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Applebot-Extended

Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt control token from Apple, not a fetching crawler user-agent. It controls whether Applebot-crawled content may be used to train Apple foundation models.

Training only. Siri and Spotlight are unaffected.

Get the robots.txt ruleApple documentation
Is Applebot-Extended allowed on your site?2 Apple bots
  • Applebot-ExtendedTraining
    Not checked
  • ApplebotSearch
    Not checked

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

robots.txt token
Applebot-Extended
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
Seen on
Never fetches pages
Last checked
11 August 2026

Should you block Applebot-Extended?

Only if you want your pages kept out of training. Siri and Spotlight finds and cites pages through Applebot, which a Applebot-Extended rule does not touch.

What blocking each Apple bot does
Apple botJobIf you block it
Applebot-ExtendedThis pageControl 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.
ApplebotSearchBlocking Applebot can reduce visibility in Apple search experiences; use Applebot-Extended for training-use control.

From Apple’s documentationApple says Applebot-Extended does not affect appearance in Siri, Spotlight or Search. It only governs training use.

robots.txt
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

Opts out of the uses Applebot-Extended covers. Crawling for search carries on. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Applebot-Extended collects pages for model training. Training inclusion is not the same as being cited, so measure where AI answers actually cite your site before drawing conclusions from crawl logs.

Spot it in your logs.

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

It never appears in your logs

Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt token only. Apple’s regular crawler fetches the pages, and this token decides how they may be used.

  1. 1

    Match the name

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

  2. 2

    Check the applebot published IP ranges

    Genuine Apple crawling comes from Apple’s own network and resolves under applebot.apple.com. Requests carrying Applebot-Extended as a fetching user-agent do not. search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

Apple documents Applebot-Extended as a usage-control token that does not fetch pages. Trakkr measured 9,011 requests carrying it as a fetching user-agent across 20 monitored sites in the 30 days to 11 August 2026, none of them from Apple’s network, so treat any such request as unverified.

Questions, answered.

Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt control token from Apple, not a fetching crawler user-agent. It controls whether Applebot-crawled content may be used to train Apple foundation models.

Sources.

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

  1. [1]
    Apple crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 11 August 2026

    support.apple.com/en-us/119829

First verified 11 August 2026. Last source check 11 August 2026.

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