diff --git a/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts b/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts
index 49e6abf319c5..03c400598688 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.ts
@@ -566,6 +566,18 @@ export const browserTracingIntegration = ((options: Partial<BrowserTracingOption
           _pageloadSpan.end();
         }
       });
+
+      // `pagehide` is the last moment a document can still send. `registerBackgroundTabDetection`
+      // waits for `visibilitychange`, which on a same-tab navigation fires *after* `pagehide` has
+      // already frozen the page into the bfcache, so a root span ended there can never leave. Its
+      // children have been streamed all along, so missing this point produces a rootless trace.
+      WINDOW.addEventListener?.('pagehide', () => {
+        const activeSpan = getActiveIdleSpan(client);
+        if (activeSpan && !spanToJSON(activeSpan).end_timestamp) {
+          activeSpan.setAttribute(SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_IDLE_SPAN_FINISH_REASON, 'documentHidden');
+          activeSpan.end();
+        }
+      });
     },
 
     afterAllSetup(client) {
diff --git a/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts b/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts
index 5ef5172f16d4..a41ceb7bcc8c 100644
--- a/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/test/tracing/browserTracingIntegration.test.ts
@@ -770,6 +770,46 @@ describe('browserTracingIntegration', () => {
     expect(spanToJSON(pageloadSpan!).attributes[SENTRY_SEGMENT_NAME_SOURCE]).toBe('custom');
   });
 
+  describe('pagehide', () => {
+    it('ends the active idle span so its root is not stranded on a frozen page', () => {
+      // `registerBackgroundTabDetection` waits for `visibilitychange`, which on a same-tab
+      // navigation fires after `pagehide` has already frozen the document into the bfcache. A root
+      // ended there can never be sent, while its children have been streaming all along.
+      const client = new BrowserClient(
+        getDefaultBrowserClientOptions({
+          tracesSampleRate: 1,
+          integrations: [browserTracingIntegration()],
+        }),
+      );
+      setCurrentClient(client);
+      client.init();
+
+      const span = getActiveSpan()!;
+      expect(span).toBeDefined();
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).end_timestamp).toBeUndefined();
+
+      WINDOW.dispatchEvent(new Event('pagehide'));
+
+      const json = spanToJSON(span);
+      expect(json.end_timestamp).toBeDefined();
+      expect(json.attributes?.['sentry.idle_span_finish_reason']).toBe('documentHidden');
+    });
+
+    it('does nothing when there is no active idle span', () => {
+      const client = new BrowserClient(
+        getDefaultBrowserClientOptions({
+          tracesSampleRate: 1,
+          integrations: [browserTracingIntegration({ instrumentPageLoad: false })],
+        }),
+      );
+      setCurrentClient(client);
+      client.init();
+
+      expect(() => WINDOW.dispatchEvent(new Event('pagehide'))).not.toThrow();
+      expect(getActiveSpan()).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('startBrowserTracingNavigationSpan', () => {
     it('works without integration setup', () => {
       const client = new BrowserClient(