icloud.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, icloud.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.icloud.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 7c0da5b622a8703a… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 f3e97a615bc40600…

User-agent: *
Disallow: /calendar/eventreply/
Disallow: /system/
Disallow: /applications/
Disallow: /unsupported_browser
Disallow: /unsupported_mobile
Disallow: /ipad_welcome
Disallow: /iphone_welcome
Disallow: /enable_cookies
Disallow: /mobileme/not_found/
Disallow: /topsites_preview
Disallow: /attachment
Disallow: /download
Disallow: /ajax_sender.html
Disallow: /iw
Disallow: /status
Disallow: /bookmarks_extension
Disallow: /maintenance
Disallow: /not_found
Disallow: /unavailable
Disallow: /family_sharing
Disallow: /fmf_getting_started
Disallow: /fmf_location_update
Disallow: /fmf_location_update_unsubscribe_undo
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe_error
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe_success
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe_undo
Disallow: /fmf_unsupported_device
Disallow: /photos_get_started
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsubscribe
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsubscribe_error
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsubscribe_undo
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsupported_device
Disallow: /photostream_unsubscribe

Disallow: /iclouddrive/
Disallow: /notes/
Disallow: /photos/
Disallow: /reminders/
Disallow: /share/

Sitemap: https://www.icloud.com/sitemap.xml

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

Evidence

Every daily observation of icloud.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/icloud.com