Remote Control sessions disappear from sidebar after CLI exits (v2.1.89 regression)

Status Fixed / completed

Reported on v2.1.90

Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — claude[bot]

Activity 4 comments · opened Apr 2, 2026 · closed Apr 18, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (claude[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Description

Remote Control sessions no longer persist in the sidebar (desktop app, iOS, web "Code" section) after the CLI process exits. Sessions appear in the sidebar while the CLI is running, but vanish once it ends.

This is a regression — sessions used to remain visible in the sidebar after ending, allowing review across devices.

When it broke

Monday March 30 evening (GMT). Coincides with v2.1.89 release. Worked correctly on v2.1.87 and earlier.

Reproduction

Start a Claude Code CLI session with claude --name remote-session (or any remote-control session)
Open claude.ai or the desktop/iOS app — session appears in the "Code" section sidebar
End the CLI session (kill the process or /exit)
Session immediately disappears from the sidebar on all devices

Expected behavior

Session should remain in the sidebar after the CLI exits, as it did prior to v2.1.89.

Environment

CLI version: 2.1.90
macOS (Darwin 25.4.0)
Affects: Desktop app, iOS app, and claude.ai web — all in the "Code" section
Local JSONL transcript files are intact — the issue is purely cloud-side/sidebar indexing

Possibly related

The v2.1.89/v2.1.90 changelog mentions: "Changed --resume picker to no longer show sessions created by claude -p or SDK invocations." Remote-control sessions may now be incorrectly classified and filtered out.

Related issues

#32651 — Remote Control sessions archived and unviewable after idle
#30922 — Cloud sessions orphaned, no desktop/mobile visibility
#28402 — Cannot reconnect to Remote Control sessions after navigating away

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] · 6 months ago

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matclothier · 6 months ago

This is not a duplicate of the flagged issues:

#28402 (Feb 25) — about not being able to reconnect to active sessions. My issue is about ended sessions disappearing from history.
#30922 (Mar 5) — about claude --remote cloud sessions not appearing at all. My sessions appear fine during use, then vanish after the CLI exits.
#31487 (Mar 6) — about stale ghost sessions and active sessions not displaying. Different symptom.

This is a new regression introduced in v2.1.89 (March 31). All three flagged issues predate v2.1.89 by weeks. Sessions persisted correctly in the sidebar after CLI exit on v2.1.87 and earlier — something changed in the v2.1.89/v2.1.90 release that broke cloud-side session persistence specifically for ended sessions.

claude[bot] contributor · 6 months ago

This issue was fixed as of version 2.1.113.

github-actions[bot] · 5 months ago

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