Powers Siri, Spotlight and Safari suggestions. It is operated by Apple.

Does Applebot respect robots.txt?

Yes. Apple states that Applebot honours robots.txt directives, so a Disallow rule for the Applebot token is sufficient.

Applebot

AppleHonours robots.txt

Powers Siri, Spotlight and Safari suggestions. Blocking removes you from Siri and Spotlight suggestions.

User-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

How to verify it

Reverse DNS to applebot.apple.com.

What blocking costs

Blocking removes you from Siri and Spotlight suggestions.

robots.txt rule

# Block Applebot
User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

# Allow everything else
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Robots.txt is enough

Apple documents Applebot as honouring robots.txt. Verify with your logs after deploying — a spoofed agent will keep coming.

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Other Apple agents

Applebot-Extended