What is Applebot-Extended?

Block Applebot-Extended if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 16% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Applebot-Extended.

Yes. Applebot-Extended is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Applebot-Extended respects it.

Not through legitimate access. Applebot-Extended primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.

Your content matched the criteria Apple set for a training dataset. Applebot-Extended typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.

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 high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. Because Applebot-Extended does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.