That’s 4.079% of the 48,534,257 live websites we index — the #8 most-blocked AI crawler.
Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools.
Add this to your site’s /robots.txt:
User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /