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When Remote Control is active in a Claude Code terminal session, the mobile side can see the conversation in real-time but messages sent from mobile never reach the terminal session. It's read-only in practice.

Root Cause

When Remote Control is active in a Claude Code terminal session, the mobile side can see the conversation in real-time but messages sent from mobile never reach the terminal session. It's read-only in practice.

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Summary

When Remote Control is active in a Claude Code terminal session, the mobile side can see the conversation in real-time but messages sent from mobile never reach the terminal session. It's read-only in practice.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Enable Remote Control in a Claude Code terminal session (/remote-control)
  2. Open the active session on a mobile device (tested: Claude iOS app and mobile browser)
  3. Observe that the terminal session output is visible on mobile
  4. Attempt to send a message from the mobile side — message does not go through

Expected behavior

Messages sent from mobile should be received by the terminal session (two-way control).

Actual behavior

Mobile is effectively read-only. Sent messages are not received by the terminal.

Environment

  • Claude Code version: latest (up to date as of 2026-05-25)
  • Terminal OS: Windows 11 Pro
  • Mobile: iOS, tested both native Claude app and mobile Safari/Chrome browser
  • Account: same account on both terminal and mobile
  • remoteControlAtStartup: true in settings.json

Attempted fixes

  • Uninstalled and reinstalled the mobile app
  • Tried mobile browser instead of app
  • Verified same account on both devices
  • Verified Claude Code is up to date

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Messages sent from mobile should be received by the terminal session (two-way control).

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