Anthropic Brings Claude Cowork to Mobile, Agent Takes On Office Work

Starting July 7, 2026, Anthropic has made Claude Cowork available on phones and in the web browser, expanding a tool that had previously worked only as a desktop program. A task assigned on a computer can now be tracked and picked up on a phone, even after the laptop has been shut down.

Claude Cowork debuted as a desktop app in January 2026, and Anthropic has since positioned it as the counterpart to Claude Code, but for office tasks rather than programming ones. The agent is designed to ask the user for a decision only when truly necessary, handling the rest of the work on its own in the background.

One Job, Many Screens

The new feature is the ability to move seamlessly between devices. A user can assign a task in the morning from a computer at the office, get a progress notification on their phone on the way to a meeting, and pick up the finished document that evening from anywhere. Anthropic also merged chat and Cowork into a single tab on web and desktop, with a shared sidebar, search, and space for projects.

Schedule Monday's client meeting prep for 6 a.m.: Claude goes through email threads, transcripts, and the latest news, builds a briefing document, and leaves a ready-to-send summary email without sending it - Anthropic, description of the Claude Cowork feature

What the Usage Data Shows

Anthropic's internal study from May 2026, covering 1.2 million sessions across more than 600,000 organizations, shows that most tasks today involve routine business operations, such as reports and checklists, rather than spectacular, fully autonomous projects. Content creation, meaning drafts of text and slides, accounts for roughly one in six use cases, while coding makes up a minority of sessions, even though the entire agent category was born out of coding.

A Response to OpenAI's Move

The expansion of Cowork to mobile coincides with the launch of OpenAI's competing ChatGPT Work, built on the new GPT-5.6 model. OpenAI had already broadened Codex's scope beyond coding, adding report generation, spreadsheets, and data analysis. Both companies are now fighting for the same thing: not a single chatbot query, but a permanent place for the agent in the daily office work of corporate clients.

For Polish companies and teams already using the Claude Max plan, the expansion to phones marks a real change in how they work with the agent, since until now a computer had to stay powered on for a task to finish. Now an assignment survives the laptop being closed and completes on Anthropic's servers regardless of whether any of the user's devices are online at that moment.

The rollout remains limited for now to the most expensive Max plan, so a broader assessment of the tool will only be possible once it reaches other subscription tiers. Anthropic has said the doubled usage limits will last through August 5, suggesting the company wants to gather as much data as possible during that window on how Cowork is actually used away from the desk.

Sources: Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web (techcrunch.com), Claude Cowork AI Agent Launches as Anthropic Expands AI Assistant to Cloud and Mobile (fingerlakes1.com), Anthropic Launches Mobile Access for Claude Cowork (pymnts.com)