Remote Control: iPhone app hangs with no content when plan is pending approval on desktop

Status Fixed / completed

Reported on v2.1.74

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Activity 5 comments · opened Mar 13, 2026 · closed Apr 1, 2026

Describe the bug

When Claude Code is running in plan mode on desktop (macOS) and a plan is pending user approval, switching to the session via Remote Control on iPhone causes the iPhone app to hang indefinitely. The Claude animation spins but no plan content is shown and no approval options appear. The desktop terminal and claude.ai web view both display the plan and approval controls correctly.

Steps to reproduce

Start a Claude Code session on macOS in plan mode
Give Claude a task — it generates a plan and waits for approval
Open the same session via Remote Control on iPhone
Observe: the iPhone app shows only a spinning Claude animation — no plan text, no approve/decline options

Expected behaviour

The iPhone app should display the full plan content and approval options (accept / accept with auto-approve edits / decline), as seen in the desktop terminal and web view.

Actual behaviour

The iPhone app hangs with a spinning Claude animation (rendered as *). No plan content and no approval controls are rendered. The session cannot be actioned from mobile.

Screenshots

_(See attached — mobile, web, and terminal views of the same session)_

iPhone (Remote Control): Only a spinning indicator, no plan content, no controls.

Web (claude.ai): "Review Claude's plan" modal displays correctly with full plan text and approve/decline buttons.

Terminal: Full plan text and accept/decline options displayed correctly.

Environment

Desktop: macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
Mobile: iPhone, iOS 26.2
Claude Code version: 2.1.74

Additional context

This is different from the now-closed #15686 (EnterPlanMode hangs on iOS — no permission prompt support). That issue described iOS having no permission prompt support at all. This issue is specific to Remote Control failing to surface plan content when a plan is awaiting approval.

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5 Comments

codeananda · 5 months ago

Normal terminal / CLI
<img width="1042" height="977" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f4441a31-fc2b-48e0-a57f-5f8d12feb0a0" />

Claude Desktop Code Tab working properly
<img width="930" height="790" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bdfec218-6e95-4101-be1f-5877a7cd2bbf" />

Mobile hanging

github-actions[bot] · 5 months ago

Found 1 possible duplicate issue:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/33625

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codeananda · 5 months ago

Not a duplicate. These are related but distinct issues:

#33625 is about AskUserQuestion tool calls not rendering on mobile Remote Control — no question text, no answer UI
This issue (#33967) is about plan approval not rendering on mobile Remote Control — no plan content, no approve/decline controls

Both involve mobile Remote Control failing to surface interactive UI, but they affect different components (AskUserQuestion vs EnterPlanMode). The reproduction steps, affected UI elements, and likely underlying code paths are all different.

mixtli · 5 months ago

I am having the same issue, making claude remote completely unusable.

github-actions[bot] · 4 months ago

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