Applebot-Extended
Applebot-Extended is a robots.txt control that lets you opt out of having your content used to train Apple's AI models, without affecting Siri or Spotlight indexing by the regular Applebot.
Applebot-Extended is Apple's AI-training opt-out token. Like Google-Extended, it isn't a crawler — it's a control you place in robots.txt to tell Apple not to use your content to train its AI models. The regular Applebot, which powers Siri and Spotlight suggestions, keeps indexing you normally.
This keeps the access decision clean: opting out of training use does not reduce your discoverability in Apple's search-driven features. As with the other "-Extended" tokens, it's a content-rights choice rather than an AEO visibility lever — it changes whether your material shapes the model, not whether a given answer surfaces you.
Example. A site adds User-agent: Applebot-Extended / Disallow: / to keep its
content out of Apple's AI training while leaving Applebot allowed, so Siri and
Spotlight still surface its pages.
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- Google-ExtendedGoogle-Extended is a robots.txt control that lets you opt out of having your content used to train Google's Gemini and Vertex AI models, without affecting Google Search or AI Overviews.
- robots.txtrobots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain that tells crawlers which user-agents may access which parts of your site, and is how you allow or block AI crawlers.
- Training DataTraining data is the body of text and other content an AI model learns from during training, shaping what it knows by default before any live retrieval is involved.