diff --git a/web/src/lib/services/photoprism.ts b/web/src/lib/services/photoprism.ts
index 4800ef1..83c4b88 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/services/photoprism.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/services/photoprism.ts
@@ -68,28 +68,51 @@ export async function fetchSession(id: string): Promise<PpSessionResponse> {
 }
 
 /**
- * After OIDC completes, PhotoPrism redirects to `siteUrl` with two cookies
- * set: `auth_token` (the X-Auth-Token value) and `auth_session` (the session
- * UID). If both are present, fetch the matching session and adopt it so the
- * SPA picks up the OIDC-issued identity without a username/password trip.
+ * After OIDC completes, PhotoPrism returns an HTML page that writes the
+ * issued session into `localStorage` under the namespaced keys
+ * `pp:<storageNamespace>:session.{id,token,user,provider}` and then runs
+ * `window.location.href = "/library/login"`. With our Caddy bouncing
+ * `/library/*` back to `/`, the browser lands on the SvelteKit root with
+ * those entries already in localStorage but with no PhotoPrism cookies set
+ * — so we read them back to adopt the OIDC-issued session.
  *
- * Returns the adopted session, or null when the cookies are missing or stale
+ * Returns the adopted session, or null when nothing is waiting in storage
  * (caller treats null as "stay on /login").
  */
-export async function bootstrapSessionFromCookies(): Promise<PpSessionResponse | null> {
+export async function bootstrapSessionFromPhotoPrism(): Promise<PpSessionResponse | null> {
 	if (!browser) return null;
-	const read = (name: string): string | null => {
-		const m = document.cookie.match(new RegExp('(?:^|; )' + name + '=([^;]+)'));
-		return m ? decodeURIComponent(m[1]) : null;
-	};
-	const token = read('auth_token');
-	const sid = read('auth_session');
-	if (!token || !sid) return null;
-	// Prime the http client so the X-Auth-Token interceptor fires.
+	// PhotoPrism's storageNamespace is per-instance (build-time hash); fetch
+	// it via /api/v1/config so we resolve the right key prefix.
+	let namespace: string | undefined;
+	try {
+		const cfg = await getConfig();
+		namespace = cfg.storageNamespace;
+	} catch {
+		return null;
+	}
+	if (!namespace) return null;
+	const prefix = `pp:${namespace}:`;
+	const sid = localStorage.getItem(prefix + 'session.id');
+	const token = localStorage.getItem(prefix + 'session.token');
+	if (!sid || !token) return null;
+	// Prime the http client so the X-Auth-Token interceptor fires for the
+	// session lookup below.
 	session.accessToken = token;
 	try {
 		const resp = await fetchSession(sid);
 		adoptSession(resp);
+		// adoptSession persists into our own storage key (`pp_session`);
+		// PhotoPrism's `pp:<ns>:session.*` entries are one-shot delivery,
+		// so clear them now to avoid stale state on logout.
+		for (const k of [
+			'session.id',
+			'session.token',
+			'session.user',
+			'session.provider',
+			'session.error'
+		]) {
+			localStorage.removeItem(prefix + k);
+		}
 		return resp;
 	} catch {
 		session.accessToken = null;
diff --git a/web/src/lib/types/photoprism.ts b/web/src/lib/types/photoprism.ts
index c30a398..16875a2 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/types/photoprism.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/types/photoprism.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ export interface PpClientConfig {
 	previewToken: string;
 	downloadToken: string;
 	flags?: string;
+	/**
+	 * Per-instance hash that PhotoPrism uses to namespace its own
+	 * `localStorage` entries (e.g. `pp:<namespace>:session.token`). The
+	 * OIDC redirect HTML drops the issued session under this prefix; we
+	 * read it back to adopt the SSO identity into the SPA store.
+	 */
+	storageNamespace?: string;
 	/**
 	 * Precomputed library counters. PhotoPrism updates these incrementally
 	 * on every mutation, so they're cheap to read and accurate without a
diff --git a/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte b/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte
index 086d220..a7ea595 100644
--- a/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte
+++ b/web/src/routes/+layout.svelte
@@ -19,21 +19,22 @@
 	let { children } = $props();
 
 	// Bootstrap state: the OIDC return drops the user back on `/` with
-	// PhotoPrism's auth_token/auth_session cookies set, but the SPA store
-	// is empty. We try to adopt the cookie session on first mount before
-	// the auth guard can punt to /login.
+	// PhotoPrism's session info written to localStorage under
+	// `pp:<storageNamespace>:session.*`, but the SPA store is empty. We
+	// try to adopt that session on first mount before the auth guard
+	// can punt to /login.
 	let bootstrapped = $state(false);
 
 	onMount(async () => {
 		if (!isAuthenticated()) {
-			await bootstrapSessionFromCookies();
+			await bootstrapSessionFromPhotoPrism();
 		}
 		bootstrapped = true;
 	});
 
 	// Auth guard. Anything outside /login requires a session; otherwise
 	// punt to the login page (which itself redirects authenticated users
-	// back to /). Held until the cookie bootstrap has had a chance to run.
+	// back to /). Held until the bootstrap pass has had a chance to run.
 	$effect(() => {
 		if (!browser || !bootstrapped) return;
 		const onLogin = page.url.pathname === '/login';