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title: "What is Applebot-Extended? Apple's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training."
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[Home](/) [Bot Directory](/bot-directory) Applebot-Extended

# Applebot-Extended

by Apple

AI training AI UA only (unverifiable)

Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.

Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training.

## What it usually means

Nothing on its own — Applebot-Extended never fetches. It is a robots.txt token that opts pages out of Apple Intelligence training.

## How to identify it

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Applebot-Extended`

Free tools

[Check if your site allows Applebot-Extended](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

[Apple's page for Applebot-Extended](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829)

## Sources

-   [Apple crawler docs](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829)

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