diff --git a/apps/client/src/views/teleprompter/Teleprompter.tsx b/apps/client/src/views/teleprompter/Teleprompter.tsx
index d2d000d87..8870a3a3d 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/views/teleprompter/Teleprompter.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/views/teleprompter/Teleprompter.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { OntimeView } from 'ontime-types';
-import { type CSSProperties, useState } from 'react';
+import { type CSSProperties, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 
 import EmptyPage from '../../common/components/state/EmptyPage';
 import ViewParamsEditor from '../../common/components/view-params-editor/ViewParamsEditor';
@@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ function Teleprompter({ rundown, rundownMetadata, customFields }: TeleprompterDa
   const [flipV, setFlipV] = useState(options.flipV);
   const [showHelp, setShowHelp] = useState(false);
 
+  /**
+   * The flip params seed the local state, which the F key then owns.
+   * Without this the params would only ever apply on mount, so changing them in
+   * the view options, or from another device by redirecting this client to the
+   * same view with a different query, would silently do nothing.
+   * The speed option is kept live the same way, inside useTeleprompterScroll.
+   */
+  useEffect(() => setFlipH(options.flipH), [options.flipH]);
+  useEffect(() => setFlipV(options.flipV), [options.flipV]);
+
   const viewOptions = getTeleprompterOptions(customFields);
 
   const blocks = buildScript(rundown, rundownMetadata, customFields, {