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Applebot-Extended

AppleHonours robots.txt

Robots.txt token controlling whether Apple uses your content to train Apple Intelligence models. Opts you out of Apple Intelligence training while keeping Siri and Spotlight indexing intact.

User-agent string

(control token only)

How to verify it

Not applicable — directive only.

What blocking costs

Opts you out of Apple Intelligence training while keeping Siri and Spotlight indexing intact.

robots.txt rule

# Block Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

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

Robots.txt is enough

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

Generate a full robots.txt

Pick which AI crawlers to allow or block across all 42 agents and copy the file out.

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