Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web as Anthropic reveals what people actually use it for

Date:
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Description:
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available on web and mobile, with cloud option now available, as usage patterns shift.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter You can now run Claude Cowork
in the cloud, from the web or mobile Knowledge work now accounts for around half of all Cowork sessions Traditional local Cowork sessions are still supported Days after reports surfaced that Anthropic could be bringing Claude Cowork to its mobile app, the company has gone one further users can now start, monitor and complete their agentic workflows from the mobile app and a dedicated web portal.

The upgrade is rolling out in beta now for Claude Max subscribers, but the company has plans to bring the functionality to more plans as rollout continues. As part of the upgrade, Cowork sessions will also run in the cloud by default another beta introduction that means workflows can continue even once a PC goes offline or shuts down. Latest Videos From Watch full video here: Claude Cowork can now be used virtually anywhere Because the AI agent can run autonomously across things like files and documents, emails and calendars, and other connected apps, many users mostly left Cowork to run independently. However because it ran locally, it required users to keep
their desktop session active even when they stepped away.

Now, scheduled work no longer requires a device to remain online though
users can still choose to run Cowork locally when access to local files is required, for example. You may like Anthropic could be about to release
Claude Cowork for mobile Claude Cowork is now available for enterprise use, adds analytics, access controls and more Anthropic reveals Claude for Small Business to help 'close the gap' using AI

As for why Claude Cowork is being used, Anthropic has revealed that the autonomous agent is mostly being used among knowledge workers despite initially being targeted at coders. "Pulling scattered updates into a single report, building onboarding checklists and reconciling spreadsheets" account for the largest chunk, at around 33% of all use cases across Anthropic's analysis of 1.2 million sessions.

Content creation and copywriting (16%) came next, with software development (9%) and DevOps and infrastructure (7%) actually only accounting for much smaller proportions. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to
the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners
or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms &
Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

With knowledge work now accounting for nearly half of all Claude Cowork sessions, the company's research shows agentic AI emerging as an everyday
work colleague. Though the company didn't indicate how, or whether, this
shift in behavior might impact its pipeline, a shift away from coding as a primary use case could evolve Cowork in different ways to how we might have imagined. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



======================================================================
Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/claude-cowork-expands-to-mobile-and-web-as-anthr opic-reveals-what-people-actually-use-it-for


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100)