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Installing Claude on Your Phone

3 min readAll Empower staffReviewed 2026-04-24

Installing Claude on Your Phone

Claude on your phone isn't a stripped-down version. It's the full product plus three things only possible on mobile: voice input, photo analysis, and share-sheet integration from any other app.

Installing on iPhone or iPad

  1. Open the App Store.
  2. Search Claude by Anthropic.
  3. Confirm the developer is Anthropic (watch for look-alikes).
  4. Tap Get, confirm with Face ID.
  5. Open Claude and sign in with the email on your account.

Past conversations appear immediately. It's one account across every device — no duplicate history, no export-import.

Installing on Android

  1. Open the Google Play Store.
  2. Search Claude by Anthropic.
  3. Confirm the developer is Anthropic.
  4. Tap Install, then Open.
  5. Sign in with the same email as your desktop or web account.

One Account, Every Device

You can be signed in on work laptop, personal phone, tablet, and a browser at the same time. Conversations and Projects stay in sync automatically. No export, no transfer.

Mobile-Only Features Worth Knowing

Voice input

Tap the microphone and talk. Claude transcribes and responds.

Example: You finish a site walk or a customer visit and dictate punch-list items into Claude. By the time you're back at the truck, Claude has a clean list ready to paste into email.

Photo upload and analysis

Tap the camera or photo icon to attach an image. Claude reads it.

Example: A confusing clause in a printed contract. Photograph it, ask "What does this mean in plain English?" and get a readable explanation.

Share sheet

In any app — email, browser, PDF viewer, Messages — tap Share and choose Claude. Whatever you were looking at goes straight into a new conversation.

Example: A client emails a PDF inspection report. In the mail app, tap Share → Claude → "What are the three most urgent items?" You get an answer without copy-paste.

Notifications

Claude notifications are off by default. Turn them on only if you use background tasks and want a ping when one completes. Most users leave them off.

Try This Now (2 min)

  1. Install the app and sign in.
  2. Tap the microphone and dictate a rough, rambling summary of your day so far.
  3. Ask: "Pull three action items and three things worth remembering out of this."

That workflow becomes muscle memory within a week.

What Happens Next

Now that Claude is on every surface, understand how to pick the right one for a given moment. Continue to Lesson 05.