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Let Codex on macOS send a notification to ChatGPT on iPhone when explicitly asked

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 14, 2026 by vanjaoljaca
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Core request

I want to be able to tell Codex on my Mac:

Notify me on my phone when this is done.

Codex should then send a notification through the ChatGPT app on my iPhone when it reaches that point.

The notification should tell me something useful about the result, not merely say that an unspecified task finished. For example:

Codex finished the report
The report is ready and the source check passed.

Tapping it should open the relevant Codex task.

Why I want this

I want to know when something is done, and I want to know something about it.

Currently I have to keep opening Codex on my phone, wait for the slow Remote screen to load, find and click the right thread, and inspect it to learn whether anything happened. I do not want to repeatedly poll the app while a task runs on my Mac.

This is primarily a small, explicit agent capability: when I ask Codex to notify me, it can send a useful notification to the ChatGPT mobile app associated with my account.

Minimum expected behavior

  1. The user explicitly asks Codex on macOS to notify them at some point.
  2. Codex can invoke a first-party “send notification to my ChatGPT mobile app” capability.
  3. The iPhone receives a concise notification saying what happened.
  4. Tapping it opens the correct Codex task.

Possible extensions

The following could be useful later, but they are extensions rather than the core request:

  • automatic opt-in notifications for task or turn completion;
  • failures;
  • approval or permission requests;
  • scheduled automation completion or failure;
  • per-task or per-automation notification controls;
  • privacy controls for lock-screen content.

Related issues

  • #20930 concerns missing desktop turn-completion notifications for remote projects. This request is specifically about first-party delivery to the ChatGPT iOS app.
  • #14813 concerns external notify hooks. This request should not require Pushover, Slack, email, shell hooks, or another third-party service.
  • #22773 contains broader Remote Control reliability reports, including delayed or absent mobile push.

No account identifiers, private task content, thread IDs, or local paths are included in this public request.

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 1 month ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #32908

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fxhuanghfx · 4 days ago

Strong +1 for this request from a long-running Codex desktop workflow.

A common productivity failure mode is that Codex finishes a task, needs approval, or becomes blocked while the user is working in another app. The user may not notice for a long time, so the machine sits idle even though the next human action could take only a few seconds.

A first-party notification path from Codex desktop to the ChatGPT mobile app would materially improve long-running and autonomous workflows. The most useful events would be:

  • task / agent turn completed;
  • approval or user input required;
  • task blocked or stopped;
  • task failed;
  • optional scheduled automation completion.

Suggested behavior:

  1. Send a concise push notification to the user's ChatGPT mobile app.
  2. Tapping it opens the exact Codex thread/task.
  3. Include a short outcome summary, not just “finished”.
  4. Provide controls such as Always / Only when unfocused / Important events only / Off.
  5. Optionally notify only for tasks longer than a configurable threshold.
  6. Keep lock-screen content privacy-aware.
  7. Provide the same reliable completion/approval notification on macOS.

This would make it much easier to delegate multi-hour engineering tasks during the day or overnight without repeatedly polling the Codex app.