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Applebot

Also: Applebot-Extended, Apple crawler

Applebot is Apple's web crawler, powering Siri, Spotlight, and Safari search suggestions. A separate robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, controls whether your content may be used to train Apple's foundation models, without affecting Applebot's search crawling.

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Applebot identifies with the user agent Applebot and respects robots.txt. Allowing it lets Apple's assistant and search features reference your pages.

Applebot-Extended is not a separate crawler. Like Google-Extended, it is a robots.txt token: disallowing it opts your content out of training Apple Intelligence and Apple's foundation models while still letting Applebot crawl for Siri and Spotlight. The two decisions are independent.