Claude Code from your phone: what works in 2026

Three things: know which session needs you, answer a permission prompt or a question with a tap, and get a notification when a session finishes or stops. Typing a long prompt is a distant fourth, and voice input covers most of it.

Install an SSH client such as Termius or Blink, keep Claude Code running inside tmux on a server, and attach from the phone. You get the real terminal, so everything works. What is missing: no notifications, permission prompts need the on-screen keyboard, and the session has to be on a server reachable from the internet. mosh helps with the connection dropping every time the phone switches networks.

VS Code Remote Tunnels expose a machine to vscode.dev, and Claude Code's editor extension runs there. It works in a phone browser in the sense that it loads. The layout is built for a large screen, and again there are no notifications.

Claude Code on the web runs sessions in Anthropic's cloud from the claude.ai app, on a copy of a repository rather than on your machine. Anthropic has also shipped a remote-control mode that lets the Claude app attach to a Claude Code session running on your own computer, which depends on that computer staying awake. Check Anthropic's documentation for current availability and limits.

A number of open-source and hosted projects wrap the Claude Code CLI in a web page you can open on a phone. They vary a lot. The questions to ask are where the session runs, where your files are, whether it survives the page closing, and whether it can notify you.

RoamAI's answer is a list of sessions sorted by which one is waiting for you, approval buttons instead of a keyboard, a push notification when a session stops, and voice input for prompts. Sessions run on a hosted server or on a Linux server you connect. Today the client is the macOS desktop app. The iOS and Android apps are in development and will use the same account.