Search Engines

Applebot Checker

Applebot · Apple · Last reviewed: 2026-10-01

Overview

Purpose

Supports Apple search products.

Exact user-agent token

Applebot

robots.txt

Allow example

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

Block example

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

Important limitation

A robots.txt verdict describes the published rule for the tested path. It does not prove crawling, indexing, training, citations or traffic.

Frequently asked question

Does this rule control every product from the same operator?

No. Operators can publish separate user-agent tokens for training, search and user-triggered retrieval. Configure each documented token intentionally.

Official source

Apple documentation ↗