diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 95d1c5e..7f05c16 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ All notable changes to PeerSpeak are documented here.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+- **Friends list now reflects status changes without a restart.** A presence probe that fails now actively marks the friend **offline**, so a friend who goes offline, leaves a room, or turns invisible no longer lingers showing a stale "online" / "in a room" status until PeerSpeak is relaunched. Previously only successful probes updated the list, so it could ratchet a friend's status up but never down. The list continues to auto-refresh every 60 seconds.
+
+### Added
+- **Manual "⟳ Rescan" button** on the Friends panel that refreshes everyone's presence immediately, instead of waiting for the next 60-second auto-refresh.
+
 ### Licensing
 - **PeerSpeak is now released under the MIT License** (previously an unlicensed private build). Added a `LICENSE` file and a `THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES` file enumerating the full dependency manifest plus the canonical text of every referenced license, with notices for the statically bundled Opus codec and the embedded fonts (Iced-Icons, Cantarell/OFL-1.1). Both files ship in the Arch and Debian packages.
 
diff --git a/src/app/mod.rs b/src/app/mod.rs
index fb41d2f..a102fcf 100644
--- a/src/app/mod.rs
+++ b/src/app/mod.rs
@@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ pub enum AppMessage {
     AddFriendFromRoom(EndpointId),
     RemoveFriend(EndpointId),
     RenameFriend(EndpointId, String),
+    /// Manually rescan all friends' presence now (the ⟳ button), instead of waiting
+    /// for the 60s scheduler tick. Statuses update as the probe replies arrive.
+    RefreshFriends,
     /// Join the gathering a friend is in (W7 B2), via the member ticket their
     /// presence reply carried. Mirrors a manual ticket join.
     JoinFriendRoom(String),
@@ -1894,6 +1897,11 @@ fn update(state: &mut AppState, message: AppMessage) -> Task<AppMessage> {
                 let _ = state.controller.send(CoreCommand::RenameFriend(id, new_name));
             }
         }
+        AppMessage::RefreshFriends => {
+            // Kick an immediate presence pass; the list updates as replies land.
+            let _ = state.controller.send(CoreCommand::RefreshFriends);
+            state.status_message = "Rescanning friends…".to_string();
+        }
         AppMessage::JoinFriendRoom(ticket) => {
             // Join via the friend's member ticket (same path as a manual join).
             let input_device = state.selected_input.as_ref().map(|d| d.name.clone());
@@ -3684,7 +3692,11 @@ fn friends_panel(state: &AppState) -> Element<'_, AppMessage> {
                 Some(crate::presence::FriendPresence::Online) => {
                     text("● online").size(11).color(color_green).into()
                 }
-                None => text("○ offline").size(11).color(color_subtext).into(),
+                // An explicit Offline (probe failed / no address) and a missing
+                // entry (not yet probed) both render as offline.
+                Some(crate::presence::FriendPresence::Offline) | None => {
+                    text("○ offline").size(11).color(color_subtext).into()
+                }
             };
             friend_rows = friend_rows.push(
                 row![
@@ -3768,10 +3780,27 @@ fn friends_panel(state: &AppState) -> Element<'_, AppMessage> {
     } else {
         column![].into()
     };
+    // Header: title + a manual "Rescan" button. Presence is also auto-refreshed
+    // every 60s, but the button forces an immediate pass for instant feedback.
+    // Only shown when there are friends to scan.
+    let title_row: Element<'_, AppMessage> = if has_friends {
+        row![
+            text("FRIENDS").size(18).color(color_text),
+            horizontal_space(),
+            button(text("⟳ Rescan").size(12))
+                .on_press(AppMessage::RefreshFriends)
+                .style(b_style(color_surface, color_blue, color_text, 6.0))
+                .padding(6),
+        ]
+        .align_y(iced::alignment::Vertical::Center)
+        .into()
+    } else {
+        text("FRIENDS").size(14).color(color_text).into()
+    };
 
     container(
         column![
-            text("FRIENDS").size(if has_friends { 18 } else { 14 }).color(color_text),
+            title_row,
             intro,
             vertical_space(if has_friends { 10.0 } else { 4.0 }),
             readonly_warning,
diff --git a/src/core/messages.rs b/src/core/messages.rs
index 11bafd0..da8df7b 100644
--- a/src/core/messages.rs
+++ b/src/core/messages.rs
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ pub enum CoreCommand {
     RemoveFriend(EndpointId),
     /// Locally rename a friend (W7).
     RenameFriend(EndpointId, String),
+    /// Run an immediate presence-refresh pass over all friends (the manual
+    /// "Rescan" button). Same work the 60s scheduler does on each tick, on demand —
+    /// no waiting for the next interval. A no-op while Invisible.
+    RefreshFriends,
     /// Set our presence posture (W7). Gates the idle listener (answer friends-only /
     /// invisible) and the outbound ping scheduler (invisible = fully dark). Sent at
     /// startup from config and whenever the user changes it.
@@ -203,6 +207,7 @@ pub fn delivery_class(cmd: &CoreCommand) -> DeliveryClass {
         }
         | CoreCommand::RemoveFriend(_)
         | CoreCommand::RenameFriend(_, _)
+        | CoreCommand::RefreshFriends
         | CoreCommand::SetPresenceMode(_)
         | CoreCommand::SetGamePresenceEnabled(_)
         | CoreCommand::SetGameOverride(_)
diff --git a/src/core/mod.rs b/src/core/mod.rs
index 11e28df..b5fe8e4 100644
--- a/src/core/mod.rs
+++ b/src/core/mod.rs
@@ -974,11 +974,14 @@ const PING_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(60);
 /// has a moment to finish (otherwise the first probes fail and friends flash offline).
 const PING_STARTUP_DELAY: Duration = Duration::from_secs(3);
 
-/// One outbound presence-refresh pass (W7 B2): probe every friend that has a saved
-/// address and emit their interpreted status. Friends with no saved address are
-/// skipped (a bare id can't resolve without discovery) and stay offline in the UI
-/// until first contact populates their address via `note_seen`. Probes run in
-/// parallel (friend counts are small); an unreachable friend just yields nothing.
+/// One outbound presence-refresh pass (W7 B2): probe every friend and emit a
+/// *definitive* status for each, so the UI self-heals every pass instead of only
+/// ratcheting a friend upward. A friend with a saved address is probed and mapped
+/// via [`crate::presence::presence_from_probe`] (a failed probe -> `Offline`); a
+/// friend with no saved address (a bare add-by-id we've never met in a room) is
+/// reported `Offline` directly, since a bare id can't resolve without discovery.
+/// Probes run in parallel (friend counts are small). This is the fix for stale
+/// "online"/"in a room" statuses lingering after a friend drops or leaves a room.
 async fn probe_friends_once(
     endpoint: Endpoint,
     friends: crate::friends::FriendStore,
@@ -986,18 +989,25 @@ async fn probe_friends_once(
 ) {
     let mut set = tokio::task::JoinSet::new();
     for f in friends.list() {
-        let Some(addr) = f.last_addr.clone() else { continue };
         let id = f.id;
+        let Some(addr) = f.last_addr.clone() else {
+            // Nothing to dial yet — report Offline so a prior status can't stick.
+            let _ = ui_tx
+                .send(UiEvent::FriendPresence { id, presence: crate::presence::FriendPresence::Offline })
+                .await;
+            continue;
+        };
         let ep = endpoint.clone();
         set.spawn(async move {
-            match crate::presence_net::probe(&ep, addr).await {
-                Ok((from, reply)) => crate::presence::interpret_pong(&reply, from).map(|p| (id, p)),
-                Err(_) => None,
-            }
+            let presence = match crate::presence_net::probe(&ep, addr).await {
+                Ok((from, reply)) => crate::presence::presence_from_probe(Some((&reply, from))),
+                Err(_) => crate::presence::presence_from_probe(None),
+            };
+            (id, presence)
         });
     }
     while let Some(res) = set.join_next().await {
-        if let Ok(Some((id, presence))) = res {
+        if let Ok((id, presence)) = res {
             let _ = ui_tx.send(UiEvent::FriendPresence { id, presence }).await;
         }
     }
@@ -2494,6 +2504,19 @@ async fn run_core_loop(
                 }
             }
 
+            CoreCommand::RefreshFriends => {
+                // Manual "Rescan": run an immediate probe pass (same as a scheduler
+                // tick), detached so it can't block command handling. Honour
+                // Invisible — stay fully dark and touch no friend's machine.
+                if *presence_mode.lock().unwrap() != crate::presence::PresenceMode::Invisible {
+                    tokio::spawn(probe_friends_once(
+                        net.endpoint.clone(),
+                        friends.lock().unwrap().clone(),
+                        ui_tx.clone(),
+                    ));
+                }
+            }
+
             CoreCommand::SetPresenceMode(mode) => {
                 let previous_mode = *presence_mode.lock().unwrap();
                 let now = tokio::time::Instant::now();
diff --git a/src/presence.rs b/src/presence.rs
index 69ec24c..9192242 100644
--- a/src/presence.rs
+++ b/src/presence.rs
@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@ pub fn should_answer(from: &EndpointId, friends: &FriendStore, mode: PresenceMod
     mode.answers_pings() && friends.contains(from)
 }
 
-/// What we learned about a friend from a successful ping reply.
+/// What we learned about a friend's reachability. `Online`/`InRoom` come from a
+/// successful ping reply (see [`interpret_pong`]); `Offline` is produced by the
+/// presence scheduler when a probe fails or the friend has no known address, so a
+/// friend who drops or leaves is *actively* downgraded rather than left showing a
+/// stale status. The UI also treats a missing entry as offline.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum FriendPresence {
     /// Online, but not in a gathering we can join.
@@ -108,6 +112,8 @@ pub enum FriendPresence {
     /// Online and in a joinable gathering (name already sanitized, ticket already
     /// validated as parseable).
     InRoom { name: String, ticket: String },
+    /// Unreachable: the probe failed, or we have no address to probe yet.
+    Offline,
 }
 
 /// Interpret a peer's reply defensively. `from` must be the connection's
@@ -140,6 +146,20 @@ pub fn interpret_pong(msg: &ControlMsg, from: EndpointId) -> Option<FriendPresen
     }
 }
 
+/// Map a single probe outcome to a definitive [`FriendPresence`], used by the
+/// presence scheduler. `Some((reply, from))` is a received message from the
+/// authenticated remote `from`; `None` means the probe failed (offline /
+/// unreachable / refused). Anything that doesn't interpret as a real presence —
+/// a probe error, or a non-`Pong` reply — becomes [`FriendPresence::Offline`], so
+/// a friend who drops is actively downgraded instead of keeping a stale status.
+/// Pure so the scheduler's downgrade behaviour is unit-testable without a network.
+pub fn presence_from_probe(reply: Option<(&ControlMsg, EndpointId)>) -> FriendPresence {
+    match reply {
+        Some((msg, from)) => interpret_pong(msg, from).unwrap_or(FriendPresence::Offline),
+        None => FriendPresence::Offline,
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
@@ -252,6 +272,33 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(got, Some(FriendPresence::Online));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn presence_from_probe_maps_outcomes_to_definitive_status() {
+        let friend = id();
+        // A failed probe (no reply) is an explicit downgrade to Offline, so the UI
+        // clears a friend who has dropped instead of keeping a stale status.
+        assert_eq!(presence_from_probe(None), FriendPresence::Offline);
+        // A successful Pong with no room is Online.
+        assert_eq!(
+            presence_from_probe(Some((&ControlMsg::Pong { room: None }, friend))),
+            FriendPresence::Online
+        );
+        // A successful Pong advertising the friend's own room is InRoom.
+        let t = valid_ticket(friend);
+        assert_eq!(
+            presence_from_probe(Some((
+                &ControlMsg::Pong { room: Some(RoomPresence { name: "Den".into(), ticket: t.clone() }) },
+                friend,
+            ))),
+            FriendPresence::InRoom { name: "Den".into(), ticket: t }
+        );
+        // A non-reply (a stray Ping) is not a presence -> Offline, never a false Online.
+        assert_eq!(
+            presence_from_probe(Some((&ControlMsg::Ping, friend))),
+            FriendPresence::Offline
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn interpret_pong_sanitizes_a_hostile_room_name() {
         // Control/bidi characters in a peer-supplied name are stripped.