Anthropic Stabilizes Claude Code Mobile Connections

Anthropic has rolled out a major reliability update to Remote Control, a feature in Claude Code that synchronizes local terminal sessions with the Claude mobile app or web interface. Responding to developer feedback, the update addresses connection dropouts, ensuring that sessions automatically recover when users close their laptops, switch Wi-Fi networks, or move between rooms. This update makes it easier to monitor long-running agent tasks or approve tool calls away from a desk.

Developers can now initiate sessions directly from their phones using device cards displayed in the mobile app's Code tab, rather than relying solely on the command-line interface (CLI) to start a session. The update also ensures that the mobile app and CLI remain synchronized on model choices and effort levels. Additionally, mobile support for slash commands has been improved: /clear resets the phone view, /compact displays a compaction marker, and /diff opens a native diff sheet on iOS. Heavy sessions also load much faster on iOS, and stale session cards now clear within seconds when a session ends.

Because Remote Control runs locally on the user's hardware rather than Anthropic's cloud infrastructure, files, environment variables, and Model Context Protocol servers remain secure on the local machine. To use the feature, developers can run the command claude remote-control --name "My Project" in their terminal. However, some limitations remain. Extended network outages lasting roughly ten minutes will cause the server process to exit, and certain commands like /plugin and /resume still require the terminal. The feature is available across all plans, though Team and Enterprise accounts require an administrator to enable it, and API-key authentication is not supported.