Apple has added over 4,000 new IP addresses for Applebot, Apple's Siri and Apple Intelligence crawler, to crawl from. Specifically, there are now 18 of /24 CIDR ranges and 3 of /28, which totals 4,656 new IP addresses.
I spotted this via Ryan Siddle who posted this on LinkedIn, he wrote, "It looks like Apple might be entering the AI race with a new flavour of Applebot/Siri." "We've seen on several occasions OpenAI ramp up their IPs to warm the servers. The most recent was the Sol 5.6 release, but it wasn't at the scale Apple just did. Apple also hadn't updated their IPs for many years," he added.
Here is his screenshot:
Ryan said you may want to keep your eyes open for something big from Apple, he said:
For anyone interested in AI Search, make sure Applebot can access your platform. I think something big might be about to happen...
The last time Apple updated its Applebot documentation was in June to add information about AI, Siri, Apple Intelligence and more.
Forum discussion at LinkedIn.
