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New upsell tip promotes Claude Code Desktop's iOS Simulator pane

New startup tip promotes testing apps in an iOS Simulator via Claude Code Desktop

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KindImprovementsin v2.1.271,
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New startup tip promotes testing apps in an iOS Simulator via Claude Code Desktop

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.

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Since it was published

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
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Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /desktop, on Use Claude Code in the cloud.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded a spinner tip pointing Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry and LLM gateway users to the Claude desktop app; the claude.ai desktop app tip now…

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