Applebot
Apple · search. Apple's crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions. The separate token Applebot-Extended is used only to opt out of Apple-Intelligence training without losing search visibility.
- name
- Applebot
- operator
- Apple
- purpose
- search
- ua_substring
- Applebot
- robots_token
- Applebot
- respects_robots
- yes
- verify
- Apple publishes Applebot IP ranges and documents reverse-DNS verification; confirm the source IP resolves to an Apple-controlled host (see documentation_url).
- notes
- Apple's crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions. The separate token Applebot-Extended is used only to opt out of Apple-Intelligence training without losing search visibility.
- canonical_name
- Applebot
- user_agent_token
- Applebot
- ua_full
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- bot_type
- search-index
- bot_type_extension
- —
- opt_out_mechanism
- robots.txt disallow (User-agent: Applebot); use Applebot-Extended to opt out of AI training only
- published_ip_range_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- asn
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- reverse_dns_suffix
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- supports_web_bot_auth
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- signature_agent_domain
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- jwks_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- verification_methods
published-IP-rangereverse-DNS- crawl_traffic_share
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- targeted_content_type
- HTML, text
- documentation_url
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- first_seen_date
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- last_verified_date
- 2026-07-06
- block_vs_allow_recommendation
- conditional — powers Siri and Spotlight search; allow to be discoverable there, or use Applebot-Extended to opt out of training while keeping search.
- citation_referral_value
- medium (feeds Siri and Spotlight surfaces)
- cloudflare_verified_category
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- status
- active
- triples
["Applebot","operated_by","Apple"]["Applebot","has_bot_type","search-index"]["Applebot","verified_via","published-IP-range"]["Applebot","verified_via","reverse-DNS"]- attribute_sources
{"claims":["user_agent_token","robots_token"],"source":"https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt","last_verified":"2026-07-06"}{"claims":["operator","purpose","documentation_url","respects_robots"],"source":"https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829","last_verified":"2026-07-06"}
last verified · by Özden Erdinc