Orb 1.22.0: pair your iPhone
Your sessions, now in your pocket. This release adds everything the Mac needs to pair with Orb Mobile, the new iOS companion app (in beta on TestFlight).
Your sessions, now in your pocket. This release adds everything the Mac needs to pair with Orb Mobile, the new iOS companion app (in beta on TestFlight).
Orb Mobile pairing
- Scan a QR code from the dock header to pair your iPhone. Your session bubbles appear on the phone, a tap opens a full screen live terminal, and a push tells you when an agent needs you.
- Direct and private: the phone talks straight to your Mac over your own network, end to end encrypted. No relay ever sees your terminal traffic. Away from home, bring your own Tailscale tailnet.
- One device drives a session at a time. Take control from the phone or the Mac and the other side steps back with a clear overlay.
- New Devices page in Settings: see every paired phone, check its fingerprint, revoke it in one click.
Improvements
- Notifications now follow presence: when you are active on your phone, attention pings route there instead of the Mac, and creating a session from the phone no longer steals the Mac's selection.
- Lower idle and streaming battery use on both sides of a remote connection.