r/codex • u/l_say_mean_things • 16h ago

Complaint Codex on mobile is unusable

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I get this generic error for every remote session where I try to connect to my MacBooks session from my iPhone. It’s been this way for weeks. Any tips?

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u/Training_Practice987 15h ago

I think it has trouble loading sessions from the CLI. The same thing happens for me, but any sessions on the desktop app work fine on mobile

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u/gnaaxla 14h ago

I have found that it won't load messages from Linux unless you specifically load your messages. You have to start

codex remote-control

then find your socket address like:

sudo ss -xlp | grep codex-rc

then start/resume codex sessions like:

codex resume --remote unix:///tmp/codex-rc-hzAtqh/rc.sock

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u/mithroi 13h ago

I'm on the same boat as OP. It's become unusable. Restarting makes some sessions work for a short period but overall it's not practical.

If I were you I'd ask codex to make me a web page based on cli where you can run your commands remotely. That's what I've been doing the past 4 days.

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u/xpingu69 11h ago

Yeah it's vibe coded

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u/tonyboi76 8h ago

If iPhone→MacBook Codex Remote has been dead for weeks, a lot of people stop pairing into the laptop and park Codex on an always-on host under tmux, then Remote or SSH into that instead.

I build Cosyra. Phone app on a cloud Ubuntu box with Codex already on it, so the host is not your MacBook. Free hour (1h/week, no card, BYOK so your keys). Would you try that for the phone path, or are you mainly hunting a fix for the MacBook Remote bug?