Meta’s Muse now lives on Apple Watch and Wear OS

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Your watch got a lot more talkative this week. Meta has brought Muse, its personal AI agent, to the Apple Watch and to Wear OS watches, and your phone can stay in your bag.

Text it. Dictate to it. Or call it and talk.

What Muse does on your wrist

Those are the three ways in on the watch: type a text, dictate a message, or place a voice call and talk to Muse directly. Meta’s fuzzy yeti-like character, the face of the app, sits front and center on the watch screen, and a Muse complication puts it on your watch face, one tap away.

Setup needs the latest Muse app on your phone first. The iPhone app requires iOS 18 or later, the watch app needs watchOS 9 or later, and the Android side covers Android 10 and up, with the Wear OS app waiting in the Google Play Store. Muse only runs in a few countries so far, including the US, Canada, Japan, and Singapore, and it’s an 18-and-over app.

Two months in, Muse keeps spreading

Muse is the agent Meta launched in September, and it does the busywork. It books dinners, manages email, tracks budgets, and nudges you about reminders, and it checks with you before it sends or spends anything. It lives in its own app, at muse.ai, and inside WhatsApp.

Under the hood, Muse runs on its own secure virtual machine, powered by Meta’s Muse Spark model. It can open a browser, fill out forms, and keep working after you close the app, coming back when it needs your OK. It also remembers the small stuff, like a friend’s dietary restrictions you mentioned once, before it sends the dinner invites.

People showed up for it, too. Sensor Tower estimates say Muse passed 10 million downloads in the US in its first 40 days, a pace only 11 other apps have ever matched.

Since September, it has added a Mac app and an iPad version. Meta has AI glasses on the list next.

The keychain problem

At that same Connect event, Zuckerberg closed the show with the Muse Charm, a keychain puck about the size of an Apple Watch, with the same fuzzy avatar on its little screen. Meta pitched it as the fastest way to reach Muse when you’re not wearing its AI glasses. Tap its fingerprint sensor and it answers in real time. It’s a cute idea, a tiny digital pet that runs your errands.

Here’s the catch. Meta still hasn’t shared a Charm price, and the device is only promised in time for the holidays. Borrowing the Charm’s look, the watch app puts the same character on a screen you already own, and it costs nothing extra. Cute loses to free and already strapped to your wrist, most days.

If your watch runs one of the two platforms and you’re somewhere Muse operates, update the app and try a voice call from your wrist. It feels a little silly the first time. It also feels great the first time you set a reminder with your hands full of groceries.

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