TL;DR: Meta's Muse AI agent is now available on Apple Watch and Wear OS, the company announced on Nov. 9, 2026, adding voice calls, text, dictation and an Apple Watch complication.
Meta's personal AI agent no longer requires a phone in hand. Meta confirmed on Nov. 9, 2026 that Muse works on Apple Watch and on smartwatches running Google's Wear OS, GadgetsNow reported. The Verge reporter Jay Peters covered the same launch in a post dated Nov. 10 at 12:09 a.m. UTC, and MacRumors reporter Juli Clover published her account of the Apple Watch release on Nov. 9.
The update reached users through two app stores. On iPhone, Meta's app moved to version 15.0, and the release notes read, "Add Muse to your wrist with the new Apple Watch Companion app," according to AppleInsider. On Android, Meta shipped the agent to Wear OS watches, with the company's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, announcing that release on X, All Things Muse reported. Meta's Muse account on X marked the arrival with a short post: "Works around the clock, and now on your wrist."
What Muse is
Muse is Meta's personal agent rather than a simple chatbot: it can carry out tasks for a user instead of only answering questions, MacRumors reported. It exists as a standalone app and is also built into Instagram, Facebook and other Meta apps, and MacRumors described the version people reach from a watch as a proactive agent.
Meta pitched the agent as one that can send emails, book travel, fill in forms and make purchases, and The Verge reported in September that Meta was adding computer use on Macs and control over an email address.
The agent launched on Sept. 8, 2026 for people 18 and older, the Associated Press reported, and the wire service noted that Meta emphasized safety and privacy at launch. Muse arrived with a free tier and two paid plans, Power at $20 a month and Maximum at $100 a month, TechCrunch reported. Meta made the agent available through iOS and Android apps, WhatsApp and the website muse.ai, and it runs on Meta's Muse Spark model, according to TechCrunch. Users choose which apps to connect, one at a time, and TechCrunch reported that a payment card is required to get started.
How Muse got to the wrist
In October, Muse reached the iPad, AppleInsider reported, and Sensor Tower estimated that the app had reached 10 million US downloads by Oct. 20, making it the 12th app to pass that mark within 40 days, The Verge reported. The Verge reported that Sensor Tower described a sizable advertising push by Meta as part of the explanation.
On Oct. 21, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Meta's earnings call that 10 million people had set up Muse agents and that about a quarter of them use the agent on any given day, The Verge reported.
The Verge reported that on Nov. 5 Meta began rolling out real-time voice conversations and animated avatars for the US app, a feature Zuckerberg announced, with the avatars moving in time with the words they speak. Users can adjust the voice by asking the agent or by picking options in settings, and Meta said the feature would reach its AI glasses soon, according to The Verge.
Meta also published open-source code in October that lets people build their own Muse devices, suggesting projects such as a small touchscreen unit resembling a homemade Muse Charm, The Verge reported.
How the update arrives on each platform
The Apple Watch app is part of the iPhone app rather than a separate download. GadgetsNow and ITmedia both reported that the App Store lists iOS 18.0 for the phone and watchOS 9.0 for the watch, and ITmedia reported that the Android app requires Android 10 or later. ITmedia added that Meta distributes the Apple Watch build through the App Store and the Wear OS build through Google Play, and that the app is free to download, with a paid plan available for extra features.
Three ways to reach Muse from the wrist
Meta's watch interface centers on the Muse character, a yeti-like figure that MacRumors reported has become popular and now appears front and center on the watch. Tapping the character opens three ways to communicate, according to GadgetsNow: call the agent and hold a spoken conversation, type an instruction or question if speaking is awkward, or dictate a message for Muse to work from.
MacRumors and GadgetsNow both reported a Muse complication, the watch-face element that opens the app with one tap. MacRumors noted that the watch design echoes the Muse Charm, the companion hardware Meta showed in September. Screenshots that All Things Muse reviewed show Muse filling the watch screen with call, chat and microphone buttons, and appearing as a small complication on a compass watch face.
Wear OS support arrives with fewer published details
Meta confirmed Wear OS support, and its store images show voice and text interactions on those watches, GadgetsNow reported. GadgetsNow also reported that the company indicated the experience would differ somewhat between the two platforms. What Meta has not published is a complete list of supported Wear OS models or a minimum Wear OS version, a gap that GadgetsNow and ITmedia both flagged, and ITmedia reported that the Wear OS listing does not state a required version. GadgetsNow's platform comparison marked the watch-face shortcut as confirmed on Apple Watch through complications and unconfirmed on Wear OS.
Meta has not confirmed an India launch date for Muse, GadgetsNow reported. ITmedia reported that Muse became available in Japan on Oct. 23.
What the agent can do from a wrist
Meta's store screenshots show the kind of request the wrist version is meant to handle. According to All Things Muse, one image has Muse telling the wearer that tickets just opened for a film they were tracking, offering 4:30 or 7:30 p.m. showings and beginning to book two seats for 7:30 p.m. once the user confirms. GadgetsNow described a Wear OS example in which Muse spots a conflict between a meeting and a dental appointment and proposes a change.
The broader task list carries over from the phone. GadgetsNow reported that Muse can manage email and calendar appointments, research information and products, help plan and book travel, organize shopping lists and complete some online tasks through connected services. AppleInsider reported that Meta also says the agent can audit subscriptions, track expenses and flag forgotten charges, and that it can link to Facebook, Instagram, calendar, email and finance apps.
ITmedia reported that Muse keeps working after the app closes and notifies the user when a task needs approval.
GadgetsNow noted that a watch is mainly another place to give Muse instructions and check replies, and that more involved work may still suit a smartphone.
The Muse Charm is still the hardware bet
The Verge noted in September that Muse had become a buzzy product for Meta less than a month after launch. At Meta Connect that month, Zuckerberg briefly displayed the Muse Charm, which The Verge described as looking like a chunky smartwatch without a strap, carried by a lanyard and fitted with a fingerprint sensor on the top right corner, a camera and at least three microphone openings across the front.
Zuckerberg said Charm owners would not need to unlock a phone or open an app to reach the agent, and he did not explain how the device connects to Meta's servers, The Verge reported. He said Meta planned to ship the Charm "in time for the holidays in December," while acknowledging that only a few units had been built and that the company still needed to settle on a finishing material. He described a translucent exterior that would reveal the gadget's internals and an aesthetic he called elevated hacker style, according to The Verge.
The Verge compared the device to the Rabbit R1, a similarly sized gadget built around an AI agent. The Verge reported on Nov. 5 that the Charm was still described as due to ship this year. When he showed the device in September, Zuckerberg said he would share more details soon.
Privacy and reliability questions follow the agent
Meta's App Store listing states that the agent may be inaccurate or take unexpected actions and advises users to check in and intervene when needed, AppleInsider reported. Meta has said people can approve actions before they happen, the outlet noted, but AppleInsider's Marko Zivkovic argued that the privacy implications outweigh the convenience and recommended against installing the watch app. His article cited a September 2026 episode in which Muse synced 187,000 lines from a user's Apple Messages database on macOS even though Full Disk Access was switched off. AppleInsider also noted that Siri AI already runs on Apple Watch, along with the Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Meta also re-enabled Muse conversation sharing on Oct. 22 after security researchers found that public links to conversations were easy to locate, The Verge reported. Researchers at Claroc said they had found pages including a marketing company's internal revenue review and a small business owner's loan application, and Ars Technica reported that Meta had paused the feature.
What is still unanswered
Meta has not published the roster of supported Wear OS watches or a minimum Wear OS version, GadgetsNow and ITmedia reported. GadgetsNow also reported that Meta has not clearly said whether the smartwatch app can work independently of a paired phone.
For now, the confirmed wrist features are call, text, dictation and, on Apple Watch, a complication that opens the app.