Meta puts Muse on Apple Watch and announces Wear OS support

Meta announced smartwatch support for Muse, its personal AI agent, on November 9. Version 15.0 of the iPhone app added an Apple Watch companion, giving users on supported devices a way to start a request from their wrist. Meta also named Google’s Wear OS in its announcement that day.

Apple’s App Store lists watchOS 9.0 as the minimum for the watch app and iOS 18.0 for the iPhone app. Meta’s announcement image depicts Muse on a round watch and a rectangular one, each with phone, chat and microphone icons. The U.S. and Singapore App Store listings give Muse an age rating of 18+.

The companion arrives with the iPhone update

The U.S. App Store dates Muse 15.0 to November 9 and identifies the Apple Watch companion as an addition in that release. Version 15.1 was also listed when checked on November 11. Its release notes repeated the companion announcement and mentioned bug fixes.

Apple says users can get compatible watch versions of their iPhone apps through the paired phone. The watch also has its own App Store. Apple lists watch versions of apps installed on the phone under the available apps in the paired iPhone’s Watch app.

Apple’s U.S. and Singapore storefronts list Muse as a free download with in-app purchases. That listing price covers the download. Meta’s watch announcement included no separate price for the companion.

The same app identifier returned no product page on the South Korean App Store when checked on November 11. The Singapore listing includes Korean among the app’s languages. The Singapore store also lists the Apple Watch under compatible devices. Meta’s watch announcement did not give a country-by-country rollout schedule.

A typed message, dictation or a voice conversation

The Apple Watch app is an entry point for talking to Muse. Users can type a short request or speak it as dictation, which sends their words as a text message. The phone icon shown in Meta’s announcement is for starting a spoken conversation with Muse.

In an announcement published November 5 and updated November 6, Meta said live voice and expressive avatars were rolling out in the U.S. first. That announcement named the mobile app, the web and the Mac. Meta said in that earlier announcement that users could ask Muse to start a task during a voice conversation. The November 9 announcement did not give a breakdown of watch calling and dictation by country and device.

A request can start on the watch while the work itself draws on services connected to the Muse account. Meta says the agent uses a dedicated cloud computer and can work with services a user has connected, such as a calendar or email. Checking for an opening in a calendar requires reading information. An instruction to send an email also involves transmitting information to someone else.

In its Japan launch announcement, Meta says longer tasks can continue after the app closes. Muse can send an alert when the situation changes or a decision is needed. Meta describes a dedicated cloud computer for each user and announced no change to that setup in the watch launch.

Meta’s technical description says the agent pauses when its permission system requires confirmation and the app shows the action for review. The product site gives sending email and making purchases as examples of actions it asks people to approve. The technical account says read-only or previously allowed actions can proceed without interruption. The watch announcement leaves open whether someone can complete those approvals from the watch after starting a request there.

Wear OS support is announced without a version list

Meta’s Muse account said the agent was also available on Wear OS. Meta’s U.S. Google Play listing showed a November 10 update for Muse when checked on November 11. The listing gave no minimum Wear OS release or list of compatible watch models. Google’s Wear OS documentation says app availability can vary with the watch maker, device and software version. It also says a phone app does not automatically install a watch app, and the Play Store on the watch shows apps available for it.