Apple · Search indexes
Applebot
Powers search in Spotlight, Siri and Safari, and its data may also be used to train Apple's foundation models. Blocking it removes your site from those results; to opt out of training only, block Applebot-Extended.
- robots.txt name
Applebot- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)- Category
- Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- Published IP ranges
- https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from Apple, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.
Other bots from Apple
- Applebot-Extended · Training crawlers
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