Applebot
Crawls for Siri and Spotlight suggestions. AI-training use is controlled separately via Applebot-Extended.
| robots.txt token | Applebot |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
| Verification | Apple publishes IP ranges |
| Our recommendation | Allow — Siri/Spotlight visibility; training is opt-out-able without blocking this. |
Block Applebot with robots.txt
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be Applebot from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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