Cursor for iOS

Cursor put a native iOS app into public beta on June 29, and the feature it's built around is a handoff: an autonomous coding agent already churning away on your desktop can be grabbed from your phone and kept moving, with a setting that holds the desktop awake so it doesn't sleep mid-run. The lock screen tracks the agent live, pinging you when it finishes, stalls, or has a diff ready to review and merge.

Your lock screen becomes the agent's status light — it pings you the moment the run finishes, stalls, or has a diff waiting.

Coding from a phone is the headline, but it isn't the news. Cursor shipped that a year ago, almost to the day — a mobile-browser app you could install to your home screen and use to dispatch cloud agents and merge their work. What took the extra year was the native plumbing: the OS-level lock-screen activity, the push notifications, and the remote line back into the specific machine on your desk rather than a generic agent in the cloud.

That reframes the phone's role. It isn't a place you write code; it's a remote control for work you started somewhere else and walked away from, the way you'd glance at a long render or a CI run. For the developers already living on background agents, that closes the loop between leaving the desk and the job being done — though the app is iOS-only and gated behind a paid plan, which keeps the cohort narrower than the launch's reach suggests.