What
A new startup tip can now appear suggesting: "Claude Code Desktop can test your app in an iOS Simulator pane," with a hint to run /desktop to continue the current session in the Claude Code Desktop app.
Why
This surfaces a Claude Code Desktop capability (testing apps in an iOS Simulator) to users who might not otherwise discover it.
Names in the bundle/desktop
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Added since
A small documentation edit on Test iOS apps in the simulator touched a line naming /desktop after this was published.
The simulator pane is available in local sessions only. In [cloud](/docs/en/desktop#run-long-running-tasks-in-the-cloud) and [SSH](/docs/en/desktop#ssh-sessions) sessions, Claude runs on a machine that can't reach the simulators on your Ma…desktop-ios-simulator see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /desktop, on Use Claude Code in the cloud.
* **Desktop app**: select **Cloud** instead of **Local** when you [start a session](/docs/en/desktop#run-long-running-tasks-in-the-cloud)claude-code-on-the-web see the edit
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /desktop, on Use Claude Code in the cloud.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Added a spinner tip pointing Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry and LLM gateway users to the Claude desktop app; the claude.ai desktop app tip now…