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Let Claude Desktop use your iPhone.

Add Spatia to Claude Desktop and it can see your iPhone's screen and tap, type and scroll for you, through iPhone Mirroring. One click in the setup assistant, or the exact config, with nothing to install on the phone.

The Claude app for Mac: chat with Claude, and it uses your iPhone when it needs to.

What you need

A Mac on macOS 15 Sequoia or later, with Claude Desktop installed.
An iPhone on iOS 18 or later, on the same Apple Account, nearby, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on.
Spatia, from the home page (free while it's in beta), moved to your Applications folder.

Set it up

Allow access. Open Spatia. Its setup assistant asks for Accessibility (to tap and type) and Screen Recording (to see the phone). They're granted to Spatia itself, not to Claude Desktop.
Connect your iPhone. Pair iPhone Mirroring once, with the phone locked and nearby. From then on Spatia connects for you.
Add it to Claude Desktop. In the setup assistant, click Add next to Claude Desktop. Or add it yourself:
claude_desktop_config.json
```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "iphone": {
      "command": "/Applications/Spatia.app/Contents/MacOS/iphone-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```
It goes in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. The server is the iphone-mcp executable inside Spatia.app; nothing else is installed.
Quit and reopen Claude to load it.
Just ask. Any chat in the Claude app. Claude asks before it sends, buys, posts or deletes.

Try asking

“Is it going to rain this afternoon? Check Weather on my iPhone.”
“Tell the dinner group on WhatsApp I'm running ten minutes late.”
“Which of Uber, Bolt or Yandex Go is cheapest to get me home right now?”
“Turn on Low Power Mode and Do Not Disturb.”

How it works in Claude Desktop

Spatia is a local MCP server with 27 tools: Claude Desktop reads the iPhone's screen as words with tap points, so it taps on recognised text instead of guessing at pixels, and types exact text in any language. Every action can verify itself in the same call. The full list is in the developer section; how it compares with computer use, Appium and the open-source bridges is on the comparison page.

You stay in control: by default it asks before anything that sends, buys, posts or deletes, it never types a password, you can block apps by name, and the pause switch in the menu bar stops every tool at once. Picking up your iPhone stops it too.

Questions

Do I need to install anything on my iPhone to use it from Claude Desktop?

No. Spatia runs entirely on your Mac, through iPhone Mirroring. There's no app, profile or cable on the phone.

Where does Claude Desktop keep the Spatia config?

In ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. Spatia's setup assistant writes it for you and backs up the file first; the snippet above is exactly what it adds.

What can Claude Desktop do on my iPhone?

Open apps, read the screen as text, tap, type, scroll, swipe and take screenshots: 27 tools in all. It asks before anything that sends, buys, posts or deletes, never types a password, and you can pause it from the menu bar.