Apple · Training crawlers
Applebot-Extended
A robots.txt token, not a crawler: it decides whether data crawled by Applebot may be used to train Apple's foundation models. Blocking it does not remove your site from Apple search results.
- robots.txt name
Applebot-Extended- User agent
Applebot-Extended- Category
- Training crawlers: Collect public pages that may be used to train AI models.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
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-Extended
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent, and Apple does not publish IP ranges for this bot. A reverse DNS lookup of the IP address may help; check the official documentation.
Other bots from Apple
- Applebot · Search indexes
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