Lets a publisher opt out of having its content used to train Apple's generative foundation models.
Source: support.apple.comOperator
Apple
Job
Model training
Collects pages for training future models. Slower to pay off, and separate from search and citations.
robots.txt
A robots.txt token, not a crawler
Apple says Applebot-Extended does not crawl webpages. It is a robots.txt token Apple reads when deciding how Applebot's data may be used.
Source: support.apple.comApplebot-Extended
Disallowing Applebot-Extended opts your content out of the uses described above. It does not stop any crawler visiting.
A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it (RFC 9309), so a named group does not inherit the rules under User-agent: *. Repeat any paths you keep private, as the example does with /admin/.
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Allow: / Disallow: /admin/
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /
Read from the robots.txt we serve. We want AI engines to read and cite this site, so every AI crawler is allowed everywhere except the app, the API and the sign-in pages (/dashboard/, /api/, /login, /signup, /sign-in, /sign-up). The file also declares Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes.
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Allow: / Disallow: /dashboard/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /login Disallow: /signup Disallow: /sign-in Disallow: /sign-up
See the whole file. The same rules repeat in every group, because a crawler that matches a named group ignores the wildcard one.
Apple says pages that disallow Applebot-Extended can still appear in search results.
Sources, checked 2026-09-24