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Wait a moment and refresh the Instances screen.",[20,480,482],{"id":481},"switch-back-to-local-mode","Switch back to local mode",[25,484,485,491,494],{},[28,486,487,488,490],{},"Open the ",[15,489,17],{}," screen from the sidebar.",[28,492,493],{},"Click the cloud desktop you are connected to.",[28,495,33,496,498],{},[15,497,469],{}," on the detail page.",[11,500,501],{},"The app reconnects to the OpenClaw gateway running on your local machine. Switching modes does not delete any data — your cloud desktop and local setup each keep their own agents and history.",[20,503,505],{"id":504},"automatic-reconnection","Automatic reconnection",[11,507,508],{},"The desktop app remembers which cloud desktop you last connected to. The next time you open the app, it reconnects automatically if that cloud desktop is running. 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