Anthropic prepares Cowork support for mobile apps

Anthropic is testing Cowork for iOS, hinting at cloud-based execution for mobile scheduling and broader access.

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Anthropic appears close to extending Cowork, its agentic system for knowledge work, beyond the desktop. A build of the iOS app carries a Cowork entry, gated behind a feature flag, that would surface in the side navigation. Tapping it reveals copy about scheduling Cowork tasks from a phone and picking up results across mobile, web, or desktop, plus a tab that gathers every scheduled action in one place.

That framing points to a shift rather than a debut. Cowork already reached phones in March through Dispatch, which lets someone message a desktop session remotely, but only while the computer stays awake, since the work runs locally. The new wording suggests moving execution to the cloud and the web, lifting Dispatch's central constraint so tasks can run without a machine left on. The copy is already written, hinting at a release as soon as this week, though nothing is operational yet.

A second finding concerns voice. New consent text in the app sources accompanies a model selector for voice mode, letting users choose the model behind the spoken experience. Claude Voice has leaned on Haiku 4.5 for a while, so the selector reads as groundwork for an underlying model refresh, on top of the multilingual rollout already underway across accounts.