--- title: Claude Code on Mobile Is Horrible | daily.dev description: A developer vents about the frustration of trying to use Claude Code from a phone over a terminal SSH session, praising SSH's longevity and mentioning... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-on-mobile-is-horrible-wjwesfvir twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Claude Code on Mobile Is Horrible | daily.dev og:description: A developer vents about the frustration of trying to use Claude Code from a phone over a terminal SSH session, praising SSH's longevity and mentioning... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-on-mobile-is-horrible-wjwesfvir og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WJWEsfVIr.png og:image:alt: Claude Code on Mobile Is Horrible og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Claude Code on Mobile Is Horrible **[Theo - t3․gg](https://daily.dev/sources/t3dotgg)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer vents about the frustration of trying to use Claude Code from a phone over a terminal SSH session, praising SSH's longevity and mentioning alternatives like SSH3 and Mosh, but concluding that doing real coding work on a phone terminal is impractical no matter the tooling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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