[BUG] Cowork tab missing from Claude Desktop on macOS.
Status Open
Maintainer reply None cached
Workaround ✓ Mentioned in thread ↓
Activity 6 comments · opened Jul 23, 2026
Preflight Checklist
- [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
- [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
- [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code
What's Wrong?
Context: I'm trying to use Dispatch from the mobile app to connect to a Cowork session on desktop, but pairing fails because the Cowork tab doesn't exist at all in the desktop app to begin with.
What Should Happen?
Cowork tab have to be available
Error Messages/Logs
Cowork appears correctly in the Claude web app (claude.ai) with the same account, so this is not an account/plan activation issue — it's isolated to the desktop app.Steps to Reproduce
Troubleshooting already completed (all unsuccessful):
Updated to the latest available Claude Desktop version
Full app restart (Quit + relaunch, not just closing the window)
Signed out and signed back in
Complete uninstall, including manual deletion of ~/Library/Application Support/Claude, followed by a clean reinstall from claude.com/download
Claude Model
Sonnet (default)
Is this a regression?
I don't know
Last Working Version
1.24012.1
Claude Code Version
1.24012.1 (adcae)
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
macOS
Terminal/Shell
Terminal.app (macOS)
Additional Information
_No response_
Showing cached comments. Read the full discussion on GitHub ↗
5 Comments
Version: 1.24012.9 (03c61d), macOS
Plan: Pro
Cowork tab is absent from Claude Desktop's top nav (only Chat and Code); Cowork settings still appear/toggle normally in Desktop Settings. Confirmed the runtime is missing from the app bundle:
ls /Applications/Claude.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/ | grep -i cowork
Returns nothing.
Pro plan is entitled to Cowork on desktop per the Help Center, so this looks like a packaging regression rather than plan gating.
Confirmed still broken on version 1.24012.9 — updated and restarted the app, Cowork tab still absent from the navigation. Same behavior as before the update
Confirming the same issue on version 1.24012.9 (macOS). Cowork tab is missing from the desktop navigation.
Checked the app bundle directly and can confirm the same packaging gap reported above:
Already tried: full restart of the app (fresh install added 2026-07-27, so not a stale-update issue). Same symptom — no cowork module present in
app.asar.unpacked/node_modules, so the Cowork tab / Dispatch button can't render.Also checked claude.ai (web) on the same Pro-plan account as a workaround — no Cowork entry in the sidebar there either (only Chats/Projects/Artifacts/Customize/Code/Design), and navigating to claude.ai/cowork just redirects to the marketing page (claude.com/product/cowork) which points back to downloading the desktop app. So for this account at least, the "use the web app instead" workaround mentioned above doesn't currently work.
Would appreciate a fix or an ETA.
exact same issue.
The same (Mac OS)