Applebot

Apple · AI search indexer

Apple's crawler. Apple publishes its IP ranges for verification.

User-agent contains

Applebot

robots.txt token

Applebot

Respects robots.txt

Operator docs don't say / may not apply

Official IP ranges

24 prefixes

How to verify Applebot

Matching the user agent isn't enough, because any client can send it. A real Applebot request comes from an IP address inside Apple's published list:

• https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
  24 prefixes · list dated 2026-09-15 · fetched 2026-10-21

The quickest way to check a whole log is our free log checker. It runs in your browser and splits Applebot requests into real and fake.

17.241.208.160/27
17.241.193.160/27
17.241.200.160/27
17.166.192.48/28
17.166.240.48/28
17.166.248.48/28
17.166.20.0/24
17.166.21.0/24
17.166.22.0/24
17.166.23.0/24
17.166.24.0/24
17.166.25.0/24
17.166.232.0/24
17.166.233.0/24
17.166.234.0/24
17.166.235.0/24
17.166.236.0/24
17.166.237.0/24
17.166.150.0/24
17.166.151.0/24

Block or allow Applebot in robots.txt

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

Use Allow: / instead to explicitly permit it, or build a full file with the AI robots.txt generator. robots.txt is a request, not a lock: it only works for bots that honor it, and only real Applebot traffic would.