remoteControlAtStartup not applied to sessions restored after Desktop app restart
Status Closed — duplicate
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Activity 2 comments · opened Aug 22, 2026 · closed Aug 25, 2026
Title
remoteControlAtStartup not applied to sessions restored after Desktop app restart
Body
Setup
- Desktop app (Claude Code inside claude.ai desktop app)
~/.claude/settings.jsonhas"remoteControlAtStartup": true
Observed behavior
- Brand-new sessions started after setting this option are automatically connected to Remote Control (visible in the iOS/Android app's "Code" tab) — this works as documented.
- However, when the Desktop app itself is restarted and previously-open conversation windows are restored/resumed, those restored sessions are not automatically Remote-Control-enabled, even though
remoteControlAtStartupis stilltruein settings. - Each restored session requires manually running
/remote-control(or/rc) again to reconnect it.
Expected behavior
- Since
remoteControlAtStartupis meant to auto-enable Remote Control at session start, sessions restored on Desktop app relaunch (which are, from the process's perspective, freshly started) would ideally also pick up this setting automatically — or there would be a documented way to batch re-enable it for all currently-open sessions without doing it one window at a time.
Impact
- Users with several open conversation windows have to manually re-run
/remote-controlin each one, every single time the Desktop app restarts (e.g. after an update). This defeats much of the convenience of theremoteControlAtStartupsetting.
Ask
- Either make restored/resumed sessions on Desktop app relaunch honor
remoteControlAtStartup, or provide a command/flag to re-enable Remote Control for all currently-open sessions at once.
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