diff --git a/src/screens/settings/Settings.test.tsx b/src/screens/settings/Settings.test.tsx
index 1813d4c..3f8b0b7 100644
--- a/src/screens/settings/Settings.test.tsx
+++ b/src/screens/settings/Settings.test.tsx
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ describe('Settings: action bar', () => {
   })
 
   /*
- With a timeout of its own, and not on a whim: this test does THIRTEEN `userEvent`
+ With a timeout of its own (60 s: the CI runner is several times slower than a laptop), and not on a whim: this test does THIRTEEN `userEvent`
  interactions (it opens the dialog and unticks the twelve checkboxes), and each one
  goes through `act()`. On its own the whole file takes 5.9 s against a five-second
  per-test cap, so this one lived right on the edge: it passed or not depending on
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ describe('Settings: action bar', () => {
  behaved exactly the same. It is not sped up here because the thirteen interactions are the scenario
  ("a backup with nothing ticked"), and trimming them would be testing something else.
   */
-  it('a backup with nothing checked alerts with the literal text', { timeout: 15000 }, async () => {
+  it('a backup with nothing checked alerts with the literal text', { timeout: 60000 }, async () => {
     server()
     await mount()
     await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Backup Settings' }))