# Applebot-Extended

## In short

Applebot-Extended is an AI crawler operated by Apple. Its robots.txt token is Applebot-Extended, and the vendor documentation we fetched on 2026-09-06 is the source for every statement on this page.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Robots token | Applebot-Extended |
| Vendor | Apple |
| Purpose | training corpus |
| Documented verification | reverse DNS |
| Vendor documentation last verified | 2026-09-06 |
| Share of read domains disallowing it for / | 16.4% of 128 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-06 |

## Does Applebot-Extended obey robots.txt?

The vendor documentation at https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 states that Applebot-Extended respects robots.txt. We fetched that page and it answered our checker on 2026-09-06. This records what the vendor documents, not what any individual request did.

## How do I allow Applebot-Extended in robots.txt?

Add this group to the robots.txt at the root of the host: User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /. The token is matched case insensitively as a substring of the user agent by RFC 9309, and the longest matching rule wins.

## How do I disallow Applebot-Extended in robots.txt?

Add this group to the robots.txt at the root of the host: User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /. A robots.txt rule is a request that a well behaved crawler honours; it is not an access control.

## How do I verify a request really came from Applebot-Extended?

The vendor documents reverse DNS verification: look up the address of the request, check the name ends in .applebot.apple.com, then look that name up again and confirm it resolves back to the same address.

## Source

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 (HTTP 200, Verified 2026-09-06)
- https://darkvisitors.com/agents/applebot-extended (HTTP 200, Verified 2026-09-06)

AEO Watch is an independent, factual monitor. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or speaking for any crawler vendor. Every statement is an observation with the date it was made and the raw evidence behind it: a robots.txt line, an HTTP status code, a header. There are no scores, no grades and no verdicts here, and nothing on this page is advice. A site opts out at any time and the opt out is honoured automatically and permanently.