How to Disconnect Apps from Muse (and Delete Your Account)

Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, only works because you hand it connections — your email, your calendar, your accounts. So the natural follow-up question is how to take those connections back. The official answer is reassuring in principle: Meta says people "can change access or disconnect a service whenever they want." The practical answer is messier: as of September 14, 2026, Meta has published no step-by-step Muse settings guide, so this page separates what's confirmed from what's inferred, and flags anything unverified as such.

What's officially confirmed about disconnecting

Two things, both from Meta's launch announcement:

• You control the connections. "People choose which apps Muse connects to and exactly how much access it gets."
• You can revoke them. People "can change access or disconnect a service whenever they want."

The control is also granular. For email, Meta says you choose read-only access versus permission to send on your behalf — so reducing access is an option short of full disconnection.

How to disconnect an app from Muse (hedged steps)

Here's the honest part: Meta has published no official Muse settings documentation, so nobody outside Meta can print a verified menu path. The steps below match Meta's own description of how the product works, but treat the specifics as unverified — they are not officially documented:

1. Open the Muse app (or muse.ai) and go to settings.
2. Look for connected services, apps, or connections.
3. Select the service you want to cut and choose disconnect — or first reduce its access level.
4. Confirm, then check the audit trail to see what that service had been used for.

If you can't find a control where you expect it, that's a documentation gap on Meta's side, not you missing something.

One documented exception: Instagram. After The Verge's hands-on found Muse building interest profiles from Instagram activity, a Meta spokesperson confirmed users can disconnect Instagram in Accounts Center — the shared account-settings area in the Facebook and Instagram apps. That's currently the only disconnect route Meta has publicly named, and it's worth knowing it lives outside the Muse app.

The "can't connect Facebook" problem

Some users report the reverse of disconnection: they try to connect Facebook to Muse and it fails. Reports along the lines of "can't connect Facebook account" have appeared in r/MetaAI community threads in the days after launch. Meta hasn't officially acknowledged the problem, and no official fix has been published.

Context that helps: Muse requires a Meta account — the same login family as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (see our login guide). A Facebook connection failing while the rest of the app works looks like launch friction, not something you did wrong. Things that have helped with other launch-week connection problems:

• Update the app to the latest store version — iOS has already shipped several updates, including v7.0 on September 12, described only as "improvements and bug fixes."
• Confirm you're signing in with the right Meta account.
• Retry later. Rollout and connection glitches have been clearing on their own.

More fixes live in our troubleshooting guide.

Turn off vs. disconnect vs. delete

These are three different levers, and search results tend to blur them:

Action	What it does	Status
Turn off / stop using	Stop giving Muse tasks and stop opening the app. If "turn off" means silencing proactive messages, no such setting is documented.	Not officially documented
Disconnect a service	Revoke one app's access (email, Instagram, and so on). Muse keeps running without it.	Officially confirmed capability; in-app path not documented
Delete your account	Remove the Meta account Muse runs on — which ends Muse along with your other Meta apps.	Official Meta-wide process; no Muse-specific deletion page

A note on "turn off": Meta's design materials describe Muse as proactive — it "comes back when something changes or when it needs approval" and messages you on its own schedule. Whether you can dial that behavior down in settings is not officially documented as of September 14, 2026. The closest confirmed off-switch that stops the agent from acting on your life is disconnecting your services — that leaves a chat-only assistant that can still talk but can't touch your accounts.

Softer controls before you delete anything

If your concern is what Muse knows or does — rather than leaving the product entirely — these confirmed controls are less drastic:

• Tell it to "forget." You can tell Muse to forget specific things it has learned.
• Edit Memory files directly. Meta's design post says memory files are readable and editable by you.
• Read the audit trail. It shows everything Muse has done and plans to do — the source of truth for what actually happened to your connected accounts.
• Reduce access instead of revoking it. Read-only email instead of send permission, using the access-level controls Meta says it offers.

Our privacy and safety guide covers the full control set, and the opt-out guide covers training use and Instagram data specifically.

Deleting your account: what it actually means

There is no Muse-specific deletion flow. Muse has no account of its own — it signs in with your Meta account, the same identity behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Deleting that account through Meta's account center therefore removes the account Muse runs on.

Two warnings before you go that route:

1. It doesn't just affect Muse. Meta account deletion is account-wide: your Facebook profile, Instagram, and WhatsApp live on the same identity. If you only want Muse gone, disconnection — not deletion — is the tool that matches the goal.
2. There's no Muse-only deletion page. As of September 14, 2026, Meta hasn't published a way to delete Muse data alone, and data-retention details after deletion aren't documented. Read everything Meta's deletion flow tells you before confirming — it governs far more than this one app.

If your actual goal is narrower — stop training use, cut Instagram inference, reduce what the agent retains — start with the opt-out controls instead. Deleting a Meta account to escape one app is demolishing the house to evict a houseguest.

Keep reading

• Muse opt-out guide: training, Instagram data, and every control explained
• Muse AI privacy and safety: Secure VM, Sentinel, approvals explained
• Muse AI not working? Common problems and fixes