`ResultBinding`).
+/// Any other answer throws, and the upload screen treats it as an answer it couldn't read.
 @MainActor
 final class HTTPResultClient: ResultClient {
     let serverURL: URL
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@ final class HTTPResultClient: ResultClient {
                 status: http.statusCode, body: String(decoding: data.prefix(300), as: UTF8.self),
                 retryAfter: http.value(forHTTPHeaderField: "Retry-After"))
         }
+        try ResultBinding.check(answer: data, submittedScene: scene)
         progress(1)
         return data
     }
@@ -137,7 +140,9 @@ final class UploadProgressDelegate: NSObject, URLSessionTaskDelegate, Sendable {
 }
 
 /// Answers with the bundled SampleResult.json, for tests and demos without a server. The result
-/// is flagged `isSample` so the screen says it is not a real analysis.
+/// is flagged `isSample` so the screen says it is not a real analysis. It answers no particular
+/// scene (its `input_sha256` is all zeros), so it is deliberately not checked with
+/// `ResultBinding`.
 @MainActor
 final class SampleResultClient: ResultClient {
     let isSample = true
diff --git a/ios/HouseScanKit/Sources/HouseScanKit/Scene/ResultBinding.swift b/ios/HouseScanKit/Sources/HouseScanKit/Scene/ResultBinding.swift
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..869c59000
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ios/HouseScanKit/Sources/HouseScanKit/Scene/ResultBinding.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import Foundation
+
+/// Ties a placement answer to the scene this phone sent. The server writes the SHA-256 of the
+/// scene bytes it parsed into `stats.input_sha256`: for a bare scene.json that is the request body
+/// itself (server/api.py `_parse` passes the body to `parse_scene`, which hashes it). The result
+/// schema requires the field as 64 lowercase hex digits (server/schemas/result.schema.json).
+///
+/// An answer is accepted only when it carries that hash and the hash is of the bytes sent. An
+/// answer for another scene, or one whose hash is missing or unreadable, is never shown. This is
+/// a defence against a mismatched response; nothing shows the current server sending one.
+public enum ResultBinding {
+    public enum Refusal: Error, Equatable, CustomStringConvertible {
+        /// The answer has no `stats.input_sha256` string, or isn't JSON this check can read.
+        case noInputHash
+        /// `stats.input_sha256` isn't 64 lowercase hex digits.
+        case malformedInputHash(String)
+        /// The answer names another scene. Both hashes are lowercase hex.
+        case mismatch(submitted: String, declared: String)
+
+        /// Goes to the device log, so it names what went wrong but never a hash: a scene's hash
+        /// fingerprints a homeowner's scan. The values stay in the cases for callers and tests.
+        public var description: String {
+            switch self {
+            case .noInputHash: "answer has no readable stats.input_sha256"
+            case .malformedInputHash(let value): "answer's stats.input_sha256 is malformed (\(value.utf8.count) bytes)"
+            case .mismatch: "answer's stats.input_sha256 is not the hash of the scene sent"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Throws a `Refusal` unless `answer` declares `stats.input_sha256` as the SHA-256 of `scene`.
+    /// Anything this can't read refuses the answer: a check that skipped unreadable metadata would
+    /// let a mismatched answer through whenever the general decoder is more lenient than this one.
+    public static func check(answer: Data, submittedScene scene: Data) throws {
+        let declared: String
+        do {
+            declared = try JSONDecoder().decode(Answer.self, from: answer).stats.inputSHA256
+        } catch {
+            throw Refusal.noInputHash
+        }
+        guard isSHA256Hex(declared) else { throw Refusal.malformedInputHash(declared) }
+        let submitted = PacketFiles.sha256(scene)
+        guard declared == submitted else { throw Refusal.mismatch(submitted: submitted, declared: declared) }
+    }
+
+    /// The schema's form for the field, `^[0-9a-f]{64}$`.
+    static func isSHA256Hex(_ text: String) -> Bool {
+        text.utf8.count == 64 && text.utf8.allSatisfy { (0x30...0x39).contains($0) || (0x61...0x66).contains($0) }
+    }
+
+    private struct Answer: Decodable {
+        struct Stats: Decodable {
+            var inputSHA256: String
+            enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey { case inputSHA256 = "input_sha256" }
+        }
+        var stats: Stats
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ios/HouseScanKit/Tests/HouseScanKitTests/ResultBindingTests.swift b/ios/HouseScanKit/Tests/HouseScanKitTests/ResultBindingTests.swift
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93b764da9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ios/HouseScanKit/Tests/HouseScanKitTests/ResultBindingTests.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+import Foundation
+import HouseScanKit
+import Testing
+
+/// A placement answer from the server is shown only for the scene that was sent: its
+/// `stats.input_sha256` must be present, in the schema's form, and the SHA-256 of those exact
+/// bytes. Built from a real server answer to the synthetic replay.
+@Suite struct ResultBindingTests {
+    static let scene = Data(#"{"note":"the bytes this phone sent"}"#.utf8)
+    static let fixtureHash = "2cb165cd4d4e9340496d90a589678ccbbe8ae6720d9d73bcae427a6b22075cb7"
+    static let hashLine = "\"input_sha256\": \"\(fixtureHash)\","
+
+    static func answer() throws -> String {
+        let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: #filePath).deletingLastPathComponent()
+            .appendingPathComponent("Schemas/server-answer-synthetic-wall.json")
+        let text = String(decoding: try Data(contentsOf: url), as: UTF8.self)
+        #expect(text.contains(hashLine))
+        return text
+    }
+
+    /// The real answer with its `input_sha256` line replaced by `line` (empty removes it).
+    static func answer(replacingHashLineWith line: String) throws -> Data {
+        Data(try answer().replacingOccurrences(of: hashLine, with: line).utf8)
+    }
+
+    static func answer(declaring hash: String) throws -> Data {
+        try answer(replacingHashLineWith: "\"input_sha256\": \"\(hash)\",")
+    }
+
+    static func refusal(_ data: Data) throws -> ResultBinding.Refusal {
+        let refusal = try #require(throws: ResultBinding.Refusal.self) {
+            try ResultBinding.check(answer: data, submittedScene: Self.scene)
+        }
+        // Every refusal is the "couldn't read the answer" failure: back to the review, no retry.
+        #expect(UploadFailureKind.classify(refusal) == .unreadableAnswer)
+        #expect(!UploadFailureKind.classify(refusal).retryable)
+        return refusal
+    }
+
+    @Test func anAnswerForTheSceneSentPassesAndDecodes() throws {
+        let data = try Self.answer(declaring: PacketFiles.sha256(Self.scene))
+        try ResultBinding.check(answer: data, submittedScene: Self.scene)
+        #expect(try PlacementResult.decode(data).decision == .manualReview)
+    }
+
+    @Test func anAnswerForAnotherSceneIsRefused() throws {
+        let other = PacketFiles.sha256(Data("another scene".utf8))
+        #expect(try Self.refusal(Self.answer(declaring: other)) == .mismatch(submitted: PacketFiles.sha256(Self.scene), declared: other))
+    }
+
+    /// The upload logs a refusal's description publicly, so it carries no scene hash.
+    @Test func aRefusalsDescriptionNamesNoHash() throws {
+        let sent = PacketFiles.sha256(Self.scene)
+        let other = PacketFiles.sha256(Data("another scene".utf8))
+        let refusals: [ResultBinding.Refusal] = [
+            try Self.refusal(Self.answer(declaring: other)),
+            try Self.refusal(Self.answer(declaring: String(other.dropLast()))),
+            try Self.refusal(Self.answer(replacingHashLineWith: "")),
+        ]
+        for refusal in refusals {
+            let text = String(describing: refusal)
+            #expect(!text.contains(sent) && !text.contains(other) && !text.contains(String(other.dropLast())))
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// No readable hash refuses the answer, whatever the general decoder would make of it.
+    @Test(arguments: [
+        ("absent", ""),
+        ("null", "\"input_sha256\": null,"),
+        ("a number", "\"input_sha256\": 7,"),
+    ])
+    func anAnswerWithoutAHashIsRefused(_ kind: String, line: String) throws {
+        #expect(try Self.refusal(Self.answer(replacingHashLineWith: line)) == .noInputHash)
+    }
+
+    /// The schema's form is 64 lowercase hex digits; the right digits in capitals, or too few,
+    /// are refused rather than compared.
+    @Test(arguments: ["UPPER", "short", "notHex"])
+    func aMalformedHashIsRefused(_ kind: String) throws {
+        let good = PacketFiles.sha256(Self.scene)
+        let value = switch kind {
+        case "UPPER": good.uppercased()
+        case "short": String(good.dropLast())
+        default: String(good.dropLast()) + "z"
+        }
+        #expect(try Self.refusal(Self.answer(declaring: value)) == .malformedInputHash(value))
+    }
+
+    @Test func anAnswerThatIsNotJSONIsRefused() throws {
+        #expect(try Self.refusal(Data("not json".utf8)) == .noInputHash)
+    }
+
+    /// A field this check doesn't read can't make it skip the comparison: an answer for another
+    /// scene that also carries a number too large for a Double is still refused.
+    @Test func anUnusualIgnoredFieldDoesNotSkipTheCheck() throws {
+        let other = PacketFiles.sha256(Data("another scene".utf8))
+        let text = try Self.answer().replacingOccurrences(of: Self.hashLine, with: "\"input_sha256\": \"\(other)\", \"extra\": 1e400,")
+        #expect(throws: ResultBinding.Refusal.self) {
+            try ResultBinding.check(answer: Data(text.utf8), submittedScene: Self.scene)
+        }
+    }
+}