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 | $19/mo · 7-day free trial |
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 ships an Android app too, as of August 2026.
sources: Anthropic docs — Remote Control · Happy (GitHub) · omnara.com · CodeAgents Mobile (App Store) · getmoshi.app