diff --git a/.changeset/use-attachment-hooks.md b/.changeset/use-attachment-hooks.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4172186774883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/use-attachment-hooks.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+'@astryxdesign/core': patch
+---
+
+[chore] Internal: the gesture hooks' attach-and-release lifecycle, `useAttachment`, moves to `hooks/` (not exported), where other hooks can use it, and `useFingerScroll` keeps its finger-scroll watch through it instead of its own copy of that lifecycle. The gesture-sync helpers stay in `gestures/gestureSync.ts`. No behavior changes.
+
+@vjeux
diff --git a/packages/core/src/gestures/__tests__/useFingerScroll.test.tsx b/packages/core/src/gestures/__tests__/useFingerScroll.test.tsx
index deff82ea60586..ea484425d0d02 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/gestures/__tests__/useFingerScroll.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/core/src/gestures/__tests__/useFingerScroll.test.tsx
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@
  *   document's gesture host
  * @output A finger's scroll reads true until the scroller's scrollend; a
  *   scroll with no finger down reads false; the page's own scroll through
- *   the document; the watch follows the ref's node and ends on unmount
+ *   the document; the watch follows the ref's node and ends on unmount, and
+ *   lets go of a node it stops following
  * @position Unit tests of packages/core/src/gestures/useFingerScroll.ts
  */
 
 import {render} from '@testing-library/react';
 import {useRef} from 'react';
 import {afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it} from 'vitest';
+import {isFingerScroll} from '../fingerScroll';
 import {getGestureHost} from '../GestureHost';
 import {useFingerScroll} from '../useFingerScroll';
 import {coarsePrimaryPointer} from './pointerQuery';
@@ -41,6 +43,34 @@ function List({other = false}: {other?: boolean}) {
   );
 }
 
+/** A scroller the test keeps in the page while the hook moves off it. */
+function scroller(): {element: HTMLElement; row: HTMLElement} {
+  const element = document.createElement('div');
+  const row = document.createElement('p');
+  element.append(row);
+  document.body.append(element);
+  return {element, row};
+}
+
+/** A finger scrolling `element` from `row`, left resting. */
+function fingerScroll(element: Element, row: Element): void {
+  touch('touchstart', row, true);
+  element.dispatchEvent(new Event('scroll'));
+}
+
+/** The finger lifted and the scroll ended. */
+function lift(element: Element, row: Element): void {
+  touch('touchend', row, false);
+  element.dispatchEvent(new Event('scrollend'));
+}
+
+const followed: {current: Element | null} = {current: null};
+
+function Follower() {
+  read = useFingerScroll(followed);
+  return null;
+}
+
 function Page() {
   read = useFingerScroll(document);
   return <p data-testid="row">row</p>;
@@ -119,4 +149,39 @@ describe('useFingerScroll', () => {
     unmount();
     expect(reader()).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  it('lets go of the node it stops following, and of its last one at unmount', () => {
+    const first = scroller();
+    const second = scroller();
+    const host = getGestureHost(document);
+    try {
+      followed.current = first.element;
+      const {rerender, unmount} = render(<Follower />);
+      fingerScroll(first.element, first.row);
+      expect(read()).toBe(true);
+      lift(first.element, first.row);
+
+      followed.current = second.element;
+      rerender(<Follower />);
+      // The first scroller is no longer watched: its finger scroll counts
+      // for nothing.
+      fingerScroll(first.element, first.row);
+      expect(isFingerScroll(host, first.element)).toBe(false);
+      lift(first.element, first.row);
+      fingerScroll(second.element, second.row);
+      expect(read()).toBe(true);
+      lift(second.element, second.row);
+
+      const reader = read;
+      unmount();
+      fingerScroll(second.element, second.row);
+      expect(isFingerScroll(host, second.element)).toBe(false);
+      expect(reader()).toBe(false);
+      lift(second.element, second.row);
+    } finally {
+      followed.current = null;
+      first.element.remove();
+      second.element.remove();
+    }
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/core/src/gestures/useAttachment.ts b/packages/core/src/gestures/gestureSync.ts
similarity index 52%
rename from packages/core/src/gestures/useAttachment.ts
rename to packages/core/src/gestures/gestureSync.ts
index d467687efc348..4f1526685e22b 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/gestures/useAttachment.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/gestures/gestureSync.ts
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@
 'use client';
 
 /**
- * @file useAttachment.ts
- * @input An element ref, an attach function and a key
- * @output Exports useAttachment, useIsUnmountedRef, and the gesture-sync
- *   depth (syncingGestures, isSyncingGestures) both hooks read
- * @position Internal React helpers shared by useGestureRecognizer and
+ * @file gestureSync.ts
+ * @input Nothing: module state and a React ref
+ * @output Exports useIsUnmountedRef, and the gesture-sync depth
+ *   (syncingGestures, isSyncingGestures) the gesture hooks read
+ * @position Internal helpers shared by useGestureRecognizer and
  *   usePressTracker, so each hook imports only what it uses
  *
- * SYNC: When modified, update useGestureRecognizer.test.tsx.
+ * SYNC: When modified, update __tests__/useGestureRecognizer.test.tsx.
  */
 
-import {useRef, type RefObject} from 'react';
+import {useRef} from 'react';
 import {useIsomorphicLayoutEffect} from '../hooks/useIsomorphicLayoutEffect';
 
 /**
@@ -58,42 +58,3 @@ export function useIsUnmountedRef(): {readonly current: boolean} {
   }, []);
   return isUnmountedRef;
 }
-
-/**
- * Keep `attach` bound to the element `ref` holds after each commit. A
- * replaced node is released and the new one attached, a changed `key`
- * re-attaches, and the last attachment is released on unmount; a commit that
- * changes neither does nothing (react-component-runtime INV3).
- */
-export function useAttachment(
-  ref: RefObject<Element | null>,
-  attach: (element: Element) => () => void,
-  key: unknown,
-): void {
-  const attachmentRef = useRef<{
-    element: Element;
-    key: unknown;
-    release: () => void;
-  } | null>(null);
-
-  // Syncs the attachment with the DOM node `ref` holds after this commit.
-  useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(() => {
-    const element = ref.current;
-    const current = attachmentRef.current;
-    if (current?.element === element && current?.key === key) {
-      return;
-    }
-    current?.release();
-    attachmentRef.current =
-      element == null ? null : {element, key, release: attach(element)};
-  });
-
-  // Releases the attachment at unmount.
-  useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(
-    () => () => {
-      attachmentRef.current?.release();
-      attachmentRef.current = null;
-    },
-    [],
-  );
-}
diff --git a/packages/core/src/gestures/useFingerScroll.ts b/packages/core/src/gestures/useFingerScroll.ts
index 2ce09e2aa82e6..51224e7f89e3e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/gestures/useFingerScroll.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/gestures/useFingerScroll.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
  * @output useFingerScroll: whether the scroller's current scroll is a
  *   finger's, read at any moment
  * @position Gesture hook of packages/core/src/gestures, over the
- *   finger-scroll watch (fingerScroll.ts). An internal piece of the touch
+ *   finger-scroll watch (fingerScroll.ts), kept on the scroller's node by
+ *   the gesture hooks' shared attachment (hooks/useAttachment.ts). An internal
+ *   piece of the touch
  *   module with no public API, not in the gestures barrel: a scroll-driven
  *   component (a tab bar that minimizes, a header that collapses, a picker
  *   that commits at rest) imports it from here, so it ships only where used
@@ -28,14 +30,19 @@
  */
 
 import {useCallback, useRef, type RefObject} from 'react';
-import {useIsomorphicLayoutEffect} from '../hooks/useIsomorphicLayoutEffect';
 import {isFingerScroll, watchFingerScrolls} from './fingerScroll';
 import {getGestureHost} from './GestureHost';
+import {useAttachment} from '../hooks/useAttachment';
 
 function isDocument(value: unknown): value is Document {
   return typeof Document !== 'undefined' && value instanceof Document;
 }
 
+/** The document a scroller is in: itself, for the page's own scroll. */
+function documentOf(node: Element | Document): Document {
+  return isDocument(node) ? node : node.ownerDocument;
+}
+
 /**
  * Watch a scroller's finger scrolls. Pass a ref to a scrolling element, or
  * the document for the page's own scroll. Returns a reader, stable across
@@ -45,41 +52,27 @@ function isDocument(value: unknown): value is Document {
 export function useFingerScroll(
   scroller: RefObject<Element | null> | Document,
 ): () => boolean {
-  const attachedRef = useRef<{node: Node; detach: () => void} | null>(null);
-  // Follows the node on every commit: a ref that now points at another
-  // element moves the watch to it.
-  useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(() => {
-    const node = isDocument(scroller) ? scroller : scroller.current;
-    if (attachedRef.current?.node === node) {
-      return;
-    }
-    attachedRef.current?.detach();
-    attachedRef.current =
-      node == null
-        ? null
-        : {
-            node,
-            detach: watchFingerScrolls(
-              getGestureHost(isDocument(node) ? node : node.ownerDocument),
-              node,
-            ),
-          };
-  });
-  // Synchronizes with the gesture host's finger-scroll watch: unmounting
-  // releases the watch this hook attached.
-  useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(
-    () => () => {
-      attachedRef.current?.detach();
-      attachedRef.current = null;
+  /** The node the watch is on now, for the reader. */
+  const watchedRef = useRef<Element | Document | null>(null);
+  // Keeps the finger-scroll watch on the node the scroller names after each
+  // commit (useAttachment): a ref that now points at another element moves
+  // the watch to it, and unmounting releases it.
+  useAttachment<Element | Document>(
+    isDocument(scroller) ? {current: scroller} : scroller,
+    node => {
+      watchedRef.current = node;
+      const stop = watchFingerScrolls(getGestureHost(documentOf(node)), node);
+      return () => {
+        stop();
+        watchedRef.current = null;
+      };
     },
-    [],
+    null,
   );
   return useCallback(() => {
-    const node = attachedRef.current?.node;
-    if (node == null) {
-      return false;
-    }
-    const doc = isDocument(node) ? node : node.ownerDocument;
-    return doc != null && isFingerScroll(getGestureHost(doc), node);
+    const node = watchedRef.current;
+    return (
+      node != null && isFingerScroll(getGestureHost(documentOf(node)), node)
+    );
   }, []);
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/src/gestures/useGestureRecognizer.ts b/packages/core/src/gestures/useGestureRecognizer.ts
index 046fc7af1bc92..76b6d51e6e11a 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/gestures/useGestureRecognizer.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/gestures/useGestureRecognizer.ts
@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ import {useEffect, useRef, useState, type RefObject} from 'react';
 import {useIsomorphicLayoutEffect} from '../hooks/useIsomorphicLayoutEffect';
 import {getGestureHost} from './GestureHost';
 import type {GestureRecognizer} from './GestureRecognizer';
+import {useAttachment} from '../hooks/useAttachment';
 import {
   isSyncingGestures,
   syncingGestures,
-  useAttachment,
   useIsUnmountedRef,
-} from './useAttachment';
+} from './gestureSync';
 import {internals} from './recognizerInternals';
 
 export interface UseGestureRecognizerOptions {
diff --git a/packages/core/src/gestures/usePressTracker.ts b/packages/core/src/gestures/usePressTracker.ts
index 05bbdbdb29ece..94f8250fcb64c 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/gestures/usePressTracker.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/gestures/usePressTracker.ts
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ import {
   type PressTracker,
   type PressTrackerOptions,
 } from './PressTracker';
+import {useAttachment} from '../hooks/useAttachment';
 import {
   isSyncingGestures,
   syncingGestures,
-  useAttachment,
   useIsUnmountedRef,
-} from './useAttachment';
+} from './gestureSync';
 
 export type UsePressTrackerOptions = Omit<
   PressTrackerOptions,
diff --git a/packages/core/src/hooks/useAttachment.ts b/packages/core/src/hooks/useAttachment.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9bfe67fa64c79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/src/hooks/useAttachment.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+
+'use client';
+
+/**
+ * @file useAttachment.ts
+ * @input A node ref (an element's, or the document's), an attach function
+ *   and a key
+ * @output Exports useAttachment: keeps the attach function bound to the node
+ *   the ref holds across commits
+ * @position Internal React helper, not in hooks/index.ts: the one attach
+ *   and release lifecycle of the gesture hooks (useGestureRecognizer,
+ *   usePressTracker, useFingerScroll)
+ *
+ * SYNC: When modified, update gestures/__tests__/useGestureRecognizer.test.tsx
+ * and gestures/__tests__/useFingerScroll.test.tsx.
+ */
+
+import {useRef, type RefObject} from 'react';
+import {useIsomorphicLayoutEffect} from './useIsomorphicLayoutEffect';
+
+/**
+ * Keep `attach` bound to the node `ref` holds after each commit: an element,
+ * or the document. A replaced node is released and the new one attached, a
+ * changed `key` re-attaches, and the last attachment is released on unmount;
+ * a commit that changes neither does nothing (react-component-runtime INV3).
+ */
+export function useAttachment<T extends Node = Element>(
+  ref: RefObject<T | null>,
+  attach: (element: T) => () => void,
+  key: unknown,
+): void {
+  const attachmentRef = useRef<{
+    element: T;
+    key: unknown;
+    release: () => void;
+  } | null>(null);
+
+  // Syncs the attachment with the DOM node `ref` holds after this commit.
+  useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(() => {
+    const element = ref.current;
+    const current = attachmentRef.current;
+    if (current?.element === element && current?.key === key) {
+      return;
+    }
+    current?.release();
+    attachmentRef.current =
+      element == null ? null : {element, key, release: attach(element)};
+  });
+
+  // Releases the attachment at unmount.
+  useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(
+    () => () => {
+      attachmentRef.current?.release();
+      attachmentRef.current = null;
+    },
+    [],
+  );
+}