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Last verified: 2026-07-16 · maintained by Unsourced
Applebot-Extended controls whether Apple uses your content for its generative AI (Apple Intelligence). It extends Applebot, which also serves Siri and Spotlight suggestions.
Applebot-Extended is a permission token rather than a separate crawler: it governs whether content already gathered by Applebot may feed Apple's generative features such as Apple Intelligence. Applebot itself keeps serving Siri and Spotlight regardless, so opting out of the Extended scope drops you from AI training while leaving those classic surfaces working. It's the Apple-ecosystem way to go AI-out without going search-dark.
Apple publishes no machine-readable IP-range feed for Applebot-Extended, so the dependable check is reverse DNS. A genuine request's IP reverse-resolves to apple.com, applebot.apple.com, and that hostname forward-resolves back to the same IP — the round trip is what confirms it. A Applebot-Extended user-agent from an address that won't forward-confirm is an impostor.
Recommended: keep. Applebot-Extended is a permission token, not a traffic source: a disallow opts you out of Apple's generative-AI use only, while Applebot keeps serving Siri and Spotlight — so you can go AI-out without going search-dark.
If you do choose to act in robots.txt (which crawlers honour but don't enforce):
# Applebot-Extended: recommended to ALLOW — blocking can cost you AI visibility User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow:
Does Applebot-Extended crawl my site?
Not on its own — it's a permission token, not a separate crawler. It governs whether content Applebot already gathered may feed Apple's generative features such as Apple Intelligence.
Will opting out of Applebot-Extended break Siri or Spotlight?
No. Applebot keeps serving Siri and Spotlight regardless — disallowing the Extended scope only removes you from Apple's AI training, so you go AI-out without going search-dark.
How do I verify Applebot?
By reverse DNS — a genuine Applebot request resolves to apple.com or applebot.apple.com and forward-confirms back to the same IP.
Unsourced audits the requests reaching your site, separates genuine Apple traffic from spoofed headers, and tracks whether AI answers cite you.
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