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Applebot-Extended

AI Training Crawler Apple robots.txt behaviour unknown robots.txt token only — no crawler UA

Apple robots.txt control token for generative AI model training.

Allow Applebot-Extended in robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

Block Applebot-Extended in robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829

Is Applebot-Extended blocked on your site — even by accident?

Free dual-engine check: robots.txt verdicts for all 222 bots plus live User-Agent probes. Finds WAF blocks your robots.txt doesn't show.