# Applebot

Apple's crawler: what it does, robots.txt handling per the operator, and observed behaviour on this property.

- Operator: Apple
- Purpose: Search index; may feed model training | operator's words: "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."
- robots.txt token: `Applebot`
- Appears in access logs: yes
- User-agent: `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
- Verification: Reverse DNS resolves inside *.applebot.apple.com, or match the IP against the published CIDR list.
- Documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 (read 2026-08-04)
- Note: 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.

Block it:
```
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /
```

Observed on this property (logged since 2026-08-04):
- Not observed here yet.

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