Cursor Ships an iOS App: Run Coding Agents From Your Phone

Cursor released its iOS app as a public beta on June 29 (local time). The core idea: you can spin up a coding agent directly from your phone, or remotely pick up and steer an agent that's already running on your desktop. You can grab it from the App Store or through the TestFlight public beta.

If you're on a paid plan, you can try the beta right now

Per Cursor's announcement, the iOS app is open as a public beta on all paid plans. There's no separate signup — just download it from the App Store and log in with your existing account.

Running the Composer 2.5 model also comes with a 75% discount through July 5, according to Cursor's announcement. It looks aimed at lowering the cost barrier so you'll actually test running agents on mobile.

Pick a repo and launch an agent from your phone

Just like the desktop app, you can choose a repository, pick a frontier model, and kick off an agent. You can hand it instructions by voice or with slash commands.

Cloud agents run inside an isolated virtual machine. That means your session keeps going even after you close the laptop, and according to the official changelog you can also move work you were running locally over to the cloud and continue it there.

Hand off a desktop agent to your phone and keep steering it

The Remote Control feature lets you keep directing an agent that's running on your computer from your phone. To stay connected while you're away from your desk, you can turn on a "keep computer awake" setting.

On Team and Enterprise plans, an admin has to enable this feature first from the Cursor dashboard before you can use it. If you're on a company account, that's something to check.

Watch from the lock screen, and merge PRs from your phone too

You can check agent status via Live Activities on the lock screen, and you get push notifications when work finishes, when input is needed, or when something's ready for review. It's built so you don't miss progress even when you're not at your desk.

You can also look over demos, screenshots, logs, and diffs from your phone, leave follow-up instructions, or merge a PR right from the app. The practical use case that lands here is queuing up a long task and just checking the results during a commute or while you're out.

That said, it's hard to judge voice input accuracy or how the mobile experience actually feels from the announcement alone. That's something to gauge by grabbing the beta and using it yourself.

Source: Cursor — Cursor Mobile App for iOS, Build from anywhere with Cursor for iOS

This post summarizes the official announcement and is not sponsored by Cursor in any form.

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