Claude Cowork comes to mobile and web: what changes

On 7 July 2026, Anthropic announced the extension of Claude Cowork, its desktop agent, to the web and to the iOS and Android mobile apps. Access opened first to Max subscribers, before extending to the other paid plans in the following weeks. Concretely, the agent that ran tasks on your computer can now keep working while you follow its progress from your phone.

What Claude Cowork is, in one sentence

It is an agent that carries a task end to end rather than answering a single question: sorting files, preparing a presentation, moving a multi-step project forward, with validation checkpoints when it needs you. Concretely, you grant Claude access to a specific folder on your computer, and it reads, edits and creates files within that scope, drawing on connectors to your other tools if needed.

Anthropic launched Cowork in preview on 12 January 2026, first reserved for Max subscribers on macOS, before opening it to Pro subscribers a few days later. The feature reached general availability on desktop (macOS and Windows) on 9 April 2026, included at no extra cost in all paid subscriptions. Originally oriented rather towards development-adjacent tasks — inherited from the architecture of Claude Code — it gradually widened to everyday office uses: it is this shift that the 7 July mobile and web extension carries further.

What changes with the mobile and web extension

Before this update, you had to keep a computer on for a Cowork task to progress. Now:

• You launch a task from the Claude app or claude.ai, then follow it from another device.
• Scheduled tasks run without a device staying continuously connected.
• On mobile, you receive notifications when the agent needs a validation, and you can decide in one tap rather than reopening a computer.
• No separate app to install: a simple update of the Claude app makes the Cowork tab appear.

Who can benefit

Subscription	Access to Cowork mobile/web
Claude Free	No
Pro	Yes (included, no extra cost)
Max	Yes (priority access from 7 July)
Team / Enterprise	Yes (included)

No extra tier to pay: the feature is added to existing subscriptions. For Team and Enterprise teams, Anthropic has also added role-based access controls, spend caps and usage tracking — enough to frame the tasks given to the agent at an organisation scale, not just an individual workstation.

What it changes for a non-technical manager or freelancer

The point is not to code faster, but to delegate a multi-step task without staying in front of the screen while it runs. A concrete example: preparing a file, organising documents, moving a document draft forward, then taking back control at the moment of validation — from your phone, between two meetings. It is a more autonomous version of what the agentic modes of other assistants already allowed, like ChatGPT in its role as an assistant that executes tasks. The principle stays the same as for any automation: keep human validation on what matters, a reflex detailed in our method to automate a task with AI.

The points of caution

Before launching a Cowork task on a professional folder, two reflexes are essential. First, precisely limit the folder you give access to: the agent reads, edits and creates files within the scope you authorise, so a dedicated work folder is better than broad access to the whole drive. Second, reread the result before any send or final action, especially for the first tasks entrusted: an agent that chains several steps without continuous supervision can drift further than a simple prompt, even if it stops to ask for validation at the planned moments.

Key takeaway

Nothing experimental here: the mobile and web extension builds on a feature already generalised on desktop since April 2026, it merely removes the fixed-workstation constraint. If you have a paid Claude subscription, updating the app is enough to try it — starting with a low-stakes task, time to gauge what the agent does well and what you should keep checking yourself.