iPhones might soon get an utterly powerful AI feature

By Paulo Vargas Published February 12, 2026

Anthropic is testing a new Tasks feature inside Claude’s iOS app, and it looks like a move toward agentic work runs on iPhone, as spotted by TestingCatalog News. A newer build shows a Tasks entry in the app navigation plus a Tasks hub where you can create and manage repeatable jobs.

If it ships as shown, this would push Claude closer to Cowork-style automation on mobile. You set something up once, then rerun it when you need the same outcome again.

What’s still missing is the timeline. The surfaced UI does not include a public rollout date, and it doesn’t say which regions or accounts get it first.

The interface looks intentional. Tasks isn’t tucked away behind a deep setting or a hidden toggle, it’s placed where normal features live, which suggests Anthropic expects people to use it often.

A hub also changes expectations. You’re not relying on one chat thread to remember a workflow, you’re building a reusable run with a home of its own.

Tasks shifts Claude from answering to executing. That’s a meaningful difference on a phone, where work usually happens in quick bursts between messages, meetings, and app hopping. One saved run can cut a lot of repetitive typing.

There are also hints that Tasks may involve operating a browser as part of execution. If that’s accurate, Claude could move from drafting and summarizing into handling multi-step routines, like opening pages, gathering details, and completing sequences you normally do by hand. The limits aren’t spelled out, including how logins work, what permissions it needs, and when it will stop and ask for confirmation.

The next signal is how Anthropic designs control and trust. Look for run history, clear previews of what a task is about to do, and simple ways to pause, cancel, or rerun a job.

The browser piece is the real stress test. If Tasks can click around on your behalf, guardrails will matter as much as capability, especially for anything tied to accounts or purchases. Until those details are public, the practical move is to watch Claude’s iOS release notes for Tasks and treat early versions as a test, not a finished automation layer.