Perplexity launches Computer on iOS with cross-device sync for long-running tasks

• Perplexity has brought Computer to iOS, making its task-running interface available inside the Perplexity app, and the company says Android is coming next according to the launch post.
• The core change is cross-device continuity: Perplexity's announcement says you can start a task on one device and manage it from phone or desktop, while a rollout post says sessions are synced across devices.
• The product pitch is long-running cloud work rather than a one-shot chat: a supporting practitioner breakdown describes multi-step workflows that keep running for hours, and Perplexity demos show mobile prompts turning into generated deliverables like slide decks.
• This is now broadly available on iOS, with TestingCatalog reporting a full rollout to all users rather than a limited beta.

Perplexity's launch post says Computer is now available on iOS inside the main Perplexity app. The two concrete launch claims are "start any task on any device" and "manage Computer from your phone or desktop with cross-device synchronization," which frames this as a mobile extension of an existing agent workflow rather than a separate mobile-only mode.

A follow-up rollout post adds the deployment detail engineers usually care about most: Perplexity Computer has been "fully rolled out on iOS to all users." That matters because it shifts the story from feature announcement to general availability. The same post repeats that "all sessions are synced across devices," reinforcing that state continuity is part of the shipped behavior, not just launch messaging.

The primary demo post shows the mobile app being used for desktop-style task execution, including a prompt to "Create a 12-slide presentation" and a generated slide outline. That suggests the iOS client is not just a notification surface; it can initiate substantive work that previously would have felt more natural from a laptop.

Supporting commentary in a practitioner thread describes the system as a cloud-side workflow runner where you describe an outcome in plain language and the agent breaks it into subtasks. Some of those implementation details are not confirmed by Perplexity directly here, but they fit the launch's main operational claim: tasks can continue after you leave the screen, and the same job can be resumed from another device. For engineers, the practical change is that the session boundary moves from "desktop where you started it" to an account-level workflow that persists across clients.