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Sometimes you might be secretly using your phone under the table, or stuck in traffic in an Uber, and want to ask a AI to ask an AI to ask an AI to do something useful. If that's you (and for your sake I hope not but... ), you could try the hack illustrated here.
This article illustrates experiments with APPLE products and uses Claude (Anthropic.com) but is not an endorsement of any AI or mobile phone or computer system vendor. Similar things could be done by hooking together other products and services. My setup is described in A universal agentic AI for your laptop and beyond. Please be aware of the security risks in granting any AI access to your systems.
I have now used Screens 5 and tailscale to mirror my laptop via a VNC to my old iPhone 13 Pro. That's the trick. With appropriate settings Screens, allows one to pan and zoom in order to operate the otherwise-too-tiny laptop controls. An AI can help you install and configure thtese products.
The image below is an iPhone screensnap of the Screens iPhone App showing my laptop browser while editing this article. I could be writing this article on my phone manually. I could be operating an AI to write this article. But just FYI, I'm not. :)
Below is a screensnap of APPLE KeyNote. On the slide is a screenshot of iPhone Screen-view of the laptop itself. Via Screens on iPhone, I had asked Claude App on my laptop to open a Keynote presentation on my laptop concerning AI. The Keynote slide is about using iPhone to ask Claude App to operate an AI at Huggface. Or something like that - I'm totally lost. Aren't you?
Of course, you can operate Claude App or Perplexity App on iPhone but, as of this writing, Claude Chrome Extension and Perplexity Comet are not yet available for iPhone, limiting agentic use to your laptop. And these systems can not access your native laptop applications and your native AI models so I think Screens or an equivalent may be the only way at present to bring all this functionality to your phone.
Sweet, but can I operate my iPhone agentically? Um,..., actually yes. The trick is to turn on iPhone mirroring so the iPhone appears on your laptop with all of the iPhone buttons clickable using the laptop touch pad. And a local AI is pretty good at clicking using clicclic and other tricks. It can be a little painful the first time to discover how to perform such operations and the tricks are best remembered as AI skills.
Below is a screensnap of my laptop showing the mirrored iPhone on the left. On the right is my Claude Desktop App. I asked Claude to launch Voice Memos and Claude developed a method to do this. We are ready to play a recording stored there (it will be heard through my laptop speaker) or edit it or email it to someone, or whatever. If you thought to initiate a surreptious audio recording or camera image, be aware that APPLE has disabled those functionalities.
Of course, I can ask Claude (or another AI) to launch other iPhone apps, even Screens app as you can see below. This is a screensnap of my laptop with iPhone mirroring and with iPhone Screens App launched on the phone showing the laptop screen as I write this article, or something like that. ;)
Next, let me use Claude desktop app with iPhone mirroring to switch to iPhone Claude App or iPhone Perplexity App and... Nevermind. I think the point has been made well enough. The larger lesson perhaps is to consider how agentic AIs can thusly and otherwise operate one's personal the internet of things, say check if my garage door is closed etc. Have fun. Be safe.
