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Applebot-Extended

Honors robots.txt

Applebot-Extended controls whether crawled content can be used for Apple's generative AI features (Apple Intelligence), separate from Applebot itself, which powers Siri and Spotlight search indexing rather than generative AI training.

User-agent
Applebot-Extended
Operator
Apple

Allow in robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

Block in robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

Blocking Applebot-Extended does not affect Applebot itself, so you can stay indexed for Siri and Spotlight while opting out of Apple Intelligence training specifically.

Frequently asked questions

No — Applebot handles Siri/Spotlight search indexing; Applebot-Extended is the separate opt-out control for generative AI training use.

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