Applebot

Apple · Search engines · json

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenApplebot
User-agent containsApplebot
OperatorApple
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
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Published ranges33 IPv4 + 0 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Powers Siri, Spotlight and Safari suggestions. Blocking it is a search decision, not an AI decision — the AI decision has its own token.

What blocking it costs you

You disappear from Siri, Spotlight and Safari search suggestions across Apple's install base.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility