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Applebot-Extended
Not a crawler: a robots.txt name Apple reads to decide whether content Applebot collects may be used to train Apple's generative AI models. Blocking it doesn't remove you from Siri or Spotlight.
- Run by
- Apple
- Type
- AI training crawler
- Robots.txt name
Applebot-Extended- Verifiable
- No
What Applebot-Extended does
Not a crawler: a robots.txt name Apple reads to decide whether content Applebot collects may be used to train Apple's generative AI models. Blocking it doesn't remove you from Siri or Spotlight.
As an AI training crawler, it collects public pages that may be used to train AI models. The kinds of AI agent that visit websites.
Should you allow it?
A real business choice. Lean towards blocking if your content is the product (publishing, research, courses); lean towards allowing if your pages exist to sell something else. A decision guide for blocking or allowing AI crawlers.
How to allow or block Applebot-Extended
Applebot-Extended is only a name in robots.txt, so this is the only way to control it. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere, even if another rule blocks other bots:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /Robots.txt is a request, not a lock: well-behaved crawlers follow it, impostors don't. Robots.txt for AI agents.
How to tell if it's really Applebot-Extended
Apple doesn't publish IP ranges or a reverse DNS domain for Applebot-Extended, so a request can't be proven to come from it. Anyone can send its user agent, so treat the name alone as a claim, not proof. Ghost Agent Lab reports these requests as unverified rather than guessing.
Other agents from Apple
- Applebot: AI and search crawler
Every Apple agent, and a robots.txt for all of them →
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