Applebot-Extended

Applebot-Extended is Apple's robots.txt control for opting out of Apple Intelligence and Apple's generative AI training, separate from classic Applebot used for Siri and Spotlight.

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Applebot-Extended lets publishers keep their content available to Apple's classic services (Siri, Spotlight, Safari suggestions) while opting out of Apple Intelligence training.

How it works

# Block Apple AI training, keep classic Applebot indexing
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# Allow everything
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

Apple bots cheat sheet

Applebot — Siri, Spotlight, Safari Suggestions index
Applebot-Extended — Apple Intelligence and generative AI control

These are controlled independently, mirroring the Google-Extended pattern.

Should you allow it?

Apple Intelligence ships on hundreds of millions of devices and is increasingly the default surface for on-device assistant queries. Most publishers allow Applebot-Extended for the same reasons they allow GPTBot and ClaudeBot — visibility in next-generation search experiences.