Anthropic has expanded Claude Cowork, its task-delegation feature for Claude, beyond the desktop app to mobile and web, the company said in a July 7 blog post. The rollout begins in beta for subscribers on Anthropic’s Max plan, with iOS, Android, and web (claude.ai) versions arriving over the coming weeks.
What’s new
Cowork lets users hand off multi-step tasks — such as compiling a report or reconciling data — to Claude, which keeps working in the background even after a laptop is closed. According to Anthropic, a task can now start on one device and finish on another: a user might begin a task on a desktop, get a status update on their phone, and review the finished output later. Scheduled tasks can also run with no device online, kicking off automatically at a set time.
When Claude reaches a step that requires human judgment, it pauses and sends a notification to the user’s phone for approval before proceeding. “Nothing ships until you’ve reviewed and approved it,” Anthropic said in its announcement.
Most users aren’t coding
Alongside the launch, Anthropic published usage data suggesting Cowork’s audience extends well past software engineers. The company said that in a sample of 1.2 million anonymized Cowork sessions across more than 600,000 organizations over two weeks in May, software development made up just 8.7% of use. Business process work — such as pulling scattered updates into a single report — was the largest category at 33.4%, followed by content creation and copywriting at 16.4%.
Anthropic also said it would double Cowork usage limits for eligible users through August 5.