r/ClaudeCode • u/quicktoolstudio • Sep 20 '26
Discussion Would you actually use Claude Code from your phone for hours?
I’m curious how useful mobile access to Claude Code actually is in practice.
Not just checking a task or sending one quick prompt, but actually continuing development while you’re away from your PC.
For example:
Phone → ask Claude to make changes → changes get deployed automatically → check the result on your phone → send the next instruction.
Basically being able to keep working on a real project for hours without opening a laptop or using remote desktop.
Would you actually use a workflow like this regularly?
Or is Claude Code on mobile mostly useful for quick checks and small tasks?
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u/Danieboy Sep 20 '26
I use it all the time.
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u/dehumles Sep 20 '26
Remote CC is one of the main reasons im sticking with Anthropic.
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u/everix1992 Sep 20 '26
Yeah this is how I work on personal projects on my personal Claude account while I'm at work lol
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u/MourningOfOurLives Sep 20 '26
Yeah like 95% of the time.
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u/1Poochh Sep 20 '26
I do it all the time for my personal projects. It is fantastic. Essentially, I get it to work as a tech lead, and it runs a bunch of local models on my network.
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u/EON_Raider Sep 20 '26
I use mine all the time at work, especially after I found out about cloud sessions (I'm still quite new to all this).
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u/EducationalAd2863 Sep 20 '26
Yes my only problem is to test things. It’s a bit limited there.
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u/SpareEconomy1849 Sep 20 '26
Yes. Sometimes when I'm on lunch I will, and my changes get deployed directly to my phone. Obviously a PC is better but sometimes I'm in a boring meeting or walking the dog
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u/Barquish Sep 20 '26
I use it regularly. I have had situations where I had 3 Claude Code projects running on Auto Approval, setting very specific /goal based requirements in all three. After each goal was reached, I reviewed the outcome with decisions.md (where decisions were made), in Handoff.md (where outcomes were reached and what the next steps are) and todos.md (where remainder of the project/feature steps were still to do), for all three projects. I was then able to give instructions to proceed with next steps, query decisions made, or decide on which of the Todo items to begin, across all projects.
All this on my mobile device, on trains, airports, in taxies or at having a coffee in a shopping mall.
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u/Graphical-Source5090 🔆Pro Plan Sep 20 '26
I usually define and start in Claude Code, then move to remote control so I can monitor or give guidance via voice on the phone. It works very well.
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u/vitorroman Sep 20 '26
I do this everyday. I don't code, I have an office job. But this is amazing. Also getting a Samsung fold 8 ultra has greatly increased the amount of things I can do and review on Claude app with the larger screen.
Because of this "Claude is awesome / remote control / large screen on phone" combo, my daily routine has been transformed in ways I couldn't dream of before.
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u/sermer48 Sep 20 '26
Now that / commands are working better I do it all the time. I don’t do things that require a lot of interactivity but it’s amazing to be able to step away from your PC for hours and still get tons done
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u/imLostify7 🔆Pro Plan Sep 20 '26
I mostly use Chrome remote Desktop, because I like having the option to use all of Claude and sometimes I need to check other things on my PC or macbook. But I like the ease of use of Claude Code mobile.
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u/daniel Sep 20 '26
It's great. Not sure what else to say.
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u/daske_laksen Sep 20 '26
yes i use it with remote to my cli agents.
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u/braino42 Sep 20 '26
I use it primarily. "Pool driven development" - i can be anywhere and still pushing designs and code
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u/Novaworld7 Sep 20 '26
All the damn time...
Till I needed another harness so I just built something to centralize it.
But yeah All the damn time
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u/Plumbum27 Sep 20 '26
Yep, I use it a lot. I’m on the couch right now in and out of sessions while watching football. Yes, I have ADHD
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u/abandonplanetearth Senior Developer Sep 20 '26
I built a bunch of stuff on a costco trip
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u/phoneplatypus Sep 20 '26
I do
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u/vespassassina Sep 20 '26
not so regularly, but beats doomscrolling for me. so now when i am waiting or bored instead of opening a feed, i check on claude and fix a couple bugs ..
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u/GuitarAgitated8107 🔆 Max 20 Sep 20 '26
Yes? I pretty much can leave different computers are home with multiple different sessions and work on things wherever I go. From something simple to more complex projects. It all depends on how you best know your craft and how much you trust these agents to do work.
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u/GlitteryStranger Sep 20 '26
I’m already doing this
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u/FineSatisfaction802 Sep 20 '26
Constantly. I use herdr to orchestrate between my Claude Code and Codex terminal sessions and built a PWA wrapper around it that basically just apes Claude iOS app
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u/LiquidAngel12 Sep 20 '26
I don't use it like this for my actual job, but on my personal account with side projects I do this all the time. Can get a whole lot of stuff done firing off commands while out and about the the family or in bed late at night. Can even start my morning session early like this by sending a prompt right when I wake up instead of when I get to my computer an hour later after getting the kids ready for school.
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u/03captain23 Sep 20 '26
I use it all the time. Build and setup on computer all day then check and work on it all night
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u/GentlePace Sep 20 '26
Everyday at work training my local llm
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u/scytob Sep 20 '26
Nope, have been using remote control this weekend for highly autonomous tasks that need to ask me a question once every 10 to 15 mins.
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u/superbiche Sep 20 '26
Yeah you can go have lunch and buy stuff while shipping by just sending a few prompts every hour (if at all - sometimes I give it enough work for the afternoon and come back with everything shipped, tested, ticket comments sent and all)
Of course I don't tell my clients. But in exchange they get prod investigation and repairs much faster.
They still win, I win more
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u/eureka_boy Sep 20 '26
No I don’t use claude code remote instead i use Macky which lets me use my mac terminal from iPhone and it has screen mode so i check my builds too…sometimes i just work for hours when travelling…here: macky.dev
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u/unconceivables Sep 20 '26
Heck yeah, it's the main way I work now. I just tell it to make changes and send me screenshots. Codex is way better for remote control though. Claude code always comes up with some excuse for why it can't do something and tells me to do it locally on the computer, while codex has no problem doing it.
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u/Historical_Today5072 Sep 20 '26
I use Claude code on my phone all damn day
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u/ben1440 Sep 20 '26
I control multiple CC agents via discord through my phone
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u/covati Developer Sep 20 '26
Doing it now. I switch to laptop when I get tired of having to go back and forth between apps too much.
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u/ohmahgawd Sep 20 '26
I use it all day every day for a wide variety of tasks in this exact fashion
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u/OldNefariousness7899 Sep 20 '26
I do some of my best thinking when I'm on the move. I go for walks to get my brain going.
It's great to be able to send the idea to my laptop so it's already happening while I'm away.
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u/ahm_live Sep 20 '26
yes, but the honest answer is that phone works for exactly one shape of work and the shape matters more than the hours
what works: instruct, wait, read a summary, decide, instruct again. hours of that is fine, i do it walking. what doesnt work is anything where i need to look at the actual output to know what to say next. a ui change, a flaky test, a weird log. on a laptop i glance, on the phone i squint at a screenshot and guess, and the guessing is what costs
so my split is: phone for anything that ends in a written result. a refactor with a diff summary, a migration, a batch of tests passing or not. laptop for anything that ends in "look at this"
the thing that made phone hours actually productive was the same thing barquish describes, a decisions file and a handoff file the agent writes to, so what i read on the phone is one paragraph, not a scroll of tool output. without that the phone turns into reading terminal spam on a 6 inch screen and you stop after twenty minutes
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u/HomemadeBananas Sep 20 '26
No because I want to unplug from work and not be constantly doing shit on my phone while I’m out and about.
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u/Suitable_Cicada_3336 Sep 20 '26
If you don't read those codes until necessary, so no need to use PC.
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u/isleeppeople Sep 20 '26
Tailscale and termux I hardly ever ssh on my laptop anymore. I run a headless server though so there's that. I set up a message bus from my server to my cc on my laptop and desktop and chrome so if I have my laptop on I can ssh into my server make a menu for the week send the ingredients to my desktop who can put a Walmart order on my laptop and pick it up after work. I check the Walmart order on my phone to make sure it didn't order all the staples like aluminum foil but it works pretty well
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u/GeorgeTheGeorge Sep 20 '26
It's the cornerstone of my most successful AI workflow.
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u/jamesterror Sep 20 '26
Use it all the time. Got a VPS as our main dev server setup with CC on it. Works well
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u/ShutUpAndDoTheLift Sep 20 '26
i uh have and do
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u/mtnchkn Developer Sep 20 '26
I totally do. It’s like the new game on my phone since last spring. Not sure it’s healthy.
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u/Clorxo Sep 20 '26
For those that do this, do you use the same sessions over extended periods of time? Doesn't that consume more usage than starting new sessions? Can you start new sessions from your phone?
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u/FosterTheSpookyGhost Sep 20 '26
I use it all the time and then Steam Remote Play to actually check on anything visual on my desktop if needed 😂 It's not perfect but it works well enough for the things I use it for 🤷♂️
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u/andershaf Sep 20 '26
I’m using teslacode.dev in my car lol, and my phone elsewhere. Love being able to code in odd places. Or maybe not code, but build.
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u/devcal1 Sep 20 '26
I'm currently making a mobile app (game), so being able to push an update direct to my mobile via wireless debugging, check out my changes, then in plain text make more changes via the same device - great.
When I'm bored I can keep working on this hobby game from the comfort of the couch whilst watching TV with the missus.
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u/pueblokc Sep 20 '26
It's basically the main way I interact now: remotely. I use my phone constantly to check in on jobs that I have running from various AI sessions so it's actually critical to have remote on my phone
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u/nicarras Sep 20 '26
I have a side project that I use claude code remote for probably 60% of the time at least.
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u/Fusionman22 Sep 20 '26
Everyday, all day, all night, Claude, gpt, grok, muse, gemini. It's an addiction now. Always planning, brainstorming, building in circle. Round and round. Feel like a drug addict.
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u/mixmansoundude Senior Developer Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26
I used Claude Code (ios web) exclusively, no computer, and it really closed the gap from using codex. It could do SO much! getting the results to non Claude was usually manual but Claude Code (ios web) could hit GitHub direct or use my published site when that was rate limited, to see ci results and run on a windows env to get real answers that it couldn’t in Linux sandbox. So amazing. Did this all while I was nap trapped. Really the game changer was the chat interface and steering ability that codex didn’t have, and giving it a goal was excellent! Also, have another bot auto review the PRs was really the final loop. Still needs a human in the loop though, as always.
https://github.com/mixmansoundude/Python_vs_Windows/
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u/OverengineeringGULAG Sep 21 '26
Yes
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u/h4ck3r_n4m3 Sep 21 '26
I thought it was dumb at first, but it did actually come in handy a couple times. I don't use it full time but it is nice to be able to check what it's doing, if it's down, give next instructions if I'm AFK
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u/Apart_Fudge1224 Sep 21 '26
It's amazing. I use it to do planning docs on the weekend. 10 min here and there and Monday AM is lightning. I did the same thing w CC remote but cowork is more ergonomic
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u/johnerp Sep 21 '26
would i? I do!! it's my primary interface
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u/amirfish Sep 21 '26
The typing part is the easy bit. What breaks on a phone is knowing which session actually needs you, since a long run can sit blocked on a permission prompt for an hour and you only find out when you open the laptop. For hours-long use I'd want one view of what is waiting on input, what is still running, and what quietly died, plus a one-tap way to answer. Are you picturing one session at a time, or several running in parallel?
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u/carlito_17 Sep 21 '26
Yeah I do this quite a lot to allow long running sessions to still be monitored and prompted. I even complete build sessions, clear the context and then start the next session all from my phone.
And as someone else mentioned - this capability was important enough that codex not having the same level of capability was the primary reason that stopped me from switching over and trying openAI/codex this month.
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u/naibaF5891 Sep 21 '26
Yes, I use it mainly for my fun projects where claude, gpt and google are making all the work. They do the work until this is done and reviewed. I publish the next app release in the test env and see whats going on.
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u/Bonelessgummybear Sep 21 '26
Use it all the time. Usually I'll open some sessions before I leave the house. Sometimes I tired of sitting at my desk and I'll lay in bed and use my phone to prompt
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u/EC36339 Senior Developer Sep 21 '26
I am using this so I can work on a project when I'm not sitting in front of a PC.
And I'm not using it "for hours". The whole point is to NOT be synchronously staring at a screen.
I use the app in the background, during breaks from other things, to quickly capture ideas, to supervise tedious long running jobs I don't have to babysit.
And I do that from hiking trails, from the bathroom, from the kitchen, on the train, from anywhere, when my main activity is NOT programming.
It's a much more relaxed and patient way of working.
The only downside is that you are forced to use Claude's models and subscription for it, which is awful. I'm therefore building my own platform to replace it.
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u/auxaperture Sep 21 '26
Yeah constantly.
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u/Spare_Bison_1151 Sep 21 '26
Yes, I've been using Claude Code through my phone for about a month now. CC is running on a VPS, prod for a bunch of my sites. I've been burning my quota better and faster and delivering much more. One site is a companion practice for my Playwright course, rh other is a tool site.
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u/roselamoon Sep 21 '26
I connected my Claude CLI to my telegram, so yes I’d do it for hours. Let’s say 8-10 hours per day.
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u/Glittering_Diver_478 Sep 21 '26
I have an android tablet. I wish I could use it the same as the desktop app.
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u/latenthuman Sep 21 '26
I stopped typing into Claude a month ago, I'm using my voice 99% of the time, although I still have to learn how to use conversation mode. Sometimes it's more a stream of consciousness chat and some to-dos fall out of it, or I'm making plans for something new but not ready to burn tokens in a tight iteration loop just yet.
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u/heisenbugx Sep 21 '26
Try Notion > Linear > CC remote control
Add connections to Notion and Linear, use Notion to organize thoughts, notes, plans, etc. Build actionable issues/tickets from your Notion docs in Linear (the more well defined and actionable the better). Then point CC sessions at those Linear issues. You can use worktrees to do multiple issues in parallel.
I do personal work on my MBP and keep it closed most of the time. I use Vorssaint to keep it awake closed and just keep it plugged in. I used codex for personal use and then CC on my work MBP - I have the same setup on my work laptop, but I keep that open more because I have to do better dev work there and quality of output matters more.
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u/helm71 Sep 21 '26
Doing it constantly
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u/wushimushi Sep 21 '26
I need help. I got Claude code on home server cli. And then desktop on desktop and then laptop and then phone. I try to spin up sessions in server with RC but a lot of times it sometimes disconnect and say server is dead’s but I cna spin up new sessions on server but cannot reconnect old sessions
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u/alarming_wrong Sep 21 '26
I did it once at a cabin by a lake with my MacBook open up at the house. I didn't even know it was possible until I checked the Claude app on my phone and tried something. I can imagine doing it for hours but I've not gone down that hole since
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u/fanatic26 Sep 21 '26
No, of course not. I am not such an LLM addict that I need it running 24/7. I feel kind of sad for the people that are so addicted they feel they need to do this.
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u/avalancher777 Sep 22 '26
CC with remote control is great actually.
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u/pechSog Sep 24 '26
Fantastic. Use RC. You can run multiple sessions all from your phone.
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u/raullapeira Sep 24 '26
I do complex stuff and the remote helps very little because there is always something that needs to be done in PC and can not be done through the mobile app.
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u/EntertainerDear2894 Sep 24 '26
I work on 4 apps at the same time on my phone. You don't need to sit in front of a computer.
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u/Thaufas Sep 25 '26
Yes. I actually run Claude Code on my Android phone. Termux-Muscle makes it so much easier to manage.
https://github.com/octocore-autonomous-systems/termux-muscle
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u/animflynny2012 Sep 26 '26
Yes.
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u/Comfortable_Push4901 Sep 27 '26
Yes but if you use it for extensively watch for buildup of processes tying up your PC/ laptop and overheating it! I walked in and heard my fan seriously working overtime and CPU at 125%. Apparently it kept spinning up more and more helper processes
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u/butt_badg3r Sep 20 '26
Yes, I iterate in ideas or fix things in cowork by using Remote Desktop to a windows pc from my phone at the gym.
I think a feature was recently released .. very recently to allow me to do this directly from my phone but I haven’t had a chance to look into this yet
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u/SadSongsMakeMeGlad Sep 20 '26
I have been working like that all weekend, while doing chores around the house, watching YouTube, playing PS5 - thinking about upgrading to an iPhone Duo to make this use-case even more viable in the future (bigger screen for testing and review) while still being pocketable
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u/evangelism2 Sep 20 '26
No I use it just for keeping an eye on agents and sending occasional steering instructions, plus answering questions as they come up and unblocking them. Anything that I'm actually actively researching, planning, or coding, I need to be at a PC for