---
title: Use Polaris on your phone
description: Follow your Sessions, answer the agent and send the next task from your phone.
---

Polaris works in your phone's browser, so you can check on agents, answer a
question or send the next task from anywhere. The agents keep working on their
Machines whether your phone is open or not. Add Polaris to your Home Screen to
open it like an app and get notifications.

![A Session on a phone, with the transcript, chips for 2 subagents working, the next check-in and 6 Sessions that need you, and the composer.](/docs/screenshots/phone.webp)

## Add Polaris to your Home Screen

On iPhone or iPad:

1. Open Polaris in Safari and tap **Share**. If you don't see it, tap **⋯**
   first.
2. Tap **Add to Home Screen**.
3. Open Polaris from your Home Screen and sign in. It doesn't share your
   Safari sign-in.

On Android, you can add Polaris to your Home Screen from Chrome's menu.

## Follow your Sessions

![The Sessions list open on a phone, with the Needs you view button at the top and Sessions grouped by day, each with its status and a More button.](/docs/screenshots/phone-sessions.webp)

- Tap the menu button at the top left to see your Sessions and their
  [statuses](/docs/what-needs-you). **Needs you view** and the Notifications bell
  are at the top.
- Open a Session to read along and answer the agent's questions where they
  appear.
- Tap **More** on a Session's row for actions such as **Snooze** and
  **Archive**.

Your sidebar choices, what you've read, and the Sessions you muted or snoozed
follow your account, so your phone shows the same list as your computer.

## Steer the agent

Type or dictate in the composer to add a detail, change direction, line up the
next task or stop the agent; see [Talk to the agent](/docs/talk-to-the-agent).

Tap the panel button at the top of a Session to open **Updates**, **Preview**,
**Changes** and the other panels in a sheet over the conversation. A subagent
opens in a sheet the same way. A [terminal](/docs/terminal) adds a row with the keys
a phone keyboard lacks, such as **Esc**, **Tab** and **Ctrl**.

## Get notifications

Turn on notifications once on your phone: in Polaris from your Home Screen on
iPhone and iPad, or in Chrome on Android. Your phone has its own switch,
separate from your computer's. See [Notifications](/docs/notifications).

## What's easier on a bigger screen

- **Working side by side.** On a computer, a Preview, the diff or a terminal
  sits next to the conversation instead of over it.
- **Keeping notifications in view.** Only a computer can pin the Notifications
  panel beside the sidebar.
- **Keyboard shortcuts.** See [Keyboard shortcuts](/docs/keyboard-shortcuts).

## If something doesn't work

- **On iPhone and iPad, add Polaris to your Home Screen first.**: follow the
  steps above, then open Polaris from your Home Screen.
- Notifications stopped after you signed out: signing out turns them off. Turn
  **Notifications on this browser** on again after you sign back in.
- **This browser can't show notifications from Polaris.**: update to the latest
  iOS or iPadOS and open Polaris from your Home Screen.