Claude Mobile Apps Now Open Created Content Beside the Chat on iPad and iPhone Duo
A few upgrades to the Claude mobile apps this week: On iPad and iPhone Duo: what Claude makes now opens beside the chat instead of over it, and goes full screen when you want a closer look.
Context
It is a small interface change, but it makes Claude more usable for real work on tablets and folding screens, where people want to see a document or chart and keep chatting at once.
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant. When Claude makes something such as a document, chart or small app, the result appears in a separate panel. On phones and tablets that panel previously covered the conversation. iPhone Duo is a dual screen iPhone model.
Deep dive
The official Claude account posted on Thursday that the Claude mobile apps received a few upgrades this week.
The one highlighted in the post is for iPad and iPhone Duo: anything Claude makes now opens beside the chat instead of over it, and can go full screen for a closer look. The animation shows a conversation about quarterly orders on one side and a generated chart on the other, headed by a total of 4,406 orders, so the user can keep asking questions while looking at the result.
The post was the first in a short thread. It did not list every change, give release notes, or say whether the update applies to Android tablets or folding phones. It also gave no detail on whether the new layout works on all plans.
This is a modest interface improvement rather than a new model or capability, so it ranks last among today's stories. Still, side by side layouts are becoming standard in AI apps as people use them for documents, data and code on larger screens.
What to expect next
Watch whether Anthropic brings the same split view to Android tablets and folding phones, and whether more desktop features arrive on mobile. Competing assistants are making similar layout changes, so this is mostly about keeping pace. More meaningful mobile news would be offline features, deeper app integrations, or agent tools that can act on the device itself, across apps and settings.