Applebot-Extended
Apple's training opt-out. Blocking it keeps your content out of Apple foundation-model training and leaves Siri and Spotlight untouched.
| Operator | Apple |
|---|---|
| What it does | Model training |
| Obeys robots.txt | Yes, per its operator's docs |
| Governs | AI model training |
| Has a crawler | No — robots.txt token only, nothing fetches under this name |
| Last verified | 13 August 2026 |
What blocking it costs you
What to know
This is a robots.txt token only — there is no separate crawler behind it, so nothing can fetch-test it.
It is the clean version of the split that Google-Extended muddles: blocking it costs you no search visibility at all. Applebot governs whether Apple can find you; Applebot-Extended governs whether Apple can train on you.
The robots.txt rules
To block Applebot-Extended:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /To allow it explicitly — worth doing when your file also contains a blanket User-agent: * disallow, since the most specific matching group wins and a token with no group of its own falls back to the wildcard:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /If neither rule is present, Applebot-Extended is allowed. That is the default, and it is why an accidental block is nearly always something that was added rather than something that was forgotten — usually a snippet copied from a blog post that listed more tokens than the author intended to block.
Is it blocked on your site?
Your robots.txt is only the half you can read. A CDN or bot-management rule can turn Applebot-Extended away while your file still says it is welcome, and that mismatch is invisible from the front of the site. We check both layers separately and tell you which one is doing what.
We request two things: your robots.txt and your homepage. No other pages, ever.
Official sources
Other Apple tokens
- Applebot — Search & training