What is Applebot-Extended?
Apple-Extended is used to train Apple’s foundation LLM models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Apple |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 10, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Applebot-Extended crawls websites to build AI training datasets, and its operator decides which sites, how often, and how deep it goes. Expect broad sweeps that fetch far more pages per visit than a search crawler would, on an unpredictable schedule. Volume can run heavy while a collection pass is underway, then stop entirely.
Applebot-Extended's User Agent
| User Agent | Applebot-Extended/1.0 |
How To Block Applebot-Extended With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Applebot-Extended from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Applebot-Extended # https://knownagents.com/agents/applebot-extended
Disallow: /Applebot-Extended Global Insights
As of July 10, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
14% of top websites block Applebot-Extended in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Data Scraper Traffic
2.7% of all web traffic came from AI data scrapers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Applebot-Extended?
Block it if you want control over how your work trains AI models. Applebot-Extended downloads your content into training datasets without attribution, compensation, or any promise of traffic back. The case for allowing it is reach, because models trained on your content can surface your brand in AI answers. Neither choice changes your Google rankings. For comparison, 14% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Applebot-Extended.
Does Applebot-Extended Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Applebot-Extended is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Applebot-Extended actually honors it.
Does Applebot-Extended Access Private Content?
Applebot-Extended targets public content, but the boundary is not always respected. Some training data scrapers go after paywalled or gated pages when the operator wants that data. If a page loads without signing in, assume it can be collected.
Why Is Applebot-Extended Visiting My Website?
Your content matched what Apple wants in a training dataset. Applebot-Extended discovers pages mechanically, through links from other sites, sitemaps, and seed lists, not because anyone chose your site personally.
How Can I Tell if Applebot-Extended Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Applebot-Extended visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Applebot-Extended". Look for broad sweeps that fetch large numbers of pages in sequence. Keep in mind that Applebot-Extended doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.