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AI Search & Emerging
Applebot-Extended
Apple's robots.txt control token that lets publishers stop Applebot-crawled content being used to train Apple Intelligence models while staying in Siri and Spotlight search.
By Brandon Mina·CEO, BrandPilot AI·Updated November 2026
Short answer
Applebot-Extended is Apple's robots.txt control token that lets publishers stop content crawled by Applebot from being used to train Apple Intelligence models. It is not a separate crawler. Sites that disallow it can still appear in Siri and Spotlight search results, separating search visibility from use in model training.