Apple · policy directive
Is Applebot-Extended blocked on your site?
Applebot-Extended is Apple’s policy directive token for Apple Intelligence, and whether it reaches you is decided by one line in your robots.txt. Like Google-Extended, this is a directive rather than a crawler: it opts you out of Apple Intelligence training while leaving plain Applebot — which powers Siri and Spotlight results — untouched.
- Secondary crawler weight
- Applebot-Extended robots.txt token
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Phase 2 adds the parts that rank: the exact allow and block snippets for Applebot-Extended, what Apple publishes about it, the CDN and plugin defaults that block it without telling you, and how it differs from the vendor’s other tokens.
This page is noindex until that lands, and it is not in the sitemap.