Muse on Apple Watch and Wear OS: how to set it up

Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, now has an app for Apple Watch and Wear OS. To set it up, update the Muse app on your phone, install the watch app from the App Store or Google Play, and then type, dictate or start a voice call with Muse from your wrist.

What Meta posted

@Muse announced it on November 9 with a short clip of the watch app and one line: "Works around the clock, and now on your wrist."

That post is nearly everything Meta has said in public. Its Muse launch page was updated on November 10 and still doesn't mention watches. So the details below come from press coverage: TechCrunch, The Gadgeteer and Gadgets & Wearables. I say which outlet reported what, because they don't agree on everything.

What Muse does on a watch

Gadgets & Wearables ties the Apple Watch app to version 15.0 of the Muse app. If you don't see a watch option, check that number first.

How to set it up

None of the coverage gives a step-by-step from Meta, so this is the short version pieced together from the reports:

1. Update Muse on your phone. The Gadgeteer says setup needs the latest phone app first.
2. Install the watch app. BigGo Finance reports that the Apple Watch version comes through the App Store and the Wear OS version through Google Play.
3. Add the Muse complication to your watch face so it's one tap away.
4. Send a small request to check that it's talking to the same Muse as your phone.

For that last step, try something low-stakes. These prompts are mine: "What's on my calendar after 3 today?" Then, "Draft a text to my 4 o'clock saying I'm running 15 minutes late, and don't send it." Open the phone app afterward and see whether the draft is sitting there.

If you haven't used voice with Muse before, our Muse voice walkthrough covers how calls work on the phone. The watch call is the same idea on a smaller screen.

What isn't clear yet

The first open question is whether the watch works alone. The Gadgeteer writes that "your phone can stay in your bag." SQ Magazine lists phone-free use as unconfirmed. Gadgets & Wearables describes the watch apps as remote controls for the cloud machine where Muse does its work, which would mean the watch needs a connection of some kind, though not necessarily your phone. Test it yourself before you leave the phone in the truck.

Approvals are the second. Meta's launch page says Muse "checks with the person before sensitive actions." Only one outlet reports that you can give that approval from the watch, and nobody describes how much of the pending action the small screen shows. We wrote about the Sentinel approval check when Muse launched. Meta hasn't said whether a wrist tap goes through the same review.

Wear OS owners have the least to go on. No outlet found a minimum version or a list of supported watches.

My read

I think this is a small release. It makes Muse easier to reach and, as far as anyone has reported, adds no new abilities. That's still worth something if your hands are usually full. Someone on a ladder or working the line at lunch rush isn't going to pull out a phone to ask whether the 2 o'clock confirmed.

The approval part is what I'd be careful with. A two-inch screen is a poor place to review an email or a payment before it goes out. Approving from the wrist is fine for "yes, move that reminder." For anything a customer will read, I'd open the phone. That matters more now that Active Memory lets Muse carry what you tell it into later work.

What this means for businesses

If the reports are right, you can now approve an agent's action with a tap on your wrist. Before you rely on that, decide which requests are safe to approve at a glance and which ones need a full screen and thirty seconds of your attention.

If you'd like help sorting your week into those two piles, New Face Design offers a free process audit.