Applebot
AI search indexerApple's web crawler, feeding Siri and Spotlight suggestions. Content it fetches can also be used for Apple Intelligence features unless you opt out via Applebot-Extended.
| Operator | Apple |
| Type | AI search indexer |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes (documented) |
| Documentation | Official operator documentation |
Applebot user-agent string
This is how Applebot identifies itself in your server logs:
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)How to block Applebot in robots.txt
Add this to the robots.txt file at the root of your site:
Block Applebot
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /Explicitly allow Applebot
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /What blocking changes: Blocking Applebot removes your site from Siri and Spotlight results. To stay in those but opt out of AI training, block Applebot-Extended instead.
Want to decide for all AI bots at once? Use the AI robots.txt generator.
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