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Let AI agents see and control your iPhone from your Mac
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GITHUB · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 91%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- ai-agents
- automation
- claude
- ios
- iphone
- macos
- +4 more
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Partial The MCP server, Mac UI, and approval flow are standard vibe-codeable work. Reliably seeing and tapping a real iPhone from a Mac depends on device-control and screen-capture mechanisms that are fragile and platform-specific.
What it would actually take: The UI and MCP plumbing can be built with AI assistance in Python and Swift. The hard part is a dependable control channel to the iPhone, such as iPhone Mirroring, WebDriverAgent over USB or Wi-Fi, or XCTest-based automation, plus low-latency screenshots and coordinate mapping. Getting it working across iOS versions requires familiarity with Apple's device protocols and accessibility stack.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1677 of 1758 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
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