Applebot
Apple · Search index; may feed model training
What Apple says it does
“The data crawled by Applebot is used to power various features, such as the search technology integrated into many user experiences in Apple's ecosystem including Spotlight, Siri, and Safari.”
The facts
| Operator | Apple |
| robots.txt token | Applebot |
| Appears in access logs | Yes |
| User-agent string | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot) |
| robots.txt | Honors robots.txt. Apple states Applebot respects standard robots.txt directives in general search crawls, follows Googlebot rules when Applebot is not mentioned, and does not follow crawl-delay. |
| IP list | https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json |
| Documentation | https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829, read 4 Aug 2026 |
Allow or block it in robots.txt
To block Applebot entirely:
User-agent: Applebot Disallow: /
To allow it everywhere:
User-agent: Applebot Allow: /
Verify a request is really Applebot
Reverse DNS resolves inside *.applebot.apple.com, or match the IP against the published CIDR list.
Apple also states crawled data may be used to help train Apple foundation models powering generative AI features, including Apple Intelligence. Opting out of that is a separate robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, which is a control token like Google-Extended and never appears in logs itself. Disallowing Applebot-Extended does not remove a site from Spotlight, Siri or Safari.
Observed on this property
Not observed here yet. This site logs every request from 15 named AI agents; logging began 4 Aug 2026. When Applebot first fetches a page, this section fills in from the log.