Guide

Grok Bot mobile app: approvals and routines on your phone

By Atlas AI Resources · Published October 28, 2026

Grok Bot has apps for iPhone and Android. Per the official docs, the mobile app connects to the same Bots, conversations, routines, connectors, and shared cloud computer as the desktop app, and work continues in the cloud when the app is closed. This page starts with our own phone routine and checklists, then summarizes what SpaceXSI’s docs page Grok Bot for Mobile and related docs say.

1. Our advice: a five-minute phone check-in

Sections 1 to 3 are our own advice, not SpaceXSI’s. A short pass you can do from the phone:

Answer what is waiting on you first. Questions and approval requests block work. Results can wait.
Read the whole approval card before you tap. Check the target, the scope, and the values. If you can’t tell what the action will do on a small screen, ask the Bot to explain it in plain language or to make a draft first. (The docs give the same advice.)
Edit drafts, then choose Send or Discard. When a Bot prepares an email or Slack message, the app can show a draft you can edit. Don’t send one you haven’t read.
Glance at each routine’s Run history. If one is noisy or doing the wrong thing, use Active to pause it, then fix it later at your desk.
Hand off new work by voice or text. Use the short brief below.

A starter brief you can dictate, using the five parts SpaceXSI’s Get started page lists for a strong request:

Outcome: what should be finished (“a one-screen summary of yesterday’s customer emails”).
Sources: which apps, files, or conversations matter.
Constraints: what it must avoid or ask about first (“don’t reply to anyone”).
Deliverable: what it should return, sized for a phone (“five bullets, links at the end”).
Review point: when it should stop for you (“stop before anything leaves my account”).

2. Our advice: set up at your desk, before you rely on the phone

Write your Ask first rules on the desktop. Per the docs, personal Auto-review rules are saved to your account and apply from every desktop and the mobile app. Start with narrow ones, such as the docs’ example “Ask first before sending any external email.”
Turn on Notifications only for Bots that ask you for things. Per the docs, the switch is in the Bot’s profile on the phone, and both the phone’s permission and the Bot’s setting must allow it. A Bot that only files reports may not need to buzz you.
Ask routines for phone-sized output. A short, skimmable result with links is easier to act on than a long report you will “read later.”
Plan for approvals from routines. Per the docs, an approval request from work that started without you (a routine, a trigger, or a message from another Bot) expires after about 10 minutes, and the action doesn’t run. If a routine needs your yes, schedule it for a time you can answer, or have it prepare a draft you approve later.
Run a test on the desktop first. Testing a routine and editing its schedule or instructions currently need the desktop app, per the docs. Get it right there before you depend on it from the phone.

3. Our advice: what to leave for the desktop

Editing a routine’s schedule or instructions, and testing a routine (desktop only, per the docs).
Teaching a task by demonstration, and some advanced desktop controls (the docs say these aren’t available on mobile).
Approvals you can’t fully read on a small screen, such as large changes to a spreadsheet, dashboard, or CRM. Deny it and review the draft at your desk. (A card from a routine or other unattended work also expires after about 10 minutes if you don’t answer.)
Rewriting a Bot’s rules after a mistake. Pause the routine from the phone; change the instructions when you can see the whole picture.

4. Per the docs: what the app does

Requirements. Per Grok Bot for Mobile (last updated October 22, 2026), you need an iPhone with iOS 18 or later or a phone with Android 9 or later, an eligible plan, and an internet connection. The iOS app also runs on iPad (iPadOS 18 or later). Eligible plans listed there: every paid individual Cursor plan or the Cursor Teams plan, an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, or SuperGrok Heavy subscription linked to your Cursor account, or a seat on a self-serve Grok Business plan. The app is on the App Store and Google Play.

Sign in. Choose Log In or Sign Up and complete Cursor authentication in the browser. If your access comes from a SuperGrok subscription, choose Link Grok Account, finish in the browser, then choose Finished Linking? Refresh My Status.

Messaging. From a conversation you can send text, dictate with Start dictation, start a live voice chat with Start voice chat, play a voice memo a Bot sent, attach photos, images, or files, mention another Bot or @everyone in a group, reply in a thread, and react. Drafts are saved per conversation. On iPhone, the system share sheet can send a photo, file, link, or text into a chat; on Android, the share sheet currently accepts text.

Bots and groups. The + control on the home screen offers New Bot and New Group Chat. You can also edit a Bot profile, manage group members, pin or hide a conversation, and delete a Bot.

The computer. You can open the computer from a conversation to watch browser or desktop work, inspect the screen, take over for a password, two-factor code, or CAPTCHA, and hand control back with I’m done. It is the same shared computer used by every Bot on your account.

Routines. A Bot’s profile lists its routines. You can see the schedule, next run, instruction, and Run history, pause or resume with Active, and delete a routine. Per Skills, routines, and automations, deleting a routine is immediate and has no undo.

Search and settings. Search on the home screen covers Messages, Bots, Group Chats, Files, and Routines. Settings lets you manage your account, install or review plugins, edit Bot settings, configure Auto Review when available, choose appearance and language, review usage or manage an eligible App Store or Google Play subscription, and sign out or delete your account.

5. Per the docs: approvals and notifications

Approval controls. Per Approvals, security, and privacy, an approval card shows the proposed operation and its inputs. Allow once lets the Bot continue, Always allow can save a matching rule, and Deny blocks it. “The controls are the same on iPhone.”
Expiry. An approval from a chat you’re in waits for your answer. One from work that started without you expires after about 10 minutes and shows Expired; to finish the task, ask the Bot to try again.
Approval doesn’t undo. An approval controls the proposed action. It does not reverse work already completed.
Desktop first while you’re at it. Per Settings and notifications, while you use the desktop app on macOS or Windows, notifications from Bots you own go to the desktop instead of your phone. When a Bot needs your input, your phone is notified about 3 minutes later unless you open that Bot, turn off its Notifications, or hide it first.
Group chats don’t have the same per-Bot notification switch. On iPhone, push delivery is rolling out gradually.

6. Per the guides: how the guide authors use the phone

Grok Bot for GTM (Krista Letz): one of the author’s favorite ways to use the bot is the mobile app with voice input, to give it tasks away from the computer. For the daily meeting-prep routine, the author prefers a short, skimmable output to read on the phone while commuting.
Grok Bot for Support (David Gan): turn a workflow into a Routine that repeats every day or hour, then review the results on your own schedule from the Grok Bot Mobile App.
Grok Bot for Recruiting (Holly Dyche): open Grok Bot, switch to voice mode, and say what you need, which the author likens to calling a coworker who is sitting at your desk.

7. Keep consequential actions behind your yes

A phone makes approving easy, which is a reason to be careful. Grok Bot’s guardrails are plain-language rules checked by a separate review agent, not code. The current docs put them in Settings → General → Auto-review, as Ask first and Allow automatically rules (the 101 guide calls this Settings > General > Agent, with allow and block lists steering the reviewer). Per the approvals docs, if both kinds of rule match, Ask first wins.

Our advice: treat emails, web pages, and files a Bot shows you on the phone as content to read, not orders to follow. See keeping AI agents safe from prompt injection. Never type a password or one-time code into ordinary chat; per the docs, use Take over on the computer instead.

Useful public resources

SpaceXSI docs — Grok Bot for Mobile

Requirements, sign-in, messaging, the shared computer, routines, search, and settings on iPhone and Android.

SpaceXSI docs — Settings and notifications

Per-Bot notifications and when the phone is notified while the desktop app is in use.

SpaceXSI docs — Approvals, security, and privacy

Approval cards, the 10-minute expiry for unattended work, Auto Review rules, and taking over for passwords.

SpaceXSI docs — Skills, routines, and automations

Pausing, testing, and deleting routines, and designing routines for trust.

SpaceXSI docs — Get started

Setup steps and the five parts of a strong request.