Android app: Code tab empty while claude.ai/code web shows all sessions (same account)

Summary

The Code tab in the Claude Android app shows no sessions at all ("totally empty"), while claude.ai/code in a web browser shows all sessions correctly for the same account at the same time. Local Claude Code sessions on the paired Mac are running, registered, and visible on the web — only the Android app's Code tab is blank.

Environment

• Desktop: Claude desktop app on macOS (Darwin 25.5.0), bundled Claude Code runtime 2.1.197 (auto-updated from 2.1.195 on 2026-07-02)
• CLI: claude 2.1.195 (terminal sessions)
• Phone: Claude app on Android
• Settings on the Mac: remoteControlAtStartup: true, autoUploadSessions: true (user settings.json), desktop ccRemoteControlDefaultEnabled: true. No managed settings, no disableRemoteControl.

Timeline

• Before 2026-07-02: sessions appeared on the phone's Code tab normally.
• 2026-07-02 evening: desktop app restarted and auto-updated 2.1.195 → 2.1.197. Phone's Code tab has been empty since, across multiple desktop restarts and fresh sessions.
• 2026-07-03: verified server side is healthy (details below); Android app still shows an empty Code tab.

Evidence that publishing works (so the break is app-side)

1. ~15 live local sessions on the Mac (desktop-spawned + terminal), several started fresh after the settings above were set.
2. The desktop's own session registry lists them all (via session-management tooling).
3. claude.ai/code in Chrome (same account) lists the same sessions in the sidebar — checked side by side while the Android Code tab showed nothing.
4. status.claude.com: no incidents.
5. A cloud-bridged session (cse_…) reconnects fine after every desktop restart; desktop log shows its sessions-bridge transport attaching normally.

Expected

Android app Code tab shows the same session list as claude.ai/code on the web.

Actual

Android Code tab is completely empty; web view of the same account shows all sessions.

Notes

• Possibly correlated with the new session/sidebar architecture that shipped around desktop 2.1.19x ("epitaxy" sidebar, local_* session IDs) — the Android app may be querying an older endpoint that no longer returns these sessions.
• Happy to provide logs or run diagnostics on request.