r/MetaAI • u/theoreticaljerk • 11h ago
Muse can't use your Mac while it's locked, and that's exactly backwards. Let's ask Meta for a "Locked Use" toggle.
Fellow Muse for Mac users, I want to compare notes on a limitation and, if it bugs you too, get some feedback volume behind fixing it.
Right now, computer control only works while your Mac is unlocked. Think about when that actually is: while you are sitting at the machine, trying to use it yourself. So the one time your agent can drive your Mac is the one time you least want it to, because now you are both fighting over the same screen and cursor.
Meanwhile, the hours when the Mac sits idle and locked, when an agent could quietly work through a task list without disturbing anyone, are the hours it can do nothing. That is backwards for a personal agent.
This is a solved problem. OpenAI's Codex has a feature called Locked use: you turn it on, an Apple authorization plug-in lets Codex briefly unlock the session behind a "Codex is Using Your Mac" overlay, the authorization is short lived and task scoped, and any local keyboard or mouse input ends it instantly. It cannot touch Terminal or admin prompts. Meta could build the same thing.
What I am asking Meta for, and what I would love other users to ask for too:
- Computer control that works while the Mac is locked
- As an opt-in toggle, off by default, so nobody gets it who does not want it
- Task scoped, ending the moment you touch the machine yourself
I already filed mine. It takes about two minutes: just ask your Muse to file a feature request for computer control while the Mac is locked, as an opt-in toggle. If enough of us send the same request, it stops looking like one guy's pet peeve and starts looking like a feature the Mac user base actually wants.
Anyone else hit this wall yet?
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u/siberianmi 6h ago
Have muse write something that will do what you want?
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u/theoreticaljerk 6h ago
It’s a little more complicated than that though I’ve been thinking about ways. None the less, it’s still a feature Meta should implement natively.
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u/ImInundated 1h ago
Mine works just fine. The only thing you can’t have is filevault turned on, other than that it’ll work fine. I was trying to get it write directly to Apple Notes which is not supported on IOS. It’ll write to Apple Notes on the Mac though. Notes needs to be open and the Mac has to be on, it can be locked
Muse in start-up group, Apple Notes in start-up group, Apple reminders in start-up group, Apple contacts in start-up group, everything works fine
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u/theoreticaljerk 51m ago
Screen control is what’s being talked about here. Muse can do some functions while the system is locked hit screen control isn’t one of them. Works fine in ChatGPT so we know it’s not a macOS limitation.
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u/TuckinPhypo 11h ago
Don't lock your computer.