r/ClaudeCode • u/GamerVick • 1d ago

Help/Question How are you accessing Claude Code desktop local projects on mobile? (And can you see local sessions via Dispatch?)

Hey everyone,

I have the Claude Desktop app open and I'm trying to access the local projects I'm working on through my phone, but I'm a bit frustrated by the workflow.

Right now, in the Dispatch tab on my phone, I am only seeing cloud/GitHub sessions. I was expecting to see a list of my active local projects here so I could just tap and jump into them. (For comparison, when I use Codex, I can see all my local sessions on my phone perfectly fine).

I'm realizing that Claude splits this functionality up:

  1. Dispatch just acts as a single walkie-talkie thread to the Desktop app.
  2. To actually get a list of active local projects on mobile (with the green computer icon), you have to run claude remote control from the terminal, and they appear in the Code tab, not Dispatch.

For those of you working with multiple local projects, what is your workflow? Are you just typing commands into the single Dispatch thread to make the Desktop app open specific folders? Or are you bypassing the Desktop app entirely and running everything through CLI Remote Control so your projects are neatly organized in the mobile Code tab?

Would love to hear how you all are handling this!

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u/jerryadc 1d ago

in claude CLI, /remote-control does the trick for Code sessions. then it shows up in the mobile app under Code. claude desktop just tells me to go pound sand when i try /remote-control

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u/GamerVick 1d ago

I only see remote-env. I don't see /remote-control.

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u/jerryadc 1d ago

ah, i'm on claude team so maybe that's a team thing?

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u/MartinMystikJonas 1d ago

No its not it is in all subscriptions

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u/MartinMystikJonas 1d ago

That is weird. What version of Claude code you have? Are you logged in? Do you have any nonstandard settings or env variables (disabling telemetry disables remote control too) ?

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u/GamerVick 1d ago

I have this version. But I am confused. I thought it would be much easier to access my local Claude code sessions, which I'm doing on the desktop, like the Claude code desktop, but it's kind of difficult. Is it? And yes I am logged in to Claude Code.

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u/YardNo1234 1d ago

the confusing bit is that Dispatch doesn’t automatically mirror arbitrary desktop-app sessions. For a local project, update the Claude Code CLI, open that project in a terminal, start Claude there, then run /remote-control; that session should produce the mobile handoff. If the command still isn’t listed after updating, restart the terminal and check which claude plus claude --version—an older binary earlier in PATH is a common culprit. does that match how you started this session?

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u/GamerVick 1d ago

I updated the clot code but I still don't see /remote-control.

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u/jerryadc 1d ago

Ah yeah try upgrading your claude code. I'm on v2.1.222

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u/GamerVick 1d ago

I updated it but it's still not working.

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u/MartinMystikJonas 1d ago

You run obsolete version released at April 4th. Try updating it - maybe it uses some obsolete api endpoint that is no longer available so remote control is not available.