Applebot
Operated by Apple · Builds a search index · Trains a model
If you block it
You disappear from search results for Apple users — Spotlight, Siri and Safari.
What Apple says it is for
Powers search in Spotlight, Siri and Safari. Apple also says the data may be used to help train Apple foundation models.
Published details
- robots.txt
- Says it respects robots.txt“Applebot respects standard robots.txt directives in general search crawls that are targeted at Applebot”
- User agent
- Not published as a full string. Apple publishes only the token.Match on the prefix
Applebot/rather than the whole string: operators version these, and an exact match stops working on the next release. - Verification
- Reverse DNS to
*.applebot.apple.com, then forward-resolve that name back to the same address. - Published address list: http://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
- Reverse DNS to
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 Read .