diff --git a/apps/studio/src/ui/StudioWorkspace.test.tsx b/apps/studio/src/ui/StudioWorkspace.test.tsx
index 7524f928..a42c9b9d 100644
--- a/apps/studio/src/ui/StudioWorkspace.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/studio/src/ui/StudioWorkspace.test.tsx
@@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ describe("StudioWorkspace", () => {
       expect(status.getByText("Draft saved")).toBeInTheDocument();
       fireEvent.input(title, { target: { value: "Pods!" } });
       expect(status.getByText("Saving the draft…")).toBeInTheDocument();
-      expect(await status.findByText("Draft saved", {}, { timeout: 3000 })).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(await status.findByText("Draft saved")).toBeInTheDocument();
       expect(useCases.editReleaseDraft).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
     });
 
@@ -1666,9 +1666,7 @@ describe("StudioWorkspace", () => {
       const title = await screen.findByRole("textbox", { name: "Title" });
       await waitFor(() => expect(title).toBeEnabled());
       fireEvent.input(title, { target: { value: "Pods!" } });
-      expect(
-        await status.findByText("Last change not saved", {}, { timeout: 3000 }),
-      ).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(await status.findByText("Last change not saved")).toBeInTheDocument();
     });
 
     it("keeps the cards' view in the URL, replacing the entry", async () => {
diff --git a/docs/testing.md b/docs/testing.md
index 35f28a79..92b62f42 100644
--- a/docs/testing.md
+++ b/docs/testing.md
@@ -1265,7 +1265,12 @@ runs every package's tests at once with coverage on, and takes some
 tests fifty times as long as a laptop does: the generator's check of
 `ns/` took over 5 s there, against 0.1 s. Tests that read a file at the
 size limits, about a second on a laptop, ran out of 30 s on a slow
-runner. A test that hangs still fails.
+runner. A test that hangs still fails. For the same reason, a
+Testing Library query that waits (`findBy…`, `waitFor`) waits 10 s,
+not its 1 s. The setting is in `packages/ui/src/test/setup.ts`, which
+the Studio's and the web app's setup import. A screen whose button came
+after a few reads of its data, about 0.1 s on a laptop, ran out of 1 s
+in CI.
 
 ## Strategy per layer
 
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/test/setup.ts b/packages/ui/src/test/setup.ts
index dce584c2..6662ae4d 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/test/setup.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/test/setup.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
 import "@testing-library/jest-dom/vitest";
+import { configure } from "@testing-library/preact";
 import { LOCALES } from "@solid-memo/domain/locale";
 import { loadLocale } from "../ui/i18n";
 
@@ -10,6 +11,14 @@ import { loadLocale } from "../ui/i18n";
 // before it renders (apps/web/src/main.tsx), so a test speaks any of them.
 await Promise.all(LOCALES.map(loadLocale));
 
+// A findBy query or waitFor waits 10 s, not Testing Library's 1 s, for
+// what it waits for, as a test may take 60 s, not vitest's 5
+// (vitest.shared.ts): CI takes some tests fifty times as long as a
+// laptop does, and a screen that reads its data in a few steps, about
+// 0.1 s on a laptop, ran out of the 1 s there. A query that never
+// matches still fails, later.
+configure({ asyncUtilTimeout: 10_000 });
+
 // happy-dom has no HTMLElement.translate. Browsers reflect it as the
 // translate="yes"/"no" attribute, which Preact sets as a property
 // (`translate={false}` on code from data), so the tests see the same.