Not a crawler — a control token that decides how Apple may use content already crawled by Applebot. Opts you out of Apple foundation-model training.
Your call — a data-use token, not a crawler
Applebot-Extended does not crawl webpages. Apple describes it as a token that determines how content already crawled by Applebot may be used — disallowing it opts you out of training Apple's foundation models.
Apple states that pages disallowing Applebot-Extended can still appear in search results, and that rules for it are not considered in Search ranking.
If you want to limit Apple's AI answers (not training), the documented lever is the nosnippet meta tag, which applies to content Applebot crawled.
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /
This entry has no HTTP user-agent of its own, so a user-agent fetch test cannot verify it — only your robots.txt directive applies.
Official source Operator documentation — last verified against operator docs 2026-09-12
https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829
"Should you block it?" below is our own interpretation, not the operator's recommendation.
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