AASA-Bot
Neutral
The Apple App Site Association is used to support "Universal Links" that can open in native iOS apps. The bot requests a specific path for a given hostname, which returns metadata that.
Operator and family: Apple
Type: Preview
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
iTMS
Neutral
Fetches URLs associated with registered Apple Podcasts content.
Operator and family: Apple
Type: Feed
Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Applebot
Safe
Applebot data is used to power various features, such as the search technology that is integrated into many user experiences in Appleʼs ecosystem including Spotlight, Siri, and Safari.
Operator and family: Apple
Type: Search
Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Applebot-Extended
Safe
Applebot-Extended is an AI control token from Apple used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.
Operator and family: Apple
Type: Ai
Purpose: Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented