Meta has brought its Muse AI assistant to Apple Watch and Android’s Wear OS. Users can now interact with Muse from a smartwatch through voice calls, text messages, or dictation, putting the assistant within reach without opening a phone or tablet app.
A new way to reach Muse
The smartwatch launch gives Muse another place in Meta’s growing consumer AI offering. On a watch, the interaction is centered on quick access: users can speak, send a message, or dictate directly from their wrist.
Meta announced the expansion on Monday. It follows the release of a dedicated iPad app just a month earlier, after Muse first appeared on the App Store in September. Together, these launches show Meta extending the assistant across Apple devices as it works to make Muse a more central part of its ecosystem.
An assistant for everyday tasks
Muse is one of dozens of consumer-facing AI agents seeking users’ attention. Its capabilities reach beyond answering prompts: users can connect accounts to manage email, meetings, and bills, and ask it to handle tasks such as booking reservations, ordering groceries, setting goals, and making purchases.
That range helps explain why access across devices matters. A smartwatch adds another point of contact for people using Muse, while the assistant’s account connections and task features give it work to do beyond a single conversation. The source does not detail which tasks can be completed directly from the watch.
Users can also customize Muse’s avatar. It can be changed to resemble a person, an animal, or another kind of character, giving users control over how the assistant appears.
New features arrive in quick succession
The wearable release is part of a run of new Muse capabilities. A few days ago, Meta launched Spaces, which organize conversations around specific topics. Meta describes them as “custom experiences”: mini apps built on the fly that appear in the Muse interface sidebar and support a focused conversation aimed at a particular goal.
Last week, Meta also rolled out video chat with a Muse AI avatar for users in the U.S. Meta said the avatar uses “subtle expressions and gestures” that reflect the conversation’s tone and context as it speaks. Muse does not actually see users, but it can hear them and respond in real time.
These additions point to an assistant designed for different kinds of interaction: task-focused spaces, spoken video conversations, and now access from a smartwatch. The launches broaden how people can use Muse, while the available details leave open how its different features work together across devices.
Early growth and a wider footprint
Muse’s expansion comes despite being a relatively new product. Shortly after launch, it became one of just 12 mobile apps to surpass 10 million U.S. downloads within their first 40 days in the App Store. Only 11 other apps had reached that milestone; Meta’s Threads was the most recent, in July 2023.
The download milestone and the steady stream of product updates show why Meta is putting Muse on more screens. The Apple Watch and Wear OS releases add a convenient route to the assistant, while Spaces, video chat, and connected-account tasks give users more ways to put it to use. Whether those options become a regular part of users’ routines will depend on how well the assistant fits into the devices and activities they already rely on.