Applebot-Extended
Apple · Opt-out signal
Applebot-Extended never visits your site: Apple only uses it to decide what to do with the data Applebot has already crawled. Disallowing it keeps your content out of the training of Apple's foundation models, and your pages stay in search results.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- Apple
- What it is for
- It tells the operator what it may do with what its other bots have already crawled: train models and, for Google, use it in Gemini's answers.
- Assistant it feeds
- Not a crawler: a name in robots.txt that limits how AI uses your content.
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- No. Opt-out signals do not count towards the score.
- Official documentation
- support.apple.com/en-us/119829
If you block it
You limit what AI does with your content without leaving search. Your score does not change.
Allow or block
Applebot-Extended is not a crawler: only Disallow has any effect, and blocking it does not take you out of search.
Block
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether Applebot-Extended can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.