Applebot
by Apple
Search indexes · Discovery
Powers search features across Apple products, such as Spotlight, Siri and Safari suggestions.
Crawlers that build the search indexes used by search engines and AI search features.
Control it with robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers read robots.txt before crawling. To block Applebot on your whole site:
robots.txt
User-agent: Applebot Disallow: /
Blocking AI search and answer crawlers can also remove your pages from AI answers and citations. Weigh traffic from AI assistants before blocking them. Official documentation: support.apple.com.