Bots by company
Apple bots and crawlers
Apple runs Applebot for Siri, Spotlight and Safari search features, and Applebot-Extended as a training opt-out token.
Apple bots at a glance
- Apple runs 2 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers, AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Apple bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.apple.com
Every Apple bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applebot | Search Engine Crawlers | AI trainingAI searchSearch indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Applebot-Extended | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
Block or allow all Apple bots
The rules below name every Apple token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Apple bots
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Apple bots
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Apple bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Apple bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Applebot|Applebot\-Extended)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Apple bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Applebot|Applebot\-Extended) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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