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Siri / Spotlight / Safari suggestions

Apple's first-party crawler. Powers Siri suggestions, Spotlight results, Safari address-bar suggestions, and the grounding sources for Apple Intelligence's web-aware features.

Specs

VendorApple
CategorySEARCH
robots.txt tokenApplebot
Renders JavaScriptRENDERS JS
Honors robots.txtyes
Reverse-DNS pattern*.applebot.apple.com
IP-range sourcehttps://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json

User-Agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

Considerations

  • Renders JavaScript via WebKit (the Safari engine).
  • Has existed since 2014 for Siri — older than the AI wave. Sites blocking 'AI bots' wholesale inadvertently lose Siri visibility too.
  • Use the separate Applebot-Extended directive to opt out of Apple Intelligence training while keeping Siri / Spotlight visibility.

robots.txt recipe

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
Related bots: Applebot-Extended · Googlebot · Bingbot

Sources: Apple · About Applebot · Apple Developer · Applebot IP ranges

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