# Applebot-Extended

> Apple's counterpart to Google-Extended: a robots.txt token that withdraws consent for Apple Intelligence and Apple foundation-model training, without touching Applebot's search crawl.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Apple |
| category | AI training crawlers |
| robots.txt token | `Applebot-Extended` |
| user-agent contains | `(control token only — no crawler)` |
| robots.txt | control token only — no crawler |
| verify by | no published verification method |
| published IP ranges | none published |
| prefixes mirrored | 0 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Excluded from Apple Intelligence training. Siri, Spotlight and Safari suggestions are unaffected.

## Full user-agent string

```
(none: Applebot-Extended never appears as a user-agent)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/applebot-extended.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt