What is Applebot?
Applebot is Apple's web crawler. It powers search features across Apple products, such as Siri and Spotlight. Whether Apple may use your pages to train its AI models is a separate robots.txt rule, Applebot-Extended, not a separate crawler.
- Operator
- Apple
- Class
- Crawls to index pages for search
- Verification
- Published networksDevTune checks that each request comes from Apple's own network, using the address ranges, DNS names or network routes Apple publishes. A request it can't match isn't counted as verified.
On your site
It requests pages to keep an index current, not to answer a question someone is asking right now. AI Traffic recognises and verifies its requests, and keeps them out of the training-crawl and answer-fetch counts.
AI Traffic setup
Connect a crawler sensor (Cloudflare pull, edge middleware or a Vercel log drain) to see which pages Applebot requests on your site.
Set up AI Traffic