[FEATURE] Native Claude Code support on iPad / tablets

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Feature Request

Claude Code should run natively on iPad (and tablets generally) as a first-class experience — not through SSH tunnels, companion apps, or web UI wrappers.

Motivation

iPad is increasingly a real computing device. Many developers and power users travel with an iPad as their only machine. Currently, the only options for using Claude Code from an iPad are:

• SSH into a desktop and run it remotely
• VS Code tunnels through Safari
• Wait until you're back at a "real" computer

None of these are great. The first two add friction and require a remote machine to be running. The third means lost productivity.

What this is NOT

There are existing issues for companion apps (#15922, #18189) and mobile-friendly web UIs (#20447). Those are useful but different. This is a request for Claude Code itself — the full CLI experience — to be usable directly on a tablet.

Possible approaches

• Native terminal app for iPadOS
• First-class support in existing iPad terminal apps (a-Shell, Blink, etc.)
• A lightweight local runtime that doesn't require a full desktop OS
• Web-based terminal that runs Claude Code server-side but is designed for tablet input (touch, keyboard, dictation)

Who this helps

Anyone who travels with an iPad and wants to keep working with Claude Code without hauling a laptop.

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1. Feature Request: Mobile version of Claude Code (Android/iOS/Web UI) #20447

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