diff --git a/backend/oidc_client.py b/backend/oidc_client.py
index d45d589..6e496ce 100644
--- a/backend/oidc_client.py
+++ b/backend/oidc_client.py
@@ -208,9 +208,17 @@ def _verify_at_hash(claims, access_token: str) -> None:
 def validate_id_token(provider: OIDCProvider, id_token: str, *,
                       expected_audience: str,
                       nonce: Optional[str] = None,
+                      require_nonce: bool = False,
                       access_token: Optional[str] = None) -> dict:
     """Verify an ID token's signature and claims. Returns the claim dict.
 
+    ``nonce`` is the value the client bound into the flow. When
+    ``require_nonce`` is set the token must carry a matching one — that is the
+    browser flow, where we generated the nonce ourselves and the provider is
+    obliged to echo it. Native clients also pass a nonce, but a token they
+    renewed with a refresh token legitimately no longer carries the claim, so
+    there the check applies only if the claim is present.
+
     Raises :class:`OIDCError` with a stable slug on any failure.
     """
     issuers = accepted_issuers(provider)
@@ -225,7 +233,10 @@ def validate_id_token(provider: OIDCProvider, id_token: str, *,
                 "exp": {"essential": True},
                 "sub": {"essential": True},
             },
-            claims_params={"nonce": nonce, "client_id": expected_audience,
+            # Nonce deliberately omitted: Authlib treats "caller supplied a
+            # nonce but the token has none" as a mismatch, which breaks
+            # refreshed tokens. The policy is enforced explicitly below.
+            claims_params={"client_id": expected_audience,
                            "access_token": access_token},
         )
 
@@ -268,7 +279,10 @@ def validate_id_token(provider: OIDCProvider, id_token: str, *,
     if not claims.get("sub"):
         raise OIDCError("oidc_no_subject")
 
-    if nonce is not None and claims.get("nonce") != nonce:
+    token_nonce = claims.get("nonce")
+    if require_nonce and not token_nonce:
+        raise OIDCError("oidc_nonce_missing")
+    if nonce is not None and token_nonce is not None and token_nonce != nonce:
         raise OIDCError("oidc_nonce_mismatch")
 
     if access_token:
diff --git a/backend/routers/oidc_router.py b/backend/routers/oidc_router.py
index 722d2c7..292a92a 100644
--- a/backend/routers/oidc_router.py
+++ b/backend/routers/oidc_router.py
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ def oidc_callback(provider_key: str, request: Request,
             provider, tokens["id_token"],
             expected_audience=provider.client_id,
             nonce=payload.get("n"),
+            # We generated this nonce; the provider must echo it back.
+            require_nonce=True,
             access_token=tokens.get("access_token"),
         )
         if not claims.get("email"):
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_oidc.py b/backend/tests/test_oidc.py
index 9e2611f..551e466 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_oidc.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_oidc.py
@@ -374,6 +374,29 @@ def test_exchange_rejects_nonce_mismatch(client, authentik):
     assert r.status_code == 401
 
 
+def test_refreshed_token_without_nonce_is_accepted(client, authentik):
+    """A token renewed via the refresh token drops the nonce claim; the app
+    still sends the nonce it remembers, and that must not be a mismatch."""
+    _seed_identity(client)
+    r = exchange(client, nonce="original-nonce",
+                 id_token=make_id_token(aud=MOBILE_CLIENT, nonce=None))
+    assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+
+
+def test_browser_flow_requires_a_nonce_in_the_token(client, authentik):
+    """We generate the nonce for the browser flow, so the provider must echo
+    it — a token without one is refused there even though /exchange allows it."""
+    import oidc_config
+    from oidc_client import OIDCError
+
+    provider = oidc_config.get_provider("authentik")
+    with pytest.raises(OIDCError) as e:
+        oidc_client.validate_id_token(
+            provider, make_id_token(nonce=None),
+            expected_audience=WEB_CLIENT, nonce="expected", require_nonce=True)
+    assert e.value.slug == "oidc_nonce_missing"
+
+
 def test_exchange_requires_nonce_when_token_carries_one(client, authentik):
     _seed_identity(client)
     r = exchange(client, id_token=make_id_token(aud=MOBILE_CLIENT, nonce="from-appauth"))