AI model crawlers
Applebot-Extended
Secondary user agent that does not crawl; it only governs whether data already crawled by Applebot may be used to train Apple's foundation models.
Dossier
- Operator
- Apple
- Documentation
- support.apple.com
- robots.txt token
Applebot-Extended- Feeds
- model training
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationDisallowing it does not remove pages from Apple search and is not a ranking factor. Apple says it does not crawl, so requests carrying this UA are not Apple.
- How to verify
- Published IP ranges and reverse DNSsearch.developer.apple.com
- Names in our logs
applebot-extended- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 5
- Days active
- 2 / 93
- First seen
- 25 Aug 2026
- Last seen
- 11 Sept 2026
Dormantother_bot
Identity check claimed vs verified
- No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- support.apple.comsupport.apple.com/en-us/119829