Apple
Applebot-Extended
Documented Provider-maintained crawler reference.
Reference facts
- Provider
- Apple
- Provider identifier
- Neutral OpenForBots monogram
- robots.txt token
Applebot-Extended- Purpose
- Data-use control
- Crawls pages
- No
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes — documented by provider
- Search-visibility relevance
- Not direct
- Status
- active
- Information checked
Recommended policy notes
- Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt control over use of content for Apple foundation models and is not a separate page-crawling user agent.
- Disallowing it does not by itself block Applebot from search-oriented crawling.
Common misconceptions
- That Applebot-Extended is an ordinary crawler or that blocking it removes a site from Apple search experiences.