I think Applebot is nothing new (apart from the name). It's been years now since I found in my logs traces of crawlers from Apple IPs with an iOS 8 Safari-like

I think Applebot is nothing new (apart from the name). It's been years now since I found in my logs traces of crawlers from Apple IPs with an iOS 8 Safari-like user-agent. Maybe, well, since iOS 8 at least. Edit: see here @jd20 thread for insights and confirming this.