Claude Code on your Phone is OFFICIAL (it changes everything)

TL;DR

Anthropic officially added remote control to Claude Code, letting you run your laptop's full dev environment from the native Claude iPhone app — no VPN needed.

Key Points

• 1.Activate it by typing `/remote-control` in your Claude Code terminal, then open the Claude app on your phone to see and resume the live session instantly.
• 2.Unlike previous workarounds, this uses Anthropic's own servers — not a VPN or third-party SSH tool — so the connection is handled natively through the Claude app.
• 3.Your phone accesses your laptop's actual resources, meaning all configured skills, tools, and local files run on the machine, not a stripped-down mobile environment.
• 4.Currently a research preview, limited to Mac users and Pro subscribers; starting a new session still requires initiating from the laptop first before going remote.
• 5.The feature directly competes with OpenClaw, which the creator was previously using just to access Claude Code CLI remotely while away from his desk.