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Applebot-Extended

Apple policy token, purpose: training.

Identity

vendor
Apple
kind
policy_token
purpose
training
ua_token
(none, see notes)
robots_token
Applebot-Extended
ip_list_url
(none published)
docs_url
https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
status
active

Robots.txt token that controls whether content already crawled by Applebot may be used to train Apple foundation models. Vendor documentation states Applebot-Extended does not crawl web pages: it is a policy token, not an observable crawler.

Claims

FieldValueConfidence
honours_crawl_delayn/an/a
publishes_ip_listnomedium
purpose_documentedpolicy_onlyhigh
respects_robots_txtn/ahigh
robots_token_differs_from_uayesmedium
separate_search_and_training_tokensyeshigh
verifiable_by_rdnsn/an/a
what_it_controlsAI training use of content, not search indexinghigh

Observations

requests, last 30 days
0
verified share, last 30 days
no data yet
daily rows recorded
0

Changes

DateKindOld valueNew value
2026-09-13new[object Object]n/a
2026-09-13new[object Object]n/a
2026-09-13new[object Object]no
2026-09-13new[object Object]n/a
2026-09-13new[object Object]policy_only
2026-09-13new[object Object]yes
2026-09-13new[object Object]AI training use of content, not search indexing
2026-09-13new[object Object]yes

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