Windsurf: Devin's Desktop Tab Adds Touch and iPad Support

WindsurfSep 9, 2026View original changelog

Windsurf's Devin Cloud updated the session Desktop tab so it behaves like a full remote-desktop client on iPad and other touch devices, adding tap-to-click, drag, long-press for right-click, and two-finger scroll. When Devin's machine is asleep, the pane now shows the last screenshot with a one-click Wake up Devin button instead of going blank. The same release also let archiving a session close the pull requests of its child sessions, added a multi-PR dropdown to sidebar sessions, and made file paths in the Changes and PR tabs clickable to open diffs inline.

Key Takeaways

The session Desktop tab now works as a real touch interface on iPad and other tablets, supporting tap, drag, long-press-to-right-click, and two-finger scroll.
When a machine is idle, the pane shows its last screenshot plus a one-click "Wake up Devin" button, instead of leaving the tab blank.
Archiving a session now automatically offers to close the pull requests of any child sessions archived alongside it.
Sessions with several open PRs get a new multi-PR dropdown in the sidebar for quicker navigation between them.
File paths in the Changes and PR tabs are now clickable, opening a diff directly in the embedded editor.
Devin Review's PR summaries were shortened to a behavior-focused blurb with optional deeper explanations, and Devin can now re-scan only the new commits on a PR to bulk-fix findings in one pass.

Controlling Devin From an iPad

On September 9, 2026, Windsurf's Devin Cloud updated the session Desktop tab, the view that shows a live look at the virtual machine an agent is working on, to work properly on touch screens. Previously built around mouse-and-keyboard interaction, the tab now supports the gestures people actually use on an iPad or other touch device: tapping to click, dragging, a long press to trigger a right-click, and two-finger scrolling. It effectively turns any tablet browser into a lightweight remote-desktop client for checking in on or steering a running Devin session.

Recovering a Sleeping Machine

A second change addresses what happens when Devin's machine is asleep. Rather than showing a blank or frozen pane, the Desktop tab now fills the space with the last screenshot taken before the machine went idle, and hovering over it surfaces a one-click "Wake up Devin" action. Combined with the touch gesture support, this makes it realistic to check on a session and get it moving again from a phone or tablet without switching to a laptop.

Other Session and Review Updates

The same release bundled a set of smaller session and code-review improvements: archiving a session with open pull requests now also closes the PRs of any child sessions archived with it, and sidebar sessions with multiple open PRs get a new dropdown listing each one. File paths inside a session's Changes and PR tabs are now clickable while the agent's machine is online, opening the relevant diff directly in the embedded editor. Devin Review's PR summaries were trimmed down to a short, behavior-focused blurb with an optional "Learn more" section for a fuller explanation, and Devin can now re-scan just the new commits on a PR and bulk-fix several findings in one pass, either from a session or any Devin MCP client. Slack and Teams integrations also picked up small polish, including mirroring web app answers into linked Slack threads and adding Slack link controls to the session sidebar.