Cursor for iOS - Build with coding agents from anywhere
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Cursor is now available as a native iOS app in public beta, so you can build from anywhere.
Until now, developers have worked around the limits of their local machines, keeping laptops half-open and caffeinated everywhere they go.
With Cursor for iOS, you can launch always-on agents in the cloud, or control agents running on your computer from your phone. Kick them off when ideas strike, get notified when work is ready for review, and merge PRs on the go.
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Artifacts as the review surface instead of the raw diff matches what we landed on too. The thing that decides whether they actually gate: are the screenshots and logs from an independent run, or the agent narrating its own work? We had demo clips that looked green because the agent captured the happy path it just wrote, and the regression sat one screen over. Tying review to CI output like you mentioned to Prashant is the version I'd trust from a phone.
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@dipankar_sarkar if you're looking for an independent run, you could set up an automation that works like a CI check!
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So great!
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@justinmithrify fantastic to hear. Let us know if you have any feedback!
@cbrauchli A theme across the reviews seems to be that people want more visibility into which files and symbols the agent actually pulls into context on big codebases, but also a way to steer it. Any plans to expose and let users control context selection more directly ?
the part i want to try is approving agent permissions from the phone. usually a Claude Code session blocks on a prompt while i'm away from the desk and i don't notice for an hour. does iOS push a notification when an agent needs approval or do you have to open the app to check
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@omri_ben_shoham1 you'll get push notifications when the agent needs your input! You can also see Live Activities from your lock screens so you can monitor your agents without needing to open the app.
@nicolezhang that's exactly what i needed to hear, thanks. gonna give it a real try this week on a side project and see how the approval flow feels in practice
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@ayush_pal8 Cursor for iOS requires a paid plan. Hope you try it out!
Not sure why but I only see cloud session, I see zero local mac sessions and I do not get any updates about local sessions via push notification as well.
Is the app meant only for cloud sessions? and if not, what I am doing wrong, I am on the latests version of the mobile and desktop apps on my mac
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