# Phone Use lets agents control a real iPhone over Bluetooth and AirPlay

> Original title: Computer use is over.

- Source: X search: AI launch posts (introducing, just launched)
- Published: 2026-11-07T01:42:34.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wgvsdzgoi7h98q7668rnq6ttc
- Original: https://x.com/lxe/status/2118881765704319015

## Summary

Aleksey Smolenchuk introduces Phone Use, which lets an agent control a real iPhone from a Linux machine over Bluetooth and AirPlay. The agent watches the screen through AirPlay and taps and types as a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, with no jailbreak or app on the phone. Text is read out of band through OCR, so screenshots are not needed for every interaction.

## Post

Computer use is over.

Introducing PHONE USE!

http://github.com/lxe/phoneuse

My real actual iPhone on my desk via Bluetooth and AirPlay connected to my Linux machine.

Textualization OCR happens out of band so we don't use screenshots all the time. There are recipes for all interactions. Agent skill for your robots.

You literally can just do anything now.

[Video](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Famplify_video_thumb%2F2118880546877300736%2Fimg%2FiHfif6P953vhmwOz.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1794268800&sig=a1ec4b61521050c5)

## Quoted post @lxe

> I can now control my phone with an agent. It watches the screen over airplay and taps and types as a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, no jailbreak and no app on the phone. It put sushi in my DoorDash cart and wrote this post

https://x.com/lxe/status/2118877804242886860