diff --git a/docs/guide/auth.md b/docs/guide/auth.md
index 40617b404..2e16fa3af 100644
--- a/docs/guide/auth.md
+++ b/docs/guide/auth.md
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ Auth sessions use the same database as your app. Void creates `BETTER_AUTH_SECRE
 
 Local development needs no secret setup. To preview a production build locally, provide `BETTER_AUTH_SECRET`.
 
+Responses to signed-in requests get `Cache-Control: no-store`, so neither the browser cache nor a shared cache keeps a user's data. A route keeps its own policy when it sets `no-store`, or `private` together with `no-cache`. To answer repeat requests with `304`, use `private, no-cache` with Hono's [`etag()`](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/etag) middleware. If you set the `ETag` yourself, make it differ per user, so the `304` doesn't reuse another account's page. The browser cache keeps a copy of a `private, no-cache` page, so the Back button can show it again after the user signs out. Keep the default `no-store` for pages that must not stay in the browser cache.
+
 `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH` and `DELETE` requests and WebSocket connections from another origin don't use the signed-in session unless that origin is in `trustedOrigins`. If a separate frontend calls your app, add its origin there (see [Customization](#customization)). If your routes use their own cookies, check the request `Origin` yourself, for example with Hono's [`csrf()`](https://hono.dev/docs/middleware/builtin/csrf) middleware.
 
 Deployed apps on Cloudflare limit auth requests per client IP with Better Auth's defaults, for example 3 sign-in attempts per 10 seconds. Each Worker instance keeps its own count. Change or turn off the limits with `rateLimit` in `auth.ts`. To share one count across instances, set `rateLimit: { storage: 'database' }`, then run `void db generate` for a direct Cloudflare deploy.
diff --git a/packages/void/src/runtime/better-auth-shared.ts b/packages/void/src/runtime/better-auth-shared.ts
index 5b2f198e4..9ad55adc7 100644
--- a/packages/void/src/runtime/better-auth-shared.ts
+++ b/packages/void/src/runtime/better-auth-shared.ts
@@ -215,28 +215,48 @@ function appendAuthHeaders(
     return;
   }
 
+  // `no-store`, or `private` with `no-cache`, keeps the response out of shared
+  // caches and makes the browser ask before reusing it, which allows ETag + 304
+  // (the ETag must differ per user). `private` alone lets the browser show the
+  // response to the next account that signs in.
+  const routeDirectives = bareCacheDirectives(c.res.headers.get('cache-control'));
+  const keepRoutePolicy =
+    routeDirectives.has('no-store') ||
+    (routeDirectives.has('private') && routeDirectives.has('no-cache'));
   source.forEach((value, key) => {
     // getSession's response policy belongs to the session endpoint. An anonymous
     // lookup must not make the application's public page or asset uncacheable.
-    if (!includeCachePolicy && ['cache-control', 'pragma'].includes(key.toLowerCase())) {
+    if (
+      (!includeCachePolicy || keepRoutePolicy) &&
+      ['cache-control', 'pragma'].includes(key.toLowerCase())
+    ) {
       return;
     }
     c.header(key, value, {
       append: key.toLowerCase() === 'set-cookie',
     });
   });
+  const sessionDirectives = bareCacheDirectives(source.get('cache-control'));
   if (
     source.has('set-cookie') &&
-    !(source.get('cache-control') ?? '')
-      .split(',')
-      .some((directive) =>
-        ['private', 'no-store', 'no-cache'].includes(directive.trim().toLowerCase()),
-      )
+    !keepRoutePolicy &&
+    !['private', 'no-store', 'no-cache'].some((directive) => sessionDirectives.has(directive))
   ) {
     c.header('Cache-Control', 'private, no-store');
   }
 }
 
+// Lowercased Cache-Control directive names that carry no value. Commas inside a
+// quoted value do not split directives, so `no-cache="a,private"` has no `private`.
+function bareCacheDirectives(policy: string | null): Set<string> {
+  const directives = (policy ?? '').match(/(?:[^",]|"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"?)+/g) ?? [];
+  return new Set(
+    directives
+      .map((directive) => directive.trim().toLowerCase())
+      .filter((directive) => !directive.includes('=')),
+  );
+}
+
 function resolveUserConfig(
   userConfig: VoidAuthConfig | undefined,
   defaults: BetterAuthOptions,
diff --git a/packages/void/test/integration/auth-isr-cache-policy.test.ts b/packages/void/test/integration/auth-isr-cache-policy.test.ts
index f599ebb6e..db4de051b 100644
--- a/packages/void/test/integration/auth-isr-cache-policy.test.ts
+++ b/packages/void/test/integration/auth-isr-cache-policy.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { handleIsr, type IsrCacheEnv } from '@void/isr/runtime';
 import { memoryAdapter } from 'better-auth/adapters/memory';
 import { Hono } from 'hono';
+import { etag } from 'hono/etag';
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vite-plus/test';
 import { createVoidAuthRuntime } from '../../src/runtime/better-auth-shared.ts';
 
@@ -91,3 +92,100 @@ describe('real anonymous Better Auth lookup cache policy', () => {
     await expect(response.json()).resolves.toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+describe('real authenticated Better Auth session cache policy', () => {
+  async function signedInApp(routeHeaders: Record<string, string>, { withEtag = false } = {}) {
+    const database = memoryAdapter({ user: [], session: [], account: [], verification: [] });
+    const runtime = createVoidAuthRuntime('sqlite', async () => {});
+    const app = new Hono();
+    app.use(async (c, next) => runtime.runVoidAuthMiddleware(c, next, options, database));
+    app.on(['GET', 'POST'], '/api/auth/*', (c) =>
+      runtime.handleVoidAuthRequest(c, options, database),
+    );
+    if (withEtag) {
+      app.use('/api/report', etag());
+    }
+    app.get('/api/report', (c) => c.text('report', 200, routeHeaders));
+    const signUp = await app.request(
+      'https://app.test/api/auth/sign-up/email',
+      {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+        body: JSON.stringify({
+          name: 'Cache user',
+          email: 'cache-user@example.test',
+          password: 'correct-horse-battery-staple',
+        }),
+      },
+      env,
+    );
+    expect(signUp.status).toBe(200);
+    const cookie = signUp.headers
+      .getSetCookie()
+      .map((value) => value.split(';')[0])
+      .join('; ');
+    const session = await app.request(
+      'https://app.test/api/auth/get-session',
+      { headers: { cookie } },
+      env,
+    );
+    await expect(session.json()).resolves.toMatchObject({
+      user: { email: 'cache-user@example.test' },
+    });
+    return { app, cookie };
+  }
+
+  it.each(['private, no-cache', 'no-store', 'Private, No-Cache, max-age=60', 'private,\tno-cache'])(
+    'keeps a no-store or private, no-cache route policy: %s',
+    async (policy) => {
+      const { app, cookie } = await signedInApp({ 'cache-control': policy, etag: 'W/"report-1"' });
+      const response = await app.request(
+        'https://app.test/api/report',
+        { headers: { cookie } },
+        env,
+      );
+      expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(response.headers.get('cache-control')).toBe(policy);
+      expect(response.headers.has('pragma')).toBe(false);
+      expect(response.headers.get('etag')).toBe('W/"report-1"');
+    },
+  );
+
+  it.each([
+    null,
+    'public, max-age=60',
+    'no-cache',
+    'private="set-cookie", max-age=60',
+    'private',
+    'private, max-age=60',
+    'private, no-cache="set-cookie"',
+    'no-cache="x,private,y", public, max-age=600',
+    'no-cache="x,no-store,y", public, max-age=600',
+    'no-cache="a\\",no-store,b", public, max-age=600',
+  ])('applies the session lookup no-store to a route policy of %s', async (policy) => {
+    const { app, cookie } = await signedInApp(policy ? { 'cache-control': policy } : {});
+    const response = await app.request('https://app.test/api/report', { headers: { cookie } }, env);
+    expect(response.headers.get('cache-control')).toBe('no-store');
+    expect(response.headers.get('pragma')).toBe('no-cache');
+  });
+
+  it('answers a signed-in repeat request with 304 through etag()', async () => {
+    const { app, cookie } = await signedInApp(
+      { 'cache-control': 'private, no-cache' },
+      { withEtag: true },
+    );
+    const first = await app.request('https://app.test/api/report', { headers: { cookie } }, env);
+    expect(first.status).toBe(200);
+    const tag = first.headers.get('etag');
+    expect(tag).toBeTruthy();
+    const repeat = await app.request(
+      'https://app.test/api/report',
+      { headers: { cookie, 'if-none-match': tag! } },
+      env,
+    );
+    expect(repeat.status).toBe(304);
+    expect(repeat.headers.get('cache-control')).toBe('private, no-cache');
+    expect(repeat.headers.has('pragma')).toBe(false);
+    expect(repeat.headers.get('etag')).toBe(tag);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/void/test/unit/auth-middleware.test.ts b/packages/void/test/unit/auth-middleware.test.ts
index 70904fc37..50ed51642 100644
--- a/packages/void/test/unit/auth-middleware.test.ts
+++ b/packages/void/test/unit/auth-middleware.test.ts
@@ -173,6 +173,43 @@ describe('runVoidAuthMiddleware response headers', () => {
     expect(response.headers.get('cache-control')).toBe('private, no-store');
     expect(response.headers.getSetCookie()).toEqual(['session=rotated; Path=/; HttpOnly']);
   });
+
+  it.each([
+    ['without its own cache policy', new Headers()],
+    ['with a no-store policy', new Headers({ 'cache-control': 'no-store', pragma: 'no-cache' })],
+  ])(
+    'keeps a private, no-cache route policy through a cookie rotation %s',
+    async (_label, authHeaders) => {
+      authHeaders.append('set-cookie', 'session=rotated; Path=/; HttpOnly');
+      const app = createApp({ response: null, headers: authHeaders });
+      app.get('/refresh', (c) =>
+        c.text('content', 200, { 'cache-control': 'private, no-cache', etag: 'W/"v1"' }),
+      );
+      const response = await app.request(
+        'http://localhost/refresh',
+        { headers: { cookie: 'session=current' } },
+        { BETTER_AUTH_SECRET: 'test-secret' },
+      );
+      expect(response.headers.get('cache-control')).toBe('private, no-cache');
+      expect(response.headers.has('pragma')).toBe(false);
+      expect(response.headers.getSetCookie()).toEqual(['session=rotated; Path=/; HttpOnly']);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('does not let a cookie rotation keep a private route policy the browser may reuse', async () => {
+    const app = createApp({
+      response: null,
+      headers: new Headers({ 'set-cookie': 'session=rotated; Path=/; HttpOnly' }),
+    });
+    app.get('/refresh', (c) => c.text('content', 200, { 'cache-control': 'private, max-age=60' }));
+    const response = await app.request(
+      'http://localhost/refresh',
+      { headers: { cookie: 'session=current' } },
+      { BETTER_AUTH_SECRET: 'test-secret' },
+    );
+    expect(response.headers.get('cache-control')).toBe('private, no-store');
+    expect(response.headers.getSetCookie()).toEqual(['session=rotated; Path=/; HttpOnly']);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('cross-origin cookie sessions', () => {