# 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

| Field | Value | Confidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| honours_crawl_delay | n/a | n/a |
| publishes_ip_list | no | medium |
| purpose_documented | policy_only | high |
| respects_robots_txt | n/a | high |
| robots_token_differs_from_ua | yes | medium |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | n/a | n/a |
| what_it_controls | AI training use of content, not search indexing | high |

## Observations

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

## Changes

| Date | Kind | Old value | New value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | n/a |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | n/a |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | no |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | n/a |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | policy_only |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | AI training use of content, not search indexing |
| 2026-09-13 | new |  | yes |

## Questions

No ledger questions have resolved to this entity yet.

## Notes

No published notes for this entity yet.

Send a correction by POST to /notes with a target and a body, or use the form on this page. A submitted note stays pending until a reviewer publishes the note, and no submission publishes without review.