Meta's Muse AI agent now works on Apple Watch and Wear OS smartwatches

What Meta announced

Meta has made its Muse AI agent compatible with the Apple Watch and with watches running Wear OS, Google's smartwatch software. As TechRadar reported, you can now talk to your personal agent from your wrist instead of pulling out a phone or opening a laptop.

You have three ways to reach it on a watch: a voice call, a text message, or dictation, where you speak and the watch turns your words into text. The custom version of Muse that you set up shows up on the watch screen to answer questions and keep you on schedule.

The source does not give a price or a rollout date for the watch versions, so check Meta's own pages before assuming it is available to you.

What Muse is supposed to do

An AI agent is a program that takes actions for you, not just one that answers questions. Meta pitches Muse as an agent for nearly every part of daily life. TechRadar lists bills, a mortgage, business meetings, client calls and deadlines. Meta also says it can organize your social life and help you work toward personal goals.

It can also spend your money. If you choose to allow it, Muse can make purchases on your behalf. That is the feature to think hardest about before switching it on.

Meta lets you customize how your assistant looks, so a face of your choosing appears on the phone or watch screen when you ask for help. The persona TechRadar names is Jolly. The idea is to make an AI helper feel friendlier and more familiar.

A growing family of ways to talk to it

The watch is one of several new doors into Muse. Muse arrived in September and, according to the report, passed 10 million downloads in the US app store within its first 40 days. TechRadar says it is becoming a central part of Meta's consumer plans.

• Spaces: Meta announced that Muse can use Spaces, which let you build custom experiences around a particular task, topic or goal.
• Video calls: you can video call the assistant, and Jolly can show subtle expressions and gestures to match the tone of the conversation.
• Muse Charm: Meta has teased a device about the size of a Tamagotchi, the pocket digital pet, for seeing and talking to your Muse in your hand.

One detail on the video calls: Muse cannot see you. TechRadar says it relies entirely on your tone of voice and the subject of the conversation to decide how to express emotion. The expressive face is a performance, not a sign that the software is reading your face.

The privacy catch

TechRadar points to recent testing by Surfshark, which found Muse to be the most data-hungry consumer AI agent available. It collects double the types of data that its competitors do.

The source frames the tradeoff plainly. An agent that can run your bills, calendar and purchases needs wide access to your personal life, and the report says that is easiest to accept if you are comfortable handing that over.

The article also suggests using Wi-Fi for Muse conversations if your phone plan limits data. That advice is about mobile data allowance, which is a different thing from the types of personal information Surfshark counted. Using Wi-Fi may save your plan's allowance, but the source does not say it reduces what Muse collects about you.

What to keep in mind on your wrist

A watch makes asking an AI a question almost effortless, and short spoken replies can sound more certain than they deserve. For anything involving money, health or a deadline that matters, check the answer somewhere else.

The same goes for purchases. The report says Muse can buy things for you, but it does not describe what limits or confirmations apply. Until you know, treat that setting as something to enable deliberately rather than by default.