Meta announced on 9th November, 2026 that its Muse AI agent now runs on Apple Watch and Android’s Wear OS. Users can reach the assistant by voice call, text message, or dictation from the wrist.
What Happened?
- Meta’s Muse AI agent now runs on Apple Watch and Wear OS, with voice calls, text messages, and dictation.
- The Apple Watch app adds the Muse character and a complication, which is a quick-access shortcut.
- Muse is one of just 12 apps to pass 10 million U.S. downloads within its first 40 days on the App Store.
- Meta added Spaces and U.S. video chat with the Muse avatar in the days before the watch launch.
Muse arrives on Apple Watch and Wear OS
Meta announced the launch on Monday. Users on both platforms can talk to the assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation directly on the smartwatch.
According to MacRumors, Meta updated the Muse app for iOS the same day to add Apple Watch support. The watch app puts the Muse character on the wrist with options to text it, dictate to it, or call it. A Muse complication, which is a watch shortcut, gives quick access. The yeti-like character Meta designed for Muse has become popular and sits front and center on the watch.
The watch design resembles the Muse Charm, a companion device Meta announced in September. Muse is also a standalone app and is built into Instagram, Facebook, and other Meta apps. That makes the watch one more way in to the same agent.
Works around the clock, and now on your wrist. Muse is now on Apple Watch and Wear OS ⌚️ https://t.co/97QRap5XKz
— Muse (@Muse) November 9, 2026
Meta keeps stacking features onto Muse
Muse first launched on the App Store in September. Meta added an iPad app about a month before the watch launch, and Spaces arrived in recent days. Each Space is a custom experience, a mini app built on the fly, that appears in the Muse sidebar. It opens a focused conversation where the agent works toward a goal for the user.
Meta let U.S. users video chat with their Muse avatar last week. Users can restyle that avatar into a person, an animal, or another type of character. Meta said the avatar uses “subtle expressions and gestures” that reflect the tone and context of the conversation. Muse does not see users, but it hears them and responds in real time.
The early download pace puts Muse in a short club. Only 11 other apps have passed 10 million U.S. downloads in their first 40 days, and Threads was the latest in July 2023.
The rollout follows the screens Apple users already own: the iPhone first, then the iPad, now the watch. The Wear OS version extends it to Android watches. Muse is one of dozens of consumer-facing AI agents competing for attention. A presence on every device could lower the effort of opening it.
Like many rivals, Muse lets users connect accounts to manage email, meetings, and bills. It also handles tasks such as booking reservations, ordering groceries, setting goals, and making purchases. A watch app that accepts voice calls and dictation could put those actions closer to hand. The launch details do not say which tasks work from the watch.
The launch leaves four questions open
The available launch details cover the Apple Watch app far more than the Wear OS app. Several points remain open on both:
- Which Wear OS watches support the Muse app?
- Whether the watch app works without a paired phone?
- Whether Muse on the watch carries any cost?
- Which countries get the watch app, since Muse video chat launched for U.S. users?
Users who already linked email, meeting, or billing accounts to Muse can review which accounts the agent reaches before adding another device. That check helps reduce risk with an agent that can make purchases.
The watch is the third Apple device to get a Muse app, after the iPhone and iPad. Whether account links and purchase permissions carry over to the wrist is not stated in the material released so far.
