Claude Mobile

Claude has native apps for iOS and Android. The mobile experience covers the core use cases — conversations, Projects, and file sharing — but some features are web-only. Knowing what works on mobile (and what doesn't) helps you use it effectively on the go.

What You Can Do on Mobile

Voice Input

The Claude mobile app supports voice input in two ways:

• Keyboard dictation: Use the microphone button on the iOS or Android keyboard to dictate your message. This is the most reliable method — the text is transcribed and sent as a normal text message.
• In-app voice (where available): Some builds include a dedicated voice input button that uses the device's speech recognition to compose your message before sending.

Note: Claude on mobile does not offer conversational audio output (text-to-speech of Claude's responses) by default — responses are displayed as text. For a voice conversation experience, Claude's voice feature is available on select plans and regions.

Camera and Image Input

The mobile app makes it easy to photograph documents, whiteboards, screenshots, or products and ask Claude about them:

• Tap the attachment icon → take a photo or choose from the camera roll
• Claude can read text in photos (OCR), describe images, and answer questions about image content
• Multiple images can be attached to a single message

This makes the mobile app particularly useful for: photographing handwritten notes and asking Claude to transcribe or summarise them, snapping receipts or invoices for extraction, or showing Claude a diagram and asking it to explain.

Staying in Sync with Web

Claude.ai mobile and web share the same account and conversation history — you can start a conversation on mobile and continue it on desktop, or vice versa. Projects are also synced. The only consideration:

• Conversations started in a Project on web are accessible in the same Project on mobile
• There's no offline mode — the app requires an internet connection for all interactions
• Push notifications can alert you when Claude finishes a long response (useful for complex tasks that take a few seconds)

Tips for Mobile Use

• Use dictation for longer prompts: Typing a detailed prompt on a phone keyboard is tedious. Switch to voice dictation for anything more than a sentence or two.
• Use the share sheet: On both iOS and Android, you can share content from other apps (articles, PDFs, web pages) directly to Claude via the system share sheet — no need to copy-paste.
• Pin frequently-used Projects: Star or pin your most-used Projects in the sidebar so they're immediately accessible on mobile.
• For code-heavy work, switch to desktop: If you need to run, iterate on, or review code in Artifacts, the desktop browser experience is significantly better.

Checklist: Do You Understand This?

• Claude mobile supports conversations, Projects, image uploads, file sharing, and model switching
• Code execution inside Artifacts, Claude Code, and bulk knowledge base uploads are web/desktop only
• Voice input works via keyboard dictation (most reliable) and in-app voice where available
• Mobile and web share the same account, conversations, and Projects — fully synced
• Use the system share sheet to send content from other apps to Claude without copy-pasting