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Can Claude Code control my iPhone?

Give Claude Code control of your iPhone

Anything you can do on your iPhone, Claude Code can now do for you. Give it your own apps on your own iPhone, and it taps, swipes and types its way through them from your Mac while you watch. Zeptap is the Mac app that makes the connection; nothing gets installed on the phone.

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What Claude Code can do with your iPhone

Hand Claude Code a phone and it can run your accounts, answer your customers, test your app and clear your errands, on one iPhone or five at once.

Run all your social accounts from one Mac

Connect up to five iPhones, each signed in to several Instagram and TikTok accounts, and Claude Code can work 20–30 accounts for you: warming up new ones, engaging in their niche, finding creators and researching what’s working.

Try:

Across all five phones, warm up our 12 new TikTok accounts, each in its own niche, then tell me which ones already have the right For You page.

Find 15 clean-beauty creators under 100k followers who posted this week, and draft a collab DM to each from @glowlab.

Scroll 50 TikToks under #studytok, pull the 5 hooks that keep going viral and turn them into 15-second scripts that demo our app.

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It’s launch day: post our App Store link as a Reel on @focusly, a TikTok on @focusly.app and a Story on my own account, each with its own caption.

From @runclubnyc, find 10 recent #marathontraining posts where a coach’s tip would help and leave one useful comment on each.

Reply to every comment, DM and customer

Claude Code reads the comments and conversations across your accounts, works out what each person wants and answers them on WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok.

Try:

Go through every brand account on these phones, answer the comments asking about price, sizing or shipping, and DM the product link to anyone who asked for it.

Reply to this week’s App Store reviews in App Store Connect: thank the happy ones and tell bug reporters which build fixes their issue.

Find every customer who asked a question this week and never heard back (WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, TikTok comments) and reply to each one.

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Read this week’s comments on @competitor’s posts and list the complaints we could answer in our next Reel.

Turn the 10 questions we got most in DMs this month into saved replies, use them to clear today’s inbox, then add them as an FAQ screen in our app.

More ideas: Claude Code for Instagram accounts

Test your iOS app like your users will, before they find the bugs

Claude Code uses your app on real iPhones the way people do (signed in, interrupted, impatient) and shows you what stands between a download and a paying user: confusing onboarding, broken edge cases, App Review red flags and screens an AI agent can’t use. Its iOS Simulator pane can’t reach a physical iPhone; Zeptap gives it yours.

Try:

Install our newest TestFlight build and go from first launch to the paywall as a new user. Count the taps and tell me where a real person would give up.

Install our top competitor from the App Store, go through its onboarding and paywall, and compare every step with ours.

Before I submit to App Review, check our app for account deletion, Restore Purchases on the paywall and a working privacy policy link.

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A 1-star review says the app freezes when uploading a photo. Reproduce it on my iPhone, find the cause in the repo and write the fix.

Play three users (a first-timer, someone who forgot their password and someone who says no to notifications) and report where each gets stuck.

Go through our sign-up and checkout as an AI agent would and list every screen where you couldn’t tell what to tap.

Send a test push from our staging server, tap it on my iPhone and check it opens the right screen. Then do the same for each Universal Link.

Run sign-up on my iPhone 13 and iPhone 16, then again with the biggest text size and Dark Mode. List what breaks.

More ideas: Test iOS apps on a real iPhone · Test the iOS app Claude Code built on your iPhone

Get one task done across several apps

Claude Code moves between apps the way you do: it takes what it needs from one and finishes the job in another, from a single request.

Try:

Open my latest Hinge chat, work out what they’re into, find three date spots between us on Google Maps and suggest a time that’s free on my Calendar.

Grab the video and caption the client approved in our WhatsApp group and post it as an Instagram Reel.

Find the restaurant in my latest screenshot, check OpenTable for a table for 4 on Friday and send the booking to the group chat.

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Find my photos with Maya from Lisbon and send her the best five on WhatsApp.

Find the bug a beta tester sent me on WhatsApp, reproduce it on my iPhone with their steps, fix it and tell them which build will have the fix.

Find my flight confirmation in Gmail, add the flight to my Calendar and text my mom the landing time.

Order, shop and book in your apps

Claude Code shops across the apps you’re already signed in to, comparing prices, using your saved addresses and past orders, and booking the best option.

Try:

Check Amazon, Walmart and Target for the 6 things on my shopping list, find the best price for each and add them to the cheapest cart.

Reorder my usual Chipotle bowl on DoorDash (or Uber Eats if it’s cheaper) and stop at checkout.

Rebuild last week’s Instacart order from Costco, swap anything that’s out of stock and schedule it for Saturday morning.

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Find a table for 2 at 7:30 on Friday on OpenTable or Resy and book the best-reviewed one.

Price an Uber and a Lyft from home to SFO for 6 am tomorrow and book the cheaper one.

Find a USB-C to Lightning cable and a MagSafe stand for our test iPhones on Amazon, Walmart and Target, and add the cheapest of each to one cart.

Organize and clean up your iPhone

Claude Code can change the phone itself: your photos, Home Screen, Focus modes, notifications and settings.

Try:

Go through my photos, gather the screenshots, duplicates and blurry shots into a “Delete?” album and tell me how much space I’d free up.

Find every subscription in my App Store settings, flag the ones I haven’t opened this month and tell me what I’d save by cancelling.

Clean up my Home Screen: work apps on page one, games and social on the last page. Don’t delete anything.

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Turn my spare iPhone into a test device: TestFlight, our app and five competitor apps on page one, Do Not Disturb on and Auto-Lock off.

Turn off notifications for every app I haven’t opened in two weeks, but keep TestFlight and App Store Connect.

Nothing to install. Nothing to hand over.

  • No Xcode. No paid Apple Developer account. No jailbreak

    Nothing goes on your iPhone: Zeptap works over a USB cable and Bluetooth.

  • Your passcode never leaves your Mac

    It’s stored in your Mac’s Keychain, and Claude Code never sees it.

  • Your screen never touches Zeptap’s servers

    No Zeptap account, no relay: what’s on screen goes only to Anthropic, under your own Claude plan.

  • You stay in charge

    Watch every tap from your Mac, stop any time, and have Claude Code check with you before it sends, posts or buys.

Connect Claude Code to your iPhone in minutes

  1. Download Zeptap for your Mac (macOS 14 or later).

  2. Plug in your iPhone and pair it over Bluetooth. Zeptap walks you through it.

  3. Add Zeptap to Claude Code: one command, one click, or a file in your repo.

Add Zeptap with claude mcp add

Zeptap runs on your Mac as a local MCP server that gives Claude Code your iPhone. Run this once in your terminal, then start a new Claude Code session:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user zeptap http://127.0.0.1:47801/mcp

Prefer one click? In Zeptap, open Settings › Connectors and click Add next to Claude Code.

To share it with everyone on a project, add this .mcp.json to the repo root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zeptap": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:47801/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Use Claude Code in the Zeptap app

Zeptap’s built-in chat runs on Claude Code. In Settings › Agents, Zeptap installs Claude Code and signs you in with your Claude Pro or Max plan. Then press ⌘L to chat (no extra AI subscription).

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Claude Code and your iPhone

Can Claude Code control my iPhone?

Yes. Claude Code can take control of your iPhone. With Zeptap running on your Mac, Claude Code sees your iPhone’s screen and taps, swipes and types in your apps, just as you would. You decide what it does, watch every step and can stop it at any time.

Which Claude Code surfaces can control my iPhone?
Where you run Claude Code Can it use your iPhone?
Claude Code in your Mac’s terminal Yes, through Zeptap’s MCP server
Claude Code in VS Code or JetBrains Yes, through Zeptap’s MCP server
Claude desktop app, Code tab (local sessions) Yes, through Zeptap’s MCP server
Claude Code in the Zeptap app (your Claude plan) Yes
Claude Code on the web, or a cloud session in the Claude desktop app No. It runs in Anthropic’s cloud, away from your Mac
How do I connect Claude Code to my iPhone with claude mcp add?

Run claude mcp add --transport http --scope user zeptap http://127.0.0.1:47801/mcp, then start a new Claude Code session. Or click Add next to Claude Code in Zeptap’s Settings › Connectors. The MCP setup reference has the details.

Can I use Claude Code on my Claude Pro or Max plan?

Yes, Claude Code is included in both Claude Pro and Max, and Zeptap’s built-in chat runs on it. Zeptap doesn’t sell AI credits.

Does Claude Code need iPhone Mirroring to control my iPhone?

No, Zeptap doesn’t use iPhone Mirroring. It reads the screen over USB and taps and types as a Bluetooth keyboard and pointer, which is how it can run up to five iPhones at once, where Mirroring handles one. Compare iPhone Mirroring and Zeptap.

Can Claude Code test my app on a real iPhone instead of the Simulator?

Yes, Zeptap gives Claude Code your real iPhone, which its iOS Simulator pane can’t control. Keep the Simulator for fast build loops, then have Claude Code check push notifications, real sign-ins, the camera and your actual iPhone models.

Does Claude Code install my build on the iPhone?

Yes, Claude Code installs builds from TestFlight: it opens TestFlight, taps Install on the newest build and tests it like a user. Builds outside TestFlight still go on through Xcode.

Is this the same as Claude Code Remote Control?

No, Zeptap works the other way round from Remote Control. Remote Control lets you drive Claude Code from your phone; with Zeptap, Claude Code drives your iPhone, opening your apps and tapping through them.

Your iPhone and Mac

Which iPhones work with Zeptap?

Every iPhone on iOS 15 or later works with Zeptap, including models with a Home button, like iPhone SE and iPhone 8, and every Face ID iPhone. You don’t need a new phone, and nothing gets installed on it.

What do I need on my Mac?

A Mac on macOS 14 or later with Bluetooth, and a USB cable for your iPhone. That’s all: no Xcode, no Apple Developer account, no jailbreak and no extra hardware.

How does Zeptap connect to my iPhone?

Zeptap reads your iPhone’s screen over the USB cable and taps, swipes and types as a Bluetooth keyboard and pointer, through the iPhone’s built-in AssistiveTouch. Zeptap turns AssistiveTouch on for you during setup, so there’s no app to install on the phone.

Can Claude Code unlock my iPhone?

Yes, if you turn it on. Zeptap saves your passcode in your Mac’s Keychain and types it on the lock screen itself (on Face ID and Home-button iPhones alike), so Claude Code never sees it. Each unlock is a single attempt, so a wrong code can’t lock you out.

Does my iPhone need to stay plugged in?

Yes. Your iPhone stays connected to your Mac by USB cable and paired over Bluetooth while Claude Code works. With Lifetime Plus you can plug in up to five iPhones and run them all at once.

Does Zeptap work with Windows or Android?

No. Zeptap is a Mac app for iPhone: it runs on macOS and controls iPhones. Windows PCs and Android phones aren’t supported.

Does Zeptap need Wi-Fi or an internet connection?

Zeptap’s control of your iPhone is local, over the USB cable and Bluetooth on your Mac. Claude Code itself needs an internet connection to reach Anthropic, just as it does in any other app.

What Claude Code can do

Does Claude Code work with any app on my iPhone?

Yes. App Store apps, TestFlight builds, Messages, Settings, Safari, Photos: if you can tap it on your iPhone, Claude Code can too.

Can Claude Code send text messages on my iPhone?

Yes. Claude Code can open Messages or WhatsApp, find the right chat, write your message and send it, or hold it so you can check it first.

Can Claude Code post on Instagram for me?

Yes. Claude Code can prepare and publish posts, Reels and Stories in the Instagram app (media, caption and link sticker) on one account or across all of them.

Can Claude Code manage 20+ Instagram and TikTok accounts?

Yes. With Lifetime Plus ($149), Claude Code works on up to five iPhones from one Mac at once. Each iPhone can hold several accounts (Instagram lets you stay signed in to up to 10), so one Claude Code session can run 20–30 accounts.

Can Claude Code order food or buy things for me?

Yes. Claude Code can compare Amazon, Walmart and Target, rebuild your usual DoorDash or Uber Eats order, and check out with the addresses and payment already in your apps, or stop at checkout so you can confirm.

Privacy and safety

Can I watch what Claude Code is doing on my iPhone?

Yes. Zeptap shows your iPhone’s screen live on your Mac, so you see every tap, swipe and keystroke as it happens and can stop Claude Code at any moment.

Where do my screenshots go when Claude Code uses my iPhone?

Only to Anthropic, through Claude Code, under your Claude plan. Never to a Zeptap server. Zeptap captures the screen on your Mac and hands it straight to the agent you use.

Is it safe to give Claude Code access to my iPhone?

Zeptap is built so you stay in charge: there’s no Zeptap account or cloud, your passcode never leaves your Mac, and you watch every step. Ask Claude Code to check with you before it sends, posts or buys, and tell it which apps to leave alone. Zeptap’s safety and privacy details.

Pricing

How much does Zeptap cost?

Zeptap costs $25 a month or $99 once for one iPhone, or $149 once for up to five iPhones. Your Claude plan stays separate. See Zeptap pricing.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. Your first hour of live use is free: download Zeptap, connect your iPhone and try any of the prompts above before you pay.

What do I get with a lifetime license?

A one-time payment ($99 for one iPhone or $149 for up to five) with every Zeptap update included and use on up to three Macs. No renewals.

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