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Applebot-Extended
Apple, a training and dataset crawler
- Operator
- Apple
- Type
- Model training and datasets
- Sent as a user agent
- No, a robots.txt token only
- Follows robots.txt
- Not confirmed
- Details
- Not yet checked against the operator's own documentation
What it does
Opt-out token for Apple's AI training. Siri and Spotlight indexing continue.
We have not yet checked this page against Apple's own documentation. Check it before you rely on it.
Block it in robots.txt
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /
To allow it again, remove those lines or use Allow: /. Rules for other bots are not affected.
Block it on your server
Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt control token. It is never sent as a user agent, so server rules cannot block it. Use robots.txt.
Source
No official documentation link has been confirmed yet.