Applebot-Extended
Applebot-Extended controls whether Apple may use a site's content to train its models.
- Operated by
- Apple
- robots.txt token
Applebot-Extended- User-Agent sent
- None — Apple states this token is never sent as a User-Agent.
- Honours robots.txt
- Yes — Apple documents that it honours robots.txt.
This one is not on the answer path.
Applebot-Extended only controls whether Apple may use your content to train its models. Your site stays discoverable in Spotlight and Siri either way.
Whether to allow model training is a judgement call about your content, not a visibility decision — so this page does not make a recommendation either way.
Two lines in robots.txt.
Block Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /Goes in the robots.txt at the root of your domain.
Allow Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /Only needed if a broader rule already blocks it — a group of its own overrides the wildcard.
Group selection matches the token, not the full User-Agent string, and it is case-insensitive. A rule under User-agent: * applies only when the crawler has no group of its own.
Everything on this page was read from Apple’s own published source on . Read the source. Vendors change these pages without announcing it — if you find something here that no longer matches, tell us and we’ll correct it.
We run a crawler too. Here is what it does and how to block it.
Knowing what Applebot-Extended does doesn’t tell you whether your site lets it in.
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