Claim 14
Apple uses one crawler token, Applebot, for search crawling and for training crawling, and a second robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, that opts content out of training use.
- entity
- Applebot
- field
- separate_search_and_training_tokens
- value
partial- statement
- Apple uses one crawler token, Applebot, for search crawling and for training crawling, and a second robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, that opts content out of training use.
- evidence_url
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
- evidence_quote
- "Web publishers can opt-out from having their content used to train generative foundation models by disallowing Applebot-Extended in the robots.txt file." source dated 2026-09-04
- method
- vendor_doc
- verified_at
- 2026-09-13
- confidence
- high
- status
- current
- supersedes
- none
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