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AI training

Applebot-Extended

A robots.txt switch that opts your pages out of training Apple's foundation models.

robots.txt switch, never crawls
User agent token
Applebot-Extended
Operator
Apple
Verification
Not needed, it sends no requests
Source
Apple documentation

What an AI training crawler does

A training crawler gathers public pages that may end up in the data used to train AI models. It sends no visitors back, so blocking it is the usual choice for sites that don't want their content used that way.

It never crawls. Pages that block it can still appear in Apple search features.

Block or allow Applebot-Extended in robots.txt

Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.

Block Applebot-Extended

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

Allow Applebot-Extended

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

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Questions, answered.

Applebot-Extended is not a crawler. A robots.txt switch that opts your pages out of training Apple's foundation models.

Applebot-Extended never visits your site. It is a robots.txt name that Apple reads to decide how pages its other crawlers fetch may be used. It never crawls. Pages that block it can still appear in Apple search features.

Add "User-agent: Applebot-Extended" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.

There is nothing to verify: Applebot-Extended sends no requests.

No. Applebot-Extended never visits your site; it only decides whether Apple may use pages its other crawlers fetch for AI training.

Block it if you don't want Apple using your pages for AI training. Its search crawler keeps working, so your search rankings stay the same.

In its own documentation at https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829. Every fact on this page comes from there.

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