Question
What is Applebot-Extended?
Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt token that controls whether content already crawled by Applebot is used to train Apple's generative models (Apple Intelligence). Blocking it does not remove you from Siri or Spotlight, which Applebot still serves.
Key facts
- It is a policy token, not a separate crawler — Applebot does the crawling.
- Blocking it opts you out of generative training only.
- Siri suggestions and Spotlight/Safari search are unaffected.
Opt out of training, keep search
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /Verify
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