diff --git a/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/GoogleMeshUtilApplication.kt b/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/GoogleMeshUtilApplication.kt
index 9e9970235..b3eaef210 100644
--- a/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/GoogleMeshUtilApplication.kt
+++ b/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/GoogleMeshUtilApplication.kt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package org.meshtastic.app
 
 import androidx.appfunctions.service.AppFunctionConfiguration
 import org.koin.java.KoinJavaComponent.getKoin
+import org.meshtastic.app.ai.appfunctions.AppFunctionStateSync
 import org.meshtastic.app.ai.appfunctions.MeshtasticAppFunctions
 
 /**
@@ -30,6 +31,14 @@ class GoogleMeshUtilApplication :
     MeshUtilApplication(),
     AppFunctionConfiguration.Provider {
 
+    override fun onCreate() {
+        super.onCreate()
+        // Start the AppFunctions enabled-state sync. Resolved here (after startKoin has bound
+        // androidContext) rather than via createdAtStart so that Koin graphs built outside a
+        // running app — verification tests, previews — stay lazily constructible.
+        getKoin().get<AppFunctionStateSync>()
+    }
+
     override val appFunctionConfiguration: AppFunctionConfiguration
         get() =
             AppFunctionConfiguration.Builder()
diff --git a/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/di/AppFunctionsModule.kt b/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/di/AppFunctionsModule.kt
index c632f1488..a2a8659ef 100644
--- a/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/di/AppFunctionsModule.kt
+++ b/androidApp/src/google/kotlin/org/meshtastic/app/di/AppFunctionsModule.kt
@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ class AppFunctionsModule {
     @Single
     fun meshtasticAppFunctions(provider: AiFunctionProvider): MeshtasticAppFunctions = MeshtasticAppFunctions(provider)
 
-    @Single(createdAtStart = true)
+    // NOT createdAtStart: eager creation needs the androidContext binding and spawns the sync
+    // coroutine, which breaks (and is wrong for) any Koin graph built outside a running app —
+    // e.g. KoinVerificationTest's typed-bootstrap check. GoogleMeshUtilApplication starts it
+    // explicitly at app startup instead.
+    @Single
     fun appFunctionStateSync(
         context: Context,
         prefs: AppFunctionsPrefs,