iphone-use gives an AI agent a real iPhone: the screen as text, tap, type and scroll over WebDriverAgent, with an honest answer for every action (applied, not sent, or unknown). Payment apps that block screenshots come back as a wireframe. A task done once becomes a flow that replays with no model. HTTP API, a 21-tool MCP server for Claude Code, and remote control from a browser or iOS app. Open source, MIT.
Plenty of apps I use every day have no API: banking, payment, health, chat. I wanted my coding agent to be able to operate them on a real phone, the same way it operates a browser. iphone-use started as a remote-control panel and turned into an agent tool once it became clear what an agent needs that a person doesn't: an answer it can branch on (applied, not sent, unknown, retry-safe), refusals instead of taps that silently land elsewhere, and a way to replay a chore without spending tokens. Every request is timed, which is how tap-and-settle went from 8.5 s to 4.2 s. It needs a Mac with Xcode and the phone on USB. Feedback very welcome.
the part that gives me pause is the combo of "payment apps" and "remote control from any browser" in the same feature list. once there's an HTTP API and a browser panel that can tap through a real phone, that control channel is now the actual attack surface, not the apps themselves - whoever can reach that endpoint can do whatever the agent can do, including in banking apps. is there anything beyond "it needs a Mac with Xcode and the phone on USB" standing between that remote panel and someone who isn't you? local-only by default vs something you'd have to deliberately expose matters a lot here
About iphone-use on Product Hunt
“Let AI agents drive a real iPhone, even apps with no API”
iphone-use launched on Product Hunt on October 6th, 2026 and earned 108 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. iphone-use gives an AI agent a real iPhone: the screen as text, tap, type and scroll over WebDriverAgent, with an honest answer for every action (applied, not sent, or unknown). Payment apps that block screenshots come back as a wireframe. A task done once becomes a flow that replays with no model. HTTP API, a 21-tool MCP server for Claude Code, and remote control from a browser or iOS app. Open source, MIT.
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