macOS 26 or later·iPhone and iPad on iOS 27·What's new
Claude Code, in a terminal, booking a flight on an iPhone through Device MCP, beside the live mirror
Works with the agents you already use
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
Gemini CLI
VS Code
Any MCP client
All of Device Hub, and more.
Nothing on the device. No helper app, no signing team, no certificates. Plug in, trust the Mac, turn on Developer Mode.
USB or Wi-Fi. The same mirror and control over the cable or the air, switching on its own when you unplug.
Private by design. The MCP server runs on your Mac, on localhost, behind a token. Your screen never leaves the room.
01Mirror
See your iPhone on your Mac.
A sharp, full-colour mirror at up to 60 frames a second, over USB or Wi-Fi. Text stays readable, gradients stay smooth, and the picture sits inside a model of your actual device.
A live, full-colour mirror of an iPhone inside its rendered device frame
Sharper than Device Hub
iOS's Remote Desktop stream: HEVC 4:4:4 at up to 60 Mbit/s, where Device Hub's profile stops at 6.
USB or Wi-Fi
Automatic prefers the cable and falls back to Wi-Fi, then moves back when you plug in again.
The real device, rendered
Its colour, buttons, Dynamic Island and cameras, drawn live around the mirror. Click a button to press it.
02Control
Control it with your mouse and keyboard.
Your mouse becomes a finger and your trackpad does the gestures. Type with your Mac keyboard, press the hardware buttons from the toolbar, and never reach for the phone.
Controlling an iPhone with the Mac: Control Center, Home and typing
Tap, swipe, pinch
Clicks, drags, trackpad scrolling and pinch, with long press on a right click.
Every button
Home, Lock, volume, Siri, Control Center, the App Switcher and rotation.
Type and paste
Type straight into the device, accents included, or paste from your Mac's clipboard.
Capture it
Lossless screenshots and screen recordings, one click from the toolbar.
03Agents
Give your agent an iPhone.
Device MCP has a built-in MCP server. Claude Code, Codex or any MCP agent can see the screen, then tap, swipe and type on your real iPhone or iPad.
Claude Code driving an iPhone through Device MCP, with every tool call in the activity log
$ claude mcp add --scope user device-mcp -- "/Applications/Device MCP.app/Contents/MacOS/device-mcp"
Run this in Terminal, then ask Claude to use your iPhone.
It sees what you see
Screenshots plus the words and controls on screen, so an agent can tap “Sign In” by name.
28 tools, one command
Tap, type, swipe, launch apps, open links, record. Add it to your agent with a single line.
You stay in charge
Installs, deletions and builds ask first. Every call is logged, and the mirror shows when an agent is driving.
SoonThe same MCP server for iOS Simulators, Android emulators and Android devices.
04Build & Run
Build and run your app on the device.
Point Device MCP at an Xcode project. It builds, installs and launches on the device you're watching. Your agent can do the same, then tap through what it built to check its own work.
Building an Xcode project from source and launching it on the iPhone
Any Xcode project
A project or a workspace, with the scheme and configuration you choose.
Closed-loop testing
Edit, build, run, tap, screenshot, fix. Your agent tests on real hardware without you.
Logs you can read
Build output streams into the Inspector, and failures say why.
05Handoff
Your agent asks when it needs you.
Face ID, a passcode, an Apple Account password: an agent can't get past them, and shouldn't. Device MCP spots the prompt, sends you a notification with a sound, and waits until you're done.
An agent asking for a human: Device MCP shows the request and waits for Done
Spots the prompts
Recognises Face ID, Touch ID, passcode and permission prompts on screen.
Taps you on the shoulder
A Mac notification with sound, even when Device MCP is in the background.
Picks up where it left off
Click Done and the agent carries on with the rest of the task.
And a few more things.
Many devices at once
Mirror every iPhone and iPad you plug in, each in its own window.
iPad, too
iPadOS 27 in portrait or landscape, with rotation from the toolbar.
Knows what's wrong
Locked, not trusted, Developer Mode off: Device MCP names it, shows the fix and carries on once it's done.
App manager
List, launch, quit and remove the apps on a device from the Inspector.
Native and light
A real Mac app built with SwiftUI and Metal, decoding the stream in hardware.
Signed updates
New versions arrive quietly, signed and verified, as small delta downloads.
Device MCP vs Device Hub
Built to replace Device Hub.
Xcode's Device Hub showed what iOS 27 can do. Device MCP takes it further: a sharper picture, a home of its own, and a device your agents can use.
Feature
Device MCP
Device Hub
Mirror iPhone and iPad on iOS 27
Yes
Yes
Stream profile
Remote Desktop · HEVC 4:4:4 · up to 60 Mbit/s
Screen Sharing · 4:2:0 · up to 6 Mbit/s
Coding agents control the device (MCP)
28 tools
—
Alerts you for Face ID and passcodes
Notification + sound
—
Where it lives
Its own Mac app
Inside Xcode
Get started
Set up in a minute.
1
Plug in your iPhone
Any iPhone or iPad on iOS 27. Trust this Mac and turn on Developer Mode once.
2
Open Device MCP
Your device appears in the sidebar and starts mirroring in about a second.
3
Connect your agent
One command adds Device MCP to Claude Code, a few lines to Codex or Cursor. Then just ask.
Claude Code$ claude mcp add --scope user device-mcp -- "/Applications/Device MCP.app/Contents/MacOS/device-mcp"
