can you use claude code on your iphone?
Yes. As of July 2026 there are at least seven real ways to run Claude Code from an iPhone — actual Claude Code, on your own Claude subscription, working on real repos. They fall into three families, and picking is mostly one question: are you willing to keep a machine of yours running?
the three families
- Mirrors of your own machine. Anthropic’s first-party Remote Control (Max research preview), the open-source Happy, and Omnara’s control plane all stream a session that runs on your computer. Free to cheap, well made — and the machine stays on. There are also Mac-companion apps like “Mobile IDE for Claude Code” that relay prompts to your Mac’s CLI over iCloud, and Anthropic’s Dispatch (Claude Cowork, macOS) drives your desktop from the phone — same family: your machine stays on.
- Your own server. CodeAgents Mobile (free, SSH, can provision a DigitalOcean/Hetzner box), Moshi (a polished mosh/tmux terminal with a Claude Code chat view, free to start), or plain SSH with Termius + tmux. No laptop needed, but you maintain a server.
- Cloud-native. Two options here. Anthropic’s own Claude Code on the web (claude.ai/code, also in the Claude iOS app) runs the session in a cloud VM and hands you back a pull request. Yado — the one I build — starts a cloud container with your repos and runs Claude Code there as a live workspace: chat, a real terminal, previews. Nothing of yours has to be running with either; with Yado the honest trade is that your code works on my infrastructure rather than Anthropic’s.
quick comparison
| option | what must stay running | price |
|---|---|---|
| Remote Control (Anthropic) | your machine, terminal open | $0 (Max research preview) |
| Claude Code on the web (Anthropic) | nothing of yours — cloud VM, PR handoff | included in your subscription |
| Happy | your machine or your VPS | $0, open source |
| Omnara | your machine (cloud sessions in paid tiers) | free core, paid tiers |
| CodeAgents Mobile | your own Linux server | $0 (server costs are yours) |
| Moshi / plain SSH | your own machine or server | $0 to start (Moshi Pro $7.99/mo) + server |
| Yado | nothing of yours | $0 (1 session) · Pro $9.99/mo optional |
The full scenario-by-scenario rundown: 7 ways to run Claude Code from your phone.
do I need my Mac on?
Depends on the tool. Mirrors like Anthropic’s Remote Control, Happy, and Omnara stream a session running on your own machine, so yes — it stays on. Server-based options (CodeAgents Mobile, plain SSH) need a server you maintain instead. Yado runs the session in its own cloud container, so nothing of yours has to be on — and Anthropic’s Claude Code on the web is also cloud-based (a PR-handoff flow rather than a live workspace).
does it use my Claude subscription?
Yes — every real option in 2026 rides your existing Claude Pro or Max subscription. Anthropic bills your tokens directly; the phone apps are interfaces, not resellers.
does it keep working when I lock my phone?
With the mirrors, yes — as long as the machine actually running the session stays awake and online. With Yado the session lives in the cloud, so locking your phone changes nothing: the work continues and a push notification arrives when it’s done.
is there an Android option?
Happy and Omnara ship Android apps, and Remote Control works in any browser. Yado is iOS-only as of July 2026.
sources: Anthropic docs — Remote Control · Happy (GitHub) · omnara.com · CodeAgents Mobile (App Store) · getmoshi.app