When the Claude desktop app restarts or updates, your Claude Code sessions lose Remote Control, and your phone can't reach them anymore. Remote Keeper turns it back on from your iPhone, with one tap.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Install the free Remote Keeper app on your Mac or Windows PC (mannydlabs.com/remote-keeper). It lives in your menu bar or tray.
2. Scan the QR code it shows. That links your iPhone to that computer.
3. Choose the sessions to keep connected, and turn on alerts.
When a session loses Remote Control, you get an alert. Long-press it and tap Reconnect, or tap Reconnect in the app. Remote Keeper opens that session on your computer and turns its Remote Control switch back on (or runs Claude's own /remote-control command), so it's back on your phone in seconds. A session Claude hasn't started yet gets one short message first.
FEATURES
• Reconnect one session, or all of them, with one tap (about a second each)
• Jump into any session: tap its arrow and the Claude app opens that exact session
• Claude updates on your terms: an alert when the Claude app has an update ready, What's New, and Install Now, which restarts Claude and brings every session right back
• A badge when Claude updated itself, so you know why your sessions went offline
• Your Claude usage on each computer, kept fresh even when you're away from your desk: the 5-hour and weekly limits (and any others Claude shows), with exactly when each resets
• Favorites first: put your sessions in order, and Reconnect All goes top to bottom
• New sessions show up on their own: start one in Claude and add it with one tap (or get an alert, if you turn that on)
• Renamed sessions update by themselves
• Alerts with a Reconnect button, right on your lock screen
• An alert if a computer stops checking in, so you know it's asleep or offline
• An app badge with how many sessions are offline
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
• Siri and Shortcuts: "Reconnect my sessions in Remote Keeper"
• All your Macs and Windows PCs in one app; rename them and label them Work, Personal or Hobby
• Choose as many sessions as you like on each computer
• Update Remote Keeper on your computer from your phone
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account and no sign-up. Your computers sync through your own iCloud Keychain (or stay on this iPhone only, your choice). Everything between your phone and your computer is end-to-end encrypted: the relay in the middle only passes along scrambled data and can't read your session names. Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. Remote Keeper collects no data, and the Mac and Windows apps are open source.
Try it first: tap Try the Demo to look around with made-up computers.
Remote Keeper needs the Claude desktop app with Claude Code on a Mac (macOS 13 or later) or a Windows 10 or 11 PC, with the free Remote Keeper app installed on it.
NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANTHROPIC
Remote Keeper is an independent app made by MannyD Labs. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic.
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Built by MannyD Labs: mannydlabs.com/remote-keeper
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