diff --git a/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestConstants.swift b/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestConstants.swift
index 6cfe3d97..fb0cb65c 100644
--- a/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestConstants.swift
+++ b/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestConstants.swift
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import Foundation
 
 struct TestConstants {
     static let defaultTimeout: TimeInterval = 5.0
-    static let shortTimeout: TimeInterval = 1.0
     /// For positive waits on work that hops through `Task.detached` or
     /// background queues: those contend with every parallel test worker for
     /// the global executor, so a loaded CI runner can exceed
diff --git a/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestTimingHygieneTests.swift b/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestTimingHygieneTests.swift
index f5621e8e..c6a15147 100644
--- a/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestTimingHygieneTests.swift
+++ b/bitchatTests/TestUtilities/TestTimingHygieneTests.swift
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ struct TestTimingHygieneTests {
         // Named constants hide the same mistake behind a symbol, and did: the
         // fifth flake of the session was `timeout: TestConstants.shortTimeout`
         // (1 s) on a positive wait, which a literals-only scan cannot see.
+        // `shortTimeout` itself is deleted (Periphery flagged it dead once its
+        // last wait site converted); the ban stays so it cannot come back.
         // `negativeWaitWindow` is deliberately absent — short is correct there.
         let bannedConstants = ["shortTimeout", "defaultTimeout"]
 
diff --git a/localPackages/BitFoundation/Tests/BitFoundationTests/TestConstants.swift b/localPackages/BitFoundation/Tests/BitFoundationTests/TestConstants.swift
index 2bb3a0e8..cd0ef876 100644
--- a/localPackages/BitFoundation/Tests/BitFoundationTests/TestConstants.swift
+++ b/localPackages/BitFoundation/Tests/BitFoundationTests/TestConstants.swift
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import Foundation
 // Kept local until the test-helper module is split out.
 struct TestConstants {
     static let defaultTimeout: TimeInterval = 5.0
-    static let shortTimeout: TimeInterval = 1.0
     static let longTimeout: TimeInterval = 10.0
     
     static let testNickname1 = "Alice"