Muse privacy settings: the 5-minute setup that matters

The five settings, in order

1. 1Setup → Data Controls → “Help us improve our models” → OFF. The single highest-value toggle on the device. This is what stops your prompts becoming training data.
2. 2Settings → Connectors → disconnect what you are not using. Fewer connections, smaller blast radius. Add back only when a task demands it.
3. 3Settings → Permissions → every write action to “allow once”. Covered properly in the permissions guide.
4. 4Check how payments are stored. Meta has said card numbers can be held as one-time tokens via Link, and that a credential store (1Password-style) is coming. Prefer tokenised cards; never paste a full PAN into a chat.
5. 5Read the audit trail once. Settings → Permissions → history. You want to see what you expected to see before anything else is connected.

What Meta says vs what to assume

The gap between those two columns is your working risk tolerance. Close it with fewer connections and tighter approvals, not with optimism.

Handling something sensitive: email, money, health

The pattern is identical across all three: read-only, scoped, approved, audited. If you cannot say what would happen if the agent misunderstood, you are not ready to connect it.

For businesses: privacy defaults per account

Individual opt-outs do not compose into an organisation policy. Before rollout:

• Set training opt-out on every account, then verify by opening Settings on a second machine — defaults reset with some updates.
• Decide which data classes may never enter a prompt: credentials, customer PII, health data, account numbers.
• One connector per team member to start, read-only, written into the permissions policy.
• Name the person who reads the audit trail weekly. Not a shared inbox — a person.
• Include Muse in offboarding: connectors revoked the day a role changes.

We set these defaults with you in one session — request a session.

Delete my data / delete my account

There is no single “delete my Muse account” button. Meta gives you three levels, and they do very different things. Pick the level that matches what you actually want — and read the warning at the bottom before touching Reset.

1. 1Delete one thing. To delete a message: tap and hold it, tap Delete, confirm. To delete a side chat: in the Chats tab, tap the three-dot menu on the chat, tap Delete, confirm. To edit or delete what Muse remembers about you: Assistant icon → Identity → Memory, and edit the file directly. Identity works the same way: Assistant icon → Identity → Edit.
2. 2Reset Muse — the true wipe. Settings → Data Controls → Reset (labelled “Reset Muse”), then follow the on-screen instructions and tap Reset to confirm. This returns Muse to its original state and permanently deletes all information: chat history, files, and active tasks. It cannot be undone. Before you do it, download a copy of your data first: Settings → Data Controls → download your Muse information. And cancel any paid subscription separately — resetting does not cancel billing.
3. 3Delete your Meta account — the only way to remove Muse completely. There is no way to delete Muse on its own. Deleting your Meta account in Accounts Center deletes all information associated with the account, including Muse — and Facebook and Instagram along with it. Export first: Accounts Center → Your information and permissions → Export your information.

Deleting the app from your phone does none of this. Your Muse data lives in its cloud virtual machine, not on your phone — uninstalling leaves everything intact. Reset in Data Controls is the only action that permanently deletes it.