Codex iphone&macbook connection failed. says Couldn’t update remote control availability
Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 9, 2026 by zx7ch
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 26.707.31123
What subscription do you have?
plus plan
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 21.6.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
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When I tried to add my iphone as connection on Codex App, there's no QR code shown up.
"Pairing code unavailable: Timed out waiting for remote control to connect"
I've tried refresh the connection and log out then log in on both devices, none of them works.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Settings > Connections > Control this Mac > Allow Connections > add > no QR code shows up
What is the expected behavior?
Able to see the connection QR code
Additional information
_No response_
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I ran into the same issue and finally got it working. The underlying problem was that the Codex background process could not reliably connect to the Remote Control service through my network proxy. I used Proxifier to route Codex traffic through the proxy and enabled hostname resolution through the proxy instead of using local DNS.
I also changed the concrete GitHub entry in my SSH config from “Host github.com” to “Host github.*”, which prevented Codex from treating GitHub as a remote development host while preserving normal GitHub SSH access. After fully restarting the network proxy, Proxifier, and ChatGPT, the pairing code appeared and Remote Control connected successfully. Hope this helps anyone seeing the same timeout or TLS handshake error!