Applebot-Extended
Operated by Apple · Not a crawler — a robots.txt token
If you block it
You opt out of training. Apple says your content will remain discoverable through Spotlight, Siri and Safari, and that rules for Applebot-Extended are not considered in ranking for Search.
What Apple says it is for
Controls whether content already crawled by Applebot may be used to train Apple’s foundation models, including Apple Intelligence.
Published details
- robots.txt
- Says it respects robots.txt“It is a robots.txt setting, not a crawler. Apple: “Applebot-Extended does not crawl webpages.””
- User agent
- None — it never sends a request.
- Verification
- No published method.Nothing to verify: it never sends a request.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 Read .