Remote on your phone

Claude often works for minutes and then stops to ask before it runs a command, or to ask you a question. With Remote you see that on your phone and answer it there, from the couch, a meeting or the train.

On your phone you can:

• see your sessions with their status and each Claude profile’s usage, and answer what Claude asks right from the list;
• switch between sessions from a drawer, with one tap;
• read a session’s conversation as it happens, with Claude’s answers formatted and its tool runs folded into one line;
• allow or deny what Claude asks, answer its questions, and start or keep working on a plan;
• send a prompt, or add one to Up next while Claude works, and remove it again, steer Claude or stop it;
• see what a finished session did, look at its changes and commit them;
• stop Claude’s turn, mark a session as read or archive it, with a swipe;
• start a new session in one of the projects you added in Switchboard, with that project’s defaults or your own choice of Claude profile, model, effort, mode, worktree and branch;
• get a notification when a session needs you or finishes.

Everything else stays on your computer: the terminal, pushing and pull requests, memory, settings, managing profiles and file attachments.

Remote also lets Switchboard on another computer, such as your laptop, show this computer’s sessions in its own sidebar. That uses the same tunnel and pairing as a phone: see Other computers.

How it works

Switchboard on your computer listens on 127.0.0.1, port 47615 unless you change it under Advanced → Port in Settings → Remote. Only your computer can reach that address. A tunnel gives it an https:// address your phone can reach from anywhere. The page on your phone is the remote app at switchboard.struyfconsulting.com/remote/, and it connects to your computer through the tunnel.

Only devices you pair can get in. Each one has its own key, every connection checks that key and your computer’s, and everything is encrypted from your phone to your computer. The tunnel carries your messages, but it can’t read or change them.

Settings → Remote

Settings → Remote (Command, Comma⌘,Control, CommaCtrl,) shows first what you open it for:

• The status card says whether Remote works: Running with the address and who is connected, or what is wrong with the fix as a button. Install Tailscale or Use Cloudflare instead when a tool is missing, Use port 47616 when another app has the port, Try again and Show details when it can’t start.
• Paired devices, each with when it last connected, Rename and Revoke.
• Connection: the tunnel and its address. Change… opens the choices, and nothing changes until Save and restart.
• Advanced: the port, and how Remote keeps others out.

With Remote off and nothing paired, the page shows three steps instead: choose a tunnel, Turn on Remote, then pair a device.

Choose a tunnel

Under Connection in Settings → Remote, click Change… to choose how your phone reaches this computer. Switchboard starts the tunnel when you turn Remote on and stops it when you turn Remote off or quit.

Tunnel	Needs	Address
Cloudflare quick tunnel	cloudflared installed, no account	Changes each time it starts
Tailscale	Tailscale on your computer and your phone, HTTPS certificates on for your tailnet	Stays the same
ngrok	ngrok installed and signed in to your account	Stays the same with your ngrok domain
My own address	A tunnel or proxy you run yourself, forwarding to http://127.0.0.1 and your port (47615 by default)	Yours

Tailscale is the most private: only your own devices on your tailnet can reach the address. With the others, anyone who has the address can reach Remote, but only paired devices get past it.

Cloudflare with your own domain

A quick tunnel gets a new address each time it starts. If your domain is on Cloudflare, a named tunnel gives you an address that never changes, such as https://switchboard.example.com.

1. Follow Cloudflare’s guide to create a tunnel and run it on your computer.
2. Add a public hostname to the tunnel with your domain. Set its service to http://127.0.0.1:47615, or your own port if you changed it.
3. In Settings → Remote, choose My own address and enter the https:// address of that hostname.

Don’t put a login page, such as Cloudflare Access, in front of it: your phone can’t get past it.

ngrok's free plan

ngrok’s free plan can show a warning page in front of your address, which a phone can’t get past. If your phone can’t connect through ngrok, use Cloudflare or Tailscale.

Install cloudflared or ngrok with Homebrew (brew install cloudflared, brew install ngrok). Switchboard finds them in Homebrew’s folders and in /usr/local/bin. Tailscale’s app from the App Store or tailscale.com works as it is.

Install cloudflared or ngrok with winget (winget install Cloudflare.cloudflared, winget install ngrok.ngrok). Switchboard finds them where winget puts them, in Program Files and on your PATH. Tailscale’s installer from tailscale.com works as it is.

Pair a device

1. In Settings → Remote, choose a tunnel and click Turn on Remote. Wait until the card says Running.

2. Click Pair a device. Switchboard shows a QR code. It works once, for two minutes.

3. Scan it with your phone’s camera. Your phone opens the remote app and asks for a name for the phone.

4. Tap Pair. Your phone shows a 6-digit code, and Switchboard asks Pair your phone? with a code too.

5. Check that both codes are the same, then click Allow.

To use Remote in the browser of another computer instead, click Copy link under the QR code and open the link there. It pairs the same way and works once, for two minutes, like the code. To pair Switchboard on another computer, see Other computers.

Your phone shows your sessions. Add it to your home screen to open it like an app. Next time it connects by itself.

On an iPhone or iPad

Switchboard Remote on your Home Screen keeps its own pairing, apart from Safari’s, and has no address bar. So pair it from there: after you scan the QR code, don’t tap Pair in Safari. Tap Copy link, then Share and Add to Home Screen. Open Switchboard Remote from your Home Screen, tap Paste and pair. The link works once, for two minutes: if it runs out, click Pair a device again, scan the new code and paste its link.

A link from your computer also works pasted in: in Switchboard Remote without a pairing, paste it under Link from your computer and tap Open link. This works for a link from Reconnect a paired device too.

When the address changes

A Cloudflare quick tunnel, or ngrok without a domain, gets a new address each time it starts. When no paired device has used the new one yet, the card says Address changed. Your devices don’t have to pair again: click Reconnect a paired device and scan that code with one of them. It holds no secret and pairs nothing. The same button is under Advanced.

Change the port

Switchboard listens on port 47615. If another app uses it, the card says so and offers the next free port. To pick one yourself, open Advanced in Settings → Remote and change Port to a number from 1024 to 65535. Remote restarts on the new port. With My own address, point your tunnel at the new port too.

Paired devices, Rename and Revoke

Paired devices in Settings → Remote lists your phones, browsers and other computers, each with when it last connected and Connected now while it is. Rename changes a device’s name in place: Return↩EnterEnter saves, EscapeEsc cancels. Revoke asks first, then disconnects the device at once, and it can’t connect again until you pair it again. A device that doesn’t connect for 30 days is removed. On the phone, Forget this computer… in the computer’s menu (tap its name at the top) or in the ⋯ menu removes the pairing from the phone.

Who is connected now

While Remote is on, Connected to this MacConnected to this PC at the bottom of the sidebar lists the phones, browsers and computers connected right now, with since when. It sits right above Computers: one is who reaches into this computer, the other is where you reach out. Click the header to fold it, and the gear to open Settings → Remote.

• Click a device to see its details: since when it is connected, its last action, such as Sent a prompt in Needs review sort or Answered Allow Bash in tideline, when it was paired, and the address it came through. Click the session’s name to open it. The last action is kept until Switchboard quits; before that, it says No actions yet.
• Revoke shows when you point at a device or move to it with Tab⇥TabTab. It asks first, then disconnects the device at once. It has to pair again to come back. EscapeEsc cancels.
• A new connection shows a toast, such as Sam’s iPhone connected, with Revoke in case it wasn’t you. It shows once a day per device, and not right after you paired it.
• Nobody connected: a quiet line, Remote on · nobody connected, says Remote is on. To hide it, turn off Show in the sidebar when nobody is connected in Settings → Remote.
• Remote can’t start: the line turns orange. Click it to see why in Settings → Remote.

With the sidebar collapsed, a phone icon with a green count shows how many devices are connected. Point at it for their names, or click it for the details, with Revoke… for each.

Your sessions

The app opens on your sessions. This is the app’s only home on a phone: everything else is one step away from it. At the top is your computer’s name. Tap it for your computer’s menu. Under it, one line says how your phone is connected and what is going on, such as Connected · 2 need you or Connected · 1 finished today. On the right are the magnifier and the ⋯ menu. With more than one computer, the sessions of all of them are in this list: see More than one computer.

When you scroll down, the name moves into the bar at the top, in small type with the dot, and the magnifier and the ⋯ menu stay there.

Tap the magnifier to search the titles, project names and branches. The search field takes the name’s place, with Cancel next to it. While you search, All, Needs you and Working under the field narrow the list. Cancel closes the search and shows your whole list again.

The card under it shows how much of your plan is used: Usage with a bar for the 5-hour window and one for the week. With more than one Claude profile it is Profiles, with a row for each, its colour and both bars. With three or more, it shows the two closest to a limit and +1 for the rest. A bar turns orange from 60% and red from 85%. Tap the card for each profile’s full card, with when each window resets; tap it again to fold them. The numbers come from your computer: they update when it checks, and each time you come back to the app.

What Claude asks shows next, as cards with a pink frame, the oldest first:

• A command, an edit or a fetch has Deny and Allow on the card. Allow answers it from the list, and the card folds away. Always allow isn’t on the card: open the session to read what it does.
• A question or a plan is a short row. Tap it to answer in the session.

Tap anywhere else on a card to open its session. If someone answered first, on your computer or another phone, the phone says Already answered.

Below the cards are your sessions by group: Working, Today, Yesterday and Earlier. Sessions you haven’t read have a bold title. With more than one Claude profile, a dot in the profile’s colour comes before the project’s name, and the session’s left edge has that colour too, as in Switchboard’s sidebar. New session is at the bottom of the screen.

Pull the list down from the top to refresh it: it says Pull to refresh, then Release to refresh, and shows a spinner until the new list is in.

Swipe a session

• Swipe right to mark it as read, on blue with a check.
• Swipe left to archive it.

A short swipe shows the button: tap it, or tap the session to put it back. A long swipe, past most of the row, does it at once. Either way a message says what happened, with Undo. A session that needs you doesn’t swipe, so you can’t dismiss a prompt by accident: open it to answer.

A long press on a session has the same Mark as read and Archive, and so does a right-click in a browser on a computer. With a screen reader, each session has its own actions button. Undo after Mark as read needs this version of Switchboard on your computer.

Switch sessions

In a session, the button at the top left opens your other sessions in a drawer. Its pink count says how many other sessions need you. You can also swipe from the left edge of the screen to pull the drawer out. Tap a session to switch to it.

The drawer has a search field, Home, your sessions by group with the open one picked, and New session at the bottom. Tap Home to go back to the first screen. With more than one Claude profile, the Home row shows how much each profile has used, such as Work 82% and Personal 18%. With three or more, it shows the one closest to a limit and +2.

To close the drawer, tap next to it, swipe it to the left, or use the back gesture. A session you pick takes the place of the one you had open, so the back gesture goes back to your sessions, not through every session you looked at.

Your computer’s menu

The line under your computer’s name has a green dot and Connected while your phone is connected. It turns orange with Reconnecting… while your phone tries again, red with Offline when it stopped trying, and grey with Disconnected after you disconnect. In the drawer, and in a wide window, the chip with your computer’s name shows the same dot. Tap the name, or the chip, for your computer’s menu:

• Its name and how it’s connected, such as Connected for 2h · encrypted.
• Disconnect closes the connection and keeps the pairing. The app says Disconnected from your computer, with Connect, and shows your last list greyed out. It stays disconnected until you tap Connect, also after a reload. When you open the app again later, it connects by itself.
• Pair another computer… pairs this phone with one more computer. See More than one computer.
• Forget this computer… asks first, then removes the pairing from this phone. Your other computers stay paired, and their sessions stay in the list. To use Remote with this computer again, pair the phone again.

More than one computer

Your phone can be paired with several computers, such as a laptop and a desktop. Each one runs Switchboard with Remote on, and you pair the phone with each of them.

1. In the computer’s menu (tap its name at the top), tap Pair another computer….
2. On the other computer, open Settings → Remote, turn on Allow access from my phone and click Pair a device.
3. Scan its QR code with your phone’s camera, or click Copy link under the code and paste the link on your phone. On an iPhone with Switchboard Remote on the Home Screen, tap Copy link on the page that the camera opens, and paste it in the app.

The app stays connected to all of them, and shows the sessions of every computer in one list, as Switchboard shows another computer’s sessions in its sidebar. Each session says which computer it runs on, such as mystic, before its project. So do the cards of what Claude asks, a session’s header, Home in a wide window, and the search (Command, K⌘KControl, KCtrlK). Needs you, Working and the other groups have the sessions of every computer, newest first.

The title at the top says Sessions. Under it, a chip for each computer has its status dot and, in pink, how many of its sessions need you. Tap a chip for that computer’s menu: how it’s connected, Disconnect or Connect, and Forget this computer…. Pair another computer… is in the ⋯ menu. In the drawer, and in a wide window, the chips are under Sessions.

When a computer is offline or disconnected, a line under the title says so: tap it for help, or tap Connect after you disconnected, and its sessions stay in the list, greyed out, until it is back. The other computers work as before. A computer that no longer knows your phone says Pair again with its name, with Forget.

In New session, Run on picks the computer the session starts on. Its projects become the tiles, and what you typed stays when you switch. A computer that isn’t connected stays in the switch, greyed out, with why, such as Offline. The app picks the computer you last started a session on, while it is connected.

The count on the drawer button, on each chip and in the browser tab adds up what needs you on every connected computer. The usage card has a row for each computer, such as mystic, or mystic · Work when that computer has more than one Claude profile. A profile signed in to the same account on more than one computer has one row, with the profile’s name, and its full card says which computers it is on, such as On mystic and studio. Each computer keeps its own pairing: Disconnect and Forget this computer… only affect the computer whose chip you tapped.

A session

The header shows the session’s status, project and branch, and with more than one Claude profile, the profile it runs with, such as · Work. The ⋯ menu has Stop while Claude works, Mark as read and Archive. Opening a session marks it as read, as on your computer.

When Claude needs you, the question stays above the message box, so it doesn’t scroll away: Claude needs you, what it asks, and Deny, Always allow when it’s offered, and Allow. The arrow folds it to one line while you read the conversation. With more than one, 1 of 2 and the arrows step through them. While it’s open, the message box says Or tell Claude what to do instead: what you send there says no, with your message as the reason.

While you type, the keyboard never covers the message box, and the question folds to one line above it, such as Claude needs you · Allow Bash?. Tap that line to read it again: the keyboard goes away and the question unfolds.

While Claude works, the end of the conversation shows three dots, how long the turn has taken and what Claude is doing, such as Thinking or Using Bash. A working session’s dot pulses, in the list and in the header.

When Claude’s turn ended but a background command or agent it started still runs, the session isn’t done yet: Claude carries on when that finishes. The header says Running in the background, the end of the conversation says what still runs in green, such as 1 background command running, and the catch-up waits until it’s done. A green pill above the message box, such as 1 background command, lists each task with how long it has run. Tap Stop next to one to stop it; Claude is told it was stopped. Seeing and stopping the tasks needs this version of Switchboard on your computer.

Claude’s answers show headings, lists, links, code and tables, also while Claude is still writing them. Code blocks have Copy, which stays at the top of the screen while you scroll through a long block. A run of tool calls is one line, such as 6 steps · edited 3 files, ran 2 commands: tap it to see each step. The run Claude is working on stays open.

When a session finished, and nothing it started still runs in the background, it starts with its catch-up, as on your computer: how it ended, how long it takes to review, what Claude did, whether the tests passed, and how much changed. The conversation is folded under it: tap Show the conversation to read it.

In a session that runs in Switchboard, the chips under the message box show its model, effort and permission mode. Tap one to change it. The effort chip only shows for a model that takes an effort; Default is the model’s own. From a phone you can pick Ask before edits, Accept edits, Plan mode or Auto mode.

While Claude works, Stop is next to the send button. A message you send waits under Up next above the message box, with × to remove it. It shows what you queued for the session on your computer too. When you stop Claude from your phone, Up next carries on: its first message goes as soon as the turn has stopped.

To send a message another way while Claude works, tap the arrow next to the send button: Queue holds it in Up next until Claude finishes, Steer gives it to Claude now, and Claude reads it at its next step, and Send now stops Claude first. With a keyboard, Option, Return⌥↩Alt, EnterAltEnter steers and Command, Shift, Return⌘⇧↩Control, Shift, EnterCtrlShiftEnter sends now. A message you type and don’t send stays in that session’s message box, also when you open another session or reload the page, until you send it.

To send images or files with a message, tap the paperclip button next to the message box: your phone offers its camera and its photos, and a computer offers its files. In a browser on a computer, you can also paste a screenshot or drop files on the message box. Each shows above the box, with a button to remove it. A message takes up to four images and four files, and about 2.7 MB in all. Your phone makes big photos smaller before it sends them. New session takes them too, and starts the session with them. Sending files, and images with a new session, needs this version of Switchboard on your computer. Queue for later doesn’t take attachments.

Ask about this session

The blue question mark in a session’s header opens Ask about this session, as on your computer: ask Claude what changed, which files it touched or why it took an approach, while it keeps working. Nothing is added to the conversation. On a phone it opens as a sheet, in a wide window on the right, in the place of Changes.

A new thread starts with four questions to tap. Follow-ups go with the earlier questions of their thread. New thread starts another, and ⋯ lists the earlier ones. The questions you asked on your computer are there too. Under an answer, Copy copies it and Quote in message puts it in the message box as a quote. Close Ask while Claude answers, and a blue dot on the button says when the answer is ready.

Changes and Commit

The file button in a session’s header, and Changes on its catch-up, open what changed in the session’s folder (its worktree when it has one): each file with the lines added and removed, and the diff of the file you tap. Swipe it down to close it.

• Ask Claude to fix… puts the file’s name in the message box, so you only say what to change.
• Commit commits every change, with your message. It starts with what you asked Claude. It only commits: nothing is pushed. When a commit hook says no, the phone shows what it printed.

New session

Pick a project from the row of tiles (swipe for more), then type what Claude should do. With more than one computer, Run on above the tiles picks the computer it starts on (see More than one computer). On a phone, All projects lists every project, with a filter when you have many. Under the box, chips show the project’s defaults: the model, the effort, the permission mode, and This folder or New worktree. Tap one to change it for this session only. On a phone, its choices open from the bottom of the screen.

With This folder, the branch chip shows the branch checked out in the project’s folder. Pick another local branch and Switchboard checks it out before the session starts. Git keeps your uncommitted changes, or refuses when they conflict; then the session doesn’t start and the app says why. A branch checked out in another worktree isn’t listed.

With Auto model on in Settings › Conversation on your computer, the model list starts with Auto: Haiku reads your prompt and picks the model the session starts on, from the models you allowed. In the session, the model chip then says what it picked, such as Auto · Sonnet, until you pick another model. With Auto off, it isn’t offered, and a project whose default is Auto starts on your default model.

With more than one Claude profile, the first chip is the profile the session runs with: the project’s own, else your default profile. Pick another for this session only. The other chips then show that profile’s defaults, where the project sets none.

While a session works in that project, Queue for later puts the prompt in Switchboard’s queue instead. Start it from the queue on your computer.

On a phone, while you type, the tiles and the chips make room: only the project’s name, the box and the buttons stay, with Start session right above the keyboard. Tap the keyboard button next to it to hide the keyboard and see them again.

On a computer or a tablet

In a wide window, such as the browser of another computer or an iPad, your sessions stay on the left, as in Switchboard. A phone held sideways keeps the phone’s layout. Prompts are rows in Needs you, with what they ask (“Allow Bash”, “a question”). New session and the ⋯ menu are at the bottom of the list. The house button next to Sessions closes the open session and shows Home on the right.

On a narrower screen, such as an iPad held upright, the sessions can fold away to leave the session the whole width: tap the button at the top left of a session, or press Command, B⌘BControl, BCtrlB. Folded, that button opens them as a drawer, as on a phone. Its Home row shows Home on the right. The button next to the computer’s name in the drawer, or Command, B⌘BControl, BCtrlB again, keeps them open on the left. Your choice is kept in this browser.

What needs you

With no session open, the right side shows what needs you: how many sessions need you, how many are working and how many finished today. Under it, every prompt is a card, the oldest first, with everything you need to answer it there: Deny, Always allow when it’s offered, and Allow for a command or an edit, the options of a question with Skip and Answer, and Keep planning and Start for a plan. Open opens its session.

Below the cards, Finished, ready to review shows the sessions that finished and you haven’t read, each with how long it takes to review, what Claude did, the tests, Changes and Open. Then each Claude profile’s full usage card, with when each window resets.

Keys

Key	What it does
Command, K⌘KControl, KCtrlK	Search your sessions and projects, and run an action. Works in the message box too.
Command, Shift, U⌘⇧UControl, Shift, UCtrlShiftU or UU	Open the next session that needs you: the ones waiting for you first, the longest waiting first, then the ones you haven’t read.
JJ and KK	Move to the next or previous card, or session in the list.
AA	Allow the card you’re on, or in a session the prompt above the message box.
DD	Deny it.
Return↩EnterEnter	Open the card you’re on.
NN	New session.
Up Arrow↑ and Down Arrow↓	Move through the files in Changes.
EscapeEsc	Close the search, a sheet or Changes, in that order.
??	Show these keys.

The letters only work when you’re not typing in a field, and never with another key held. AA does nothing when the prompt is scrolled out of view, so you never allow something you can’t see.

Microsoft Edge keeps Command, Shift, U⌘⇧UControl, Shift, UCtrlShiftU for Read aloud: use UU there.

Search and jump

Command, K⌘KControl, KCtrlK, or Search or jump to… at the top of the list, opens the search. Type a few letters of a session’s title, its project or its branch. Sessions that need you come first. Under them, New session in a project that matches, and actions: Next that needs you, New session, Go to Home, Turn on notifications, Mark all as read, Pair another computer and, with one computer, Forget this computer. Use the arrow keys and Return↩EnterEnter to pick one.

A session and its Changes

The conversation keeps a comfortable reading width in the middle. The header shows the model and the permission mode (such as Opus · Auto), Ask, and Changes with the number of files. The buttons of a prompt show their keys.

In a window at least 1280 pixels wide, Changes opens on the right instead of over the conversation: the files, the diff of the one you pick, a commit message that starts with what you asked, Ask Claude to fix… and Commit. The browser remembers whether you had it open. Ask opens in the same place; close it and Changes comes back. Esc closes either.

The browser tab

The tab’s title starts with the number of sessions that need you, such as (2) Switchboard Remote, and its icon gets a pink dot. In a session the title is the session’s, so you can find the tab among others.

The tab’s icon is your computer’s app icon, with Use it on your phone too on there. It changes as soon as you pick another one.

Notifications

Your phone can tell you when a session needs you or finishes, also when the page is closed. After you pair, a card offers Turn on (in a wide window, a strip above the sessions does). Later, open Notifications in the ⋯ menu and turn Needs you and Finished on or off. Nothing comes while Switchboard Remote is open in front of you.

On an iPhone or iPad

Notifications only work when Switchboard Remote is on your Home Screen. In Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Open it from there and turn notifications on. iPhones don’t show buttons on notifications: tap one to open the session.

A notification goes from your computer to your browser’s push service (Apple’s, Google’s, Mozilla’s or Microsoft’s), and from there to your phone. It is encrypted for your phone, so the push service can’t read it. Your computer needs to reach those services over HTTPS: behind a strict proxy, notifications may not arrive.

With more than one computer, every computer sends you notifications, and each one starts with the computer’s name, such as mystic · tideline · Allow Bash: npm publish. None of them sends any while the app is open in front of you, since the sessions of every computer are on screen. Tap a notification to open its session on the right computer. A computer with a version of Switchboard from before this one can’t send notifications next to other computers: Notifications names it, and updating Switchboard there fixes it.

Tap a notification to open its session. In Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a computer, a notification about a command or an edit also has Deny and Allow. They open Switchboard Remote, which answers once it’s connected, and says Already answered if you, or someone else, answered first.

When your phone can’t connect

A short line under the header says your phone can’t reach your computer and is reconnecting: “Can’t reach Elio’s iMac · Reconnecting…”. Tap it for Help, which says why, when your phone can tell:

• The tunnel address changed: a Cloudflare quick tunnel got a new address. Click Reconnect a paired device in Settings → Remote and scan that code, or use a tunnel whose address stays the same.
• Nothing answers: your computer is asleep or offline. Wake it, or check its network.
• The address answers, but Switchboard doesn’t: check that Switchboard is open, and that Settings → Remote shows the tunnel as running.

You chose Disconnect? Then nothing connects until you tap Connect (see Your computer’s menu).

Help also links to this page. When your phone stopped trying, the line says Stopped trying, with Try again. While it’s offline, your phone keeps showing the last list, greyed out, and the buttons that need your computer are off. It tries again by itself, and at once when you come back to the page.

Updates

The remote app comes from Switchboard’s website, so it updates without the App Store. On an iPhone, the app on your Home Screen keeps running the version it started with until iOS closes it. So it checks for a new version when you open it, each time you come back to it, and every 30 minutes while it’s open.

When there is one, a blue bar says A new version is ready. Reload loads it and brings you back to the screen you were on. Later hides the bar for an hour. Meanwhile, pulling your sessions down says Release to update and loads the new version too.

Good to know

• Your computer has to be on and Switchboard running. Sleep stops Remote until the computer wakes up.
• The phone only lists the sessions your sidebar lists, outside Archived, and can only open those.
• Messages you send from your phone show From your phone under them on the phone.
• Scrolled up in a conversation, Jump to latest takes you back down. It says New messages when something arrived below.
• The chip and the offline help use your computer’s name, which you set in System Settings → General → About → NameSettings → System → About → Rename this PC.
• Pairing is closed after five wrong attempts, until you click Pair a device again.
• Your phone keeps its key in the browser, for this site only. Someone with your unlocked phone can use Remote until you revoke it.

Related

• Answer Claude from your phoneLeave your desk while Claude works, and allow, answer or prompt it from your phone when it needs you.
• Other computersNewFollow and steer the sessions of a paired computer from Switchboard on this one, in the same sidebar, and start new sessions there.
• Notifications and soundsTurn notifications and sounds on or off, each on its own, and pick a sound for each moment.
• Ask about this sessionAsk Claude about the session in a panel next to the conversation, while it keeps working. Nothing is added to the conversation.