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OpenAI Rolls Out Remote Codex Monitoring Feature for ChatGPT Mobile App
OpenAI announced Thursday that its coding tool Codex is now available within the ChatGPT app on iOS and Android, enabling remote monitoring and management of development workflows. The update, currently in preview and available to all plans, builds on recent desktop and browser enhancements for the agent. It follows a similar remote-control feature released by Anthropic in February.
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OpenAI has integrated its coding tool Codex into the ChatGPT mobile app, allowing users to monitor and manage their development workflows remotely from iOS and Android devices. The company announced the Codex mobile integration on Thursday. The update is currently in preview and is available to all plans on iOS and Android.
The new Codex function allows users to see their Codex live environments on any device where it is running. ” “From your phone, you can work across all of your threads, review outputs, approve commands, change models, or start something new,” OpenAI added in the statement. The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.
Last month, OpenAI gave Codex the ability to run in the background in desktop environments. Earlier this month, OpenAI introduced a Chrome extension that allows the agent to work in live browser sessions. Codex was launched approximately a year ago.
In February, Anthropic released a similar feature called Remote Control, which allows users to remotely monitor Claude Code’s work from afar. The successive releases illustrate growing competition between the two firms’ agentic coding tools, both of which remain widely used.
The article detailing the announcement was posted at 1:58 PM PDT on May 14, 2026.
