Applebot-Extended: Apple's AI training token
A product token, not a crawler: Applebot reads the rule for it.
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- A few seconds.
- Nothing is stored.
Applebot-Extended at a glance
Everything Apple documents about it, with links to the source.
- Operator
- Apple
- Type
- AI training
- Used for
- Apple Intelligence training; Applebot reads the rule
- Obeys robots.txt
- Applebot-Extended is a product token, not a crawler, so it never visits your site itself. Apple's main crawler reads the rule for it and honours it.
- robots.txt token
Applebot-Extended- User-agent string
- None. It is a token another crawler reads, so it never appears in your logs.
- IP addresses
- Not applicable.
- Documentation
- support.apple.com/en-us/119829
How to block Applebot-Extended
Collects text that may be used to train AI models. Blocking it keeps your pages out of future training data. AI answers can still cite you through the search crawlers.
Block the whole site
Add this group to robots.txt at the root of your site.
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /
Block only some paths
List the paths; everything else stays open to Applebot-Extended.
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /drafts/
Other crawlers from Apple
Each has its own token, and blocking one leaves the others untouched.
Frequently asked questions
A product token, not a crawler: Applebot reads the rule for it. It controls whether content Applebot crawls may be used to train Apple's foundation models for Apple Intelligence. Pages still appear in Spotlight, Siri and Safari results.
Applebot-Extended is a product token, not a crawler, so it never visits your site itself. Apple's main crawler reads the rule for it and honours it.
Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site: "User-agent: Applebot-Extended" followed by "Disallow: /". To close only part of the site, list those paths instead of "/".
No. Applebot-Extended is a training crawler: blocking it keeps your pages out of data that may train Apple's models. AI answers that cite pages come from search crawlers, which have their own tokens, so blocking Applebot-Extended alone does not remove you from them.
Checked against Apple's documentation on 29 September 2026.
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