Applebot-Extended
by Apple
Training crawlers · Model data
A robots.txt control to opt out of Applebot-crawled content being used to train Apple's AI models.
Applebot-Extended doesn't crawl pages itself; it only tells Apple how data collected by Applebot may be used.
Crawlers (or robots.txt controls) that collect public content used to train AI models.
Control it with robots.txt
Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt control only: add these lines to opt out.
robots.txt
User-agent: Applebot-Extended 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.