AI bots · Search
Applebot
Powers search in Spotlight, Siri and Safari. Crawled data may also be used for Apple Intelligence answers and, unless Applebot-Extended is disallowed, model training.
- Run by
- Apple
- Type
- Search bot
- robots.txt token
Applebot- 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)- Honours robots.txt
- Yes. If robots.txt does not mention Applebot but mentions Googlebot, Applebot follows the Googlebot rules. This checker applies that fallback.
- Official docs
- support.apple.com
- Published IP list
- search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
Block it
User-agent: Applebot Disallow: /
Allow it
User-agent: Applebot Allow: /
A named group replaces the * group for this bot, so repeat any private-path Disallow lines in it. Firewalls (Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, Vercel AI Bots ruleset) can block it even when robots.txt allows it. See fixes per stack.
Other Apple bots
- Applebot-Extended (training)
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