Funny how for years many iPad users (including me) asked Apple to create a shell/Terminal app for iPadOS. We were told that nobody cared, was unnecessary, no developer wanted to work on iPadOS anyway.
Guess where you CAN'T use Claude Code today?
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@viticci the iPad is held back so much from being locked down. It’s just insane to put that powerful of a processor in it and not let people take advantage fully. Not everyone is editing videos or audio or creating art. Some of us would like to create apps
@viticci Yes, please! One of the reasons I consider iPadOS less-than-pro is lack of a shell. SSH to a remote host is not a solution. It just means the iPad hardware remains underutilized.
@viticci have you tried goose ?
You can use Claude code CLI as a provider in goose and then access goose on mobile via secure tunneling
https://block.github.io/goose/docs/experimental/mobile-access/
Meanwhile some of the newer Android tablets apparently offer a full Debian Linux development environment, if the device’s hardware can support the Android Virtualisation Framework
But there are terminal apps? Do you mean you want to run one LOCAL not over ssh? You're looking for a Mac. If you want a touch screen you either need to sidecar to a Mac or indulge in the metric F ton of Windows/Linux options out there.
@viticci What you say is that you want an open iPadOS, where you can install software outside of the apps and the App Store, not just a Terminal app.
If you want to use Claude Code on iPad, you can, just install their app.
@viticci Yes, 100% this! I’m a very happy user of a-Shell on the iPad. It’s incredible at what it does. It shows how a first-party terminal app could fit into the platform as it stands, and if it had the imprimatur of the platform vendor, it would open up many opportunities.