Control Claude on Your Computer From Your Phone (Dispatch Mode)

You can now control Claude on your computer from your phone. At the gym, in the car, standing in line pretending to check email. Anywhere.

It's called dispatch mode, and it turns your phone into a remote control for Cowork on your desktop. You open the Claude app on your phone, tap dispatch, and type a command. Claude runs it on your computer at home. (Your laptop is now the employee that works from your office while you don't.)

Here's the 40-second version:

What You Can Actually Do With It

Need to grab a file from your desktop and upload it to Google Drive? Send the dispatch. Want to trigger your morning briefing skill early because your day got moved up? Send it. Your editor needs the latest video file? Tell Claude to find it and share it.

You can even trigger full skills from dispatch. Every workflow you've built is now runnable from your pocket: content research, report generation, file organization.

Everything runs on your desktop. You're just controlling it from your pocket.

There's a unified conversation view, so you can see dispatch tasks from both your phone and your computer. Nothing gets lost between devices.

Why This Matters More Than It Sounds

Most AI mobile apps are just chat on a smaller screen. Dispatch is different. It's not "Claude on your phone." It's your phone commanding the full Cowork setup on your desktop: your files, your skills, your connectors, your scheduled tasks. The phone is the remote. The desktop is the engine.

If you're someone who's away from your desk a lot, this is a massive unlock. The work no longer waits for you to get back.

Next time you're out and remember something you need done, don't write a reminder to do it later. Dispatch it and let it be done before you're home. Try it once and you're hooked.