Meta’s AI agent has arrived on the Apple Watch, but any potential benefits are outweighed by the inherent risk associated with the tool, not to mention the privacy implications.
Following its expansion to iPad in October 2026, Meta’s Muse received a companion app for Apple Watch. The change was disclosed via the App Store page for Muse, which details the changes in version 15.0 of the iOS app.
“Add Muse to your wrist with the new Apple Watch Companion app,” the description reads. On Apple Watch, users can now call and talk to Meta’s virtual assistant, send him messages, or use dictation with Muse.
The assistant can also perform tasks such as booking event tickets, among other things. Meta points out that Muse can be connected to other Meta apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as users’ calendar, email, and finance apps.
Meta says Muse can control subscriptions, track expenses, report forgotten charges, and more. However, entrusting your financial information to Meta’s virtual assistant is not exactly the best idea, to put it mildly.
Despite Meta’s claims that users can “approve actions before they happen,” Muse has been found to have a mind of its own. In September 2026, Muse synced 187,000 rows from a user’s Apple Messages database on macOS, despite full disk access being turned off.
Meta’s AI companion did this without permission. One can only imagine the data it could collect if it had access to someone’s financial information or data stored on an Apple Watch.
In fairness, at the bottom of Muse’s App Store page, Meta acknowledges that its AI agent “may be inaccurate or take unexpected actions.” Users are also asked to “check in” and “take action as needed.”
Of course, that hasn’t stopped Meta from pushing Muse across platforms and applications, with projects like Muse Code meant to take on Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Codex.
Given Meta’s history, however, Muse is an app best avoided on all platforms and devices. Siri AI is already available on Apple Watch, Mac, iPad, iPhone and other devices, and Apple’s long-standing commitments to privacy still stand.
