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AppleAI search crawler

Applebot

Applebot is an Apple crawler for search experiences across Spotlight, Siri, Safari, and related Apple surfaces.

Needed to be found and cited in Siri and Spotlight.

Get the robots.txt ruleApple documentation
Is Applebot allowed on your site?2 Apple bots

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
Applebot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
Last checked
11 June 2026

Should you block Applebot?

Not if you want to be found in Siri and Spotlight. Blocking Applebot can reduce visibility in Apple search experiences; use Applebot-Extended for training-use control.

What blocking each Apple bot does
Apple botJobIf you block it
Applebot-ExtendedControl tokenDisallowing it opts out of Apple generative AI training use while pages can still appear in Apple search results. Requests that carry this token as a fetching user-agent are not Apple.
ApplebotThis pageSearchBlocking Applebot can reduce visibility in Apple search experiences; use Applebot-Extended for training-use control.

From Apple’s documentationApplebot powers search in Siri, Spotlight and Safari.

robots.txt
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

Asks Applebot not to crawl any page. Other Apple bots are unaffected. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Whether to allow Applebot is a policy call. Either way, check which AI platforms actually send you human visitors before assuming crawl volume equals value.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

Published Applebot formatsource
Mozilla/5.0 (Device; OS_version) AppleWebKit/WebKit_version (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/Safari_version Safari/WebKit_version (Applebot/Applebot_version; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

Version numbers change. Match the highlighted name, not the whole string.

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    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for Applebot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

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    Check the published IP ranges and reverse DNS

    Genuine Applebot comes from Apple’s own network and its hostname ends in applebot.apple.com. search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json

Is this really Applebot?

Addresses and reverse DNS

No log handy?

Paste an address that claims to be Applebot. It is checked against Apple’s published list and its reverse DNS. Nothing is stored.

Check any crawler’s address

It runs JavaScript

Apple says Applebot can render content in a browser and may use JavaScript to render pages.

Rendering source

How active is Applebot?

Measured across the sites connected to Trakkr, 27 July 2026 to 25 October 2026.

51%

of connected sites saw Applebot in the four weeks to 25 October 2026. That is 53 of 104.

100%75%50%25%51%
Applebot visited between 32% and 51% of connected sites each week from 27 July 2026 to 25 October 2026.

Share of connected sites it visited each week

Rank by reach
7 of 26
Typical site, per week
127 requests
Sites reached, 13 weeks
65 of 135

Most widespread AI crawlers

Share of connected sites each one visited, last four weeks.

  1. 1OAI-SearchBot84%
  2. 2ClaudeBot84%
  3. 3GPTBot67%
  4. 4Amazonbot61%
  5. 5ChatGPT-User56%
  6. 6PerplexityBot56%
  7. 7Applebot51%
  8. 8Bytespider48%
All 26 measured crawlers
How this is measured

Finalized daily crawler summaries from sites connected to Trakkr, grouped by the crawler named in each request. Trakkr’s own site is excluded. A site counts as reached in a week when it logged at least one request from Applebot. The typical figure is the median weekly requests among the sites it reached.

  • This is a sample of connected sites, not the whole web.
  • A matching user-agent does not prove the named operator sent the request.
  • Requests are not unique pages, training use or citations.
  • Crawlers seen on fewer than 10 sites are not shown. Classic search crawlers such as Googlebot are not collected on every site, so they are left out.

Questions, answered.

Applebot is an Apple crawler for search experiences across Spotlight, Siri, Safari, and related Apple surfaces.

Sources.

Officially documented. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

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    Apple crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 11 June 2026

    support.apple.com/en-us/119829

First verified 11 June 2026. Last source check 11 June 2026. Activity measured to 25 October 2026.

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