I gave my agent my actual iphone..

Reddit r/openclaw 05/27/26, 06:10 AM Products

Summary

A developer created a way for AI agents to control real iPhones via API, enabling tasks like drafting iMessages, running iOS Shortcuts, and mobile app testing. They are offering access to 70 phones for experimentation.

I have a bunch of old iPhones around and so I created a way for agents to use real phones. Basically controllable via api. I’m playing around with using it for Openclaw and trying to figure out what iOS-specific stuff would actually be useful. A few ideas I’m testing: * drafting iMessages with approval * running iOS Shortcuts * using apps that don’t have APIs * mobile app QA/testing It works really well TBH. Much better than expected. Looking for ideas on what to use this for, and I've got 70 phones (don't ask why) that I can give ppl access to if they want to mess around. You can access phones via [here](http://browseblue.com).

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