Claude Code now runs in the iOS simulator — yep, the whole thing

Anthropic shipped Claude Code for iOS, and you can run it right in the simulator. No app store, no wrapper. Just Claude Code itself, compiled for Apple Silicon and talking to the API like it's at a terminal.

Simon Willison is the one who spotted it first. He's been following the Claude partner network since the early days and knows how these things land. The pair of them — Simon and Thariq — have been working on this for a while, and the result is lean: the model, the code, the prompts, all running on an M-series Mac without the usual scaffolding.

Why this matters for us:
If tools start running natively on our Macs instead of behind some web wrapper, they get faster, stay offline when the internet drops, and stop charging us per request. This is what the future looks like — quiet, fast, and under our feet.