diff --git a/utils/utils.go b/utils/utils.go
index 928abd81b..8e1dcd15a 100644
--- a/utils/utils.go
+++ b/utils/utils.go
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ func IsUserAgentABot(userAgent string) bool {
 	botStrings := []string{
 		"mastodon",
 		"pleroma",
+		"applebot",
 	}
 
 	for _, botString := range botStrings {
diff --git a/utils/utils_test.go b/utils/utils_test.go
index bb25c5ba7..dfa204848 100644
--- a/utils/utils_test.go
+++ b/utils/utils_test.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ func TestUserAgent(t *testing.T) {
 	testAgents := []string{
 		"Pleroma 1.0.0-1168-ge18c7866-pleroma-dot-site; https://pleroma.site info@pleroma.site",
 		"Mastodon 1.2.3 Bot",
+		"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)",
 	}
 
 	for _, agent := range testAgents {