Anthropic has just taken a very important step in how we use its Claude app on the Mac. We click where we need to, and Claude does the same; and there’s no interference.
Claude can work while we keep using the Mac
Now, if we assign a task to Claude, it can open apps, click, type, and move around the whole system just as we would. Best of all, the result of those clicks, launches, and actions doesn’t interfere with what we’re doing on the computer, which we can keep using to browse, write, or do anything else without even noticing what Claude is doing.
Claude can now use your computer in the background in Claude Cowork and Claude Code.
Give it something to do on your desktop and Claude clicks, types, and opens apps just like you would, while you work on something else. pic.twitter.com/AOiup03pQK
— Claude (@claudeai) September 2, 2026
Background use is coming to Claude Code for now only on macOS and for the Pro and Max plans, and it goes hand in hand with other changes we’ve seen recently, such as sessions being able to communicate with one another.
The Mac, increasingly ready for AI agents
The fact that Claude can handle a task in Cowork or Code while we continue working is, especially in longer processes, really interesting. Something we’d already had in the ChatGPT app for several months and that now comes to the other major AI player.
With this, the Mac is very quickly positioning itself as a key platform for AI use. Being able to connect several Macs to create our own home data center, or that many of the new features arrive first on Apple’s platform rather than Microsoft’s, are just two examples of that.
While we wait for more features, or wait for Claude to finish what we’ve asked it to do, we can now keep using our Mac as we normally would.
