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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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