Anthropic Launches Mobile Access for Claude Cowork

Anthropic has begun making its agentic experience, Claude Cowork, available on mobile and web in beta for members of its Max plan and expects to expand that access to other plans.

Previously available only as a desktop app, Cowork will now be able to be accessed via phone, to continue working in the background when a device is offline, and seek decisions from the user via phone, Anthropic said in a Tuesday (July 7) blog post.

Users can now access Cowork and its sessions and files from any device, according to the post.

“Everyone asks AI for answers. Handing it the work is different, and people keep giving Claude bigger jobs,” Anthropic said in the post. “Work like that doesn’t fit in one sitting. It accumulates overnight, between meetings, on the train. Until today, Cowork lived on your laptop, so the work stopped when you stepped away. Now it doesn’t.”

Anthropic also said in the post that it has found that more than 90% of the work Claude Cowork does is not software development, but everyday knowledge work. About half of all usage of Cowork has to do with business operations or content creation, per the post.

Examples include “reconciling the quarter’s spend and drafting the variance memo, turning a folder of contracts into a renewals tracker with the risks flagged, [and] building tomorrow’s client deck from call transcripts and pipeline data.”

When Anthropic unveiled Cowork in January as a preview feature inside its Claude AI platform, PYMNTS reported that it lets the model function not just as a reactive conversational tool but as a hands-on collaborator across a user’s desktop.

The agentic experience enables Claude to read files, organize folders, draft documents and carry out multistep tasks with user consent.

PYMNTS Intelligence found that among AI tools, Claude stands out for its perceived workplace value.

Among workers who use Claude, 81% say AI is either essential to their job or significantly enhances their productivity. That figure ranks the tool above five others that were included in the survey, including Perplexity, Meta AI, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.