diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/NotificationSystem.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/NotificationSystem.tsx
index 106d2679..fbc42e0e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/NotificationSystem.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/NotificationSystem.tsx
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ interface NotificationSystemProps {
   onDismiss: () => void;
   /** Auto-dismiss timeout in milliseconds (default: 3000ms, 0 to disable) */
   autoDismissMs?: number;
+  /**
+   * Drop the toast clear of a full-width 48px bar pinned to the top of the
+   * viewport. Set it while such a bar is up — the localize object editor and
+   * the add-object overlay both raise one, and both end it with a close
+   * button on the same right edge the toast anchors to.
+   */
+  belowTopBar?: boolean;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -68,6 +75,7 @@ export const NotificationSystem: React.FC<NotificationSystemProps> = ({
   toastType,
   onDismiss,
   autoDismissMs = 3000,
+  belowTopBar = false,
 }) => {
   // Auto-dismiss logic
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -86,7 +94,11 @@ export const NotificationSystem: React.FC<NotificationSystemProps> = ({
 
   return (
     <div
-      className={`fixed top-4 right-4 z-50 transition-all duration-300 ease-in-out transform ${
+      // top-16 clears a 48px top bar with the same 16px of air top-4 leaves
+      // against the viewport edge. It is not the default because the pages
+      // that raise such a bar only raise it some of the time, and 64px is
+      // where their own content — the localize rail's header button — starts.
+      className={`fixed ${belowTopBar ? 'top-16' : 'top-4'} right-4 z-50 transition-all duration-300 ease-in-out transform ${
         showToast ? 'translate-x-0 opacity-100' : 'translate-x-full opacity-0'
       }`}
     >
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.tsx
index 9df0b8ee..8afbf3f9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.tsx
@@ -2498,6 +2498,11 @@ export default function LocalizeAlertPage({ mode }: LocalizeAlertPageProps = {})
         toastMessage={toastMessage}
         toastType={toastType}
         onDismiss={dismissToast}
+        // Both full-screen overlays fill the top 48px of the viewport with
+        // their own bar, close button included; the toast has to clear it.
+        // With neither up it stays high, where it covers only the page
+        // header's progress badge rather than the rail's FP toggle.
+        belowTopBar={modalContext !== null || addObjectOpen}
       />
 
       {showShortcutsModal && (
diff --git a/frontend/tests/components/ui/NotificationSystem.test.tsx b/frontend/tests/components/ui/NotificationSystem.test.tsx
index c55d1f3d..ce7d001d 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/components/ui/NotificationSystem.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/tests/components/ui/NotificationSystem.test.tsx
@@ -191,9 +191,26 @@ describe('NotificationSystem', () => {
     expect(screen.getByText(longMessage)).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
+  it('should sit high by default', () => {
+    const { container } = render(<NotificationSystem {...defaultProps} />);
+
+    expect(container.querySelector('.fixed.right-4')).toHaveClass('top-4');
+    expect(container.querySelector('.top-16')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('should clear a full-width top bar when asked', () => {
+    // top-16 (64px) clears the 48px bar the localize object editor and the
+    // add-object overlay each pin to the top of the viewport — a bar whose
+    // close button sits at the same right edge the toast does.
+    const { container } = render(<NotificationSystem {...defaultProps} belowTopBar />);
+
+    expect(container.querySelector('.fixed.right-4')).toHaveClass('top-16');
+    expect(container.querySelector('.top-4')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
   it('should apply correct transition classes', () => {
     const { container } = render(<NotificationSystem {...defaultProps} />);
-    
+
     const notificationDiv = container.querySelector('.fixed.top-4.right-4');
     expect(notificationDiv).toHaveClass(
       'transition-all',
diff --git a/frontend/tests/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.test.tsx b/frontend/tests/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.test.tsx
index ef2761cd..acae139e 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/tests/pages/LocalizeAlertPage.test.tsx
@@ -860,6 +860,40 @@ describe('LocalizeAlertPage', () => {
     expect(screen.queryByText('Frame saved')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
+  it('drops the toast below the editor bar while the editor is open, and only then', async () => {
+    // The editor's own 48px bar ends with its close button on the right edge
+    // the toast anchors to; with no editor up, that height belongs to the
+    // rail's header button instead.
+    vi.mocked(apiClient.createDetectionAnnotation).mockRejectedValue(new Error('boom'));
+    await renderAndSettle(<LocalizeAlertPage />, {
+      wrapper: makeWrapper(`${ROUTES.LOCALIZE}/101/object/101/1001`),
+    });
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByTestId('image-modal')).toBeInTheDocument());
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText('Mock Submit'));
+
+    const toast = (await screen.findByText(/failed to save frame/i)).closest('.fixed')!;
+    expect(toast).toHaveClass('top-16');
+    expect(toast).not.toHaveClass('top-4');
+  });
+
+  it('keeps the toast high when no overlay owns the top of the viewport', async () => {
+    vi.mocked(apiClient.bulkUpsertDetectionAnnotations).mockRejectedValue(new Error('boom'));
+    await renderAndSettle(<LocalizeAlertPage />, { wrapper });
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Object 2' }));
+    fireEvent.click(
+      within(screen.getByTestId('localize-active-object-actions')).getByRole('button', {
+        name: "Accept Object 2's boxes",
+      })
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByTestId('accept-remaining-confirm'));
+
+    const toast = (await screen.findByText(/failed to accept boxes/i)).closest('.fixed')!;
+    expect(toast).toHaveClass('top-4');
+    expect(toast).not.toHaveClass('top-16');
+  });
+
   it('hands the editor the object named in the URL, not just the frame', async () => {
     await renderAndSettle(<LocalizeAlertPage />, {
       wrapper: makeWrapper(`${ROUTES.LOCALIZE}/101/object/101/1001`),