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token.safebrowsing.apple

token.safebrowsing.apple is the host that Apple lists for “Safari fraudulent website warnings”, on port 443, for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS.

Run by ApplePorts: 443 TCPChecked: 1 November 2026

Short answer

The Apple host for Safari's fraudulent website warnings.

Don’t block

Don't block it. Safari may stop warning you about fraudulent websites.

Matches
token.safebrowsing.apple

A name with *. covers every name under it: *.push.apple.com matches 1-courier.push.apple.com.

What it serves

Apple's enterprise host list names token.safebrowsing.apple in its Apps and additional content section.

macOS includes a Safe Browsing service, com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing.Service, in the SafariSafeBrowsing framework. Apple doesn't document it.

.apple is a top-level domain, like .com. The name is Apple's.

Processes that use it

com.apple.WebKit.NetworkingPart of macOS. It is WebKit's network process, which does all network access for Safari and for apps that show web pages, so their browsing shows under it.Process →

What breaks if you block it

Don’t block

Don't block it. Safari may stop warning you about fraudulent websites.

What breaks if you block it

  • Safari's fraudulent website warnings may stop working, so phishing sites aren't flagged.

With Kilobat Pro and the network filter, you can block a host for every app or for one app: in Connections, select a connection and choose Block. Apple’s own services are never blocked by Kilobat’s Protection lists.

Notes

To turn the warnings off on purpose, Safari has a setting for it. Blocking the host is a less clear way to do the same.

Apple’s rules for its hosts

Apple’s list, Use Apple products on enterprise networks, says that devices open these connections, not Apple’s servers. Apple services fail any connection that uses HTTPS interception, so a proxy that inspects TLS should leave Apple’s hosts alone.

If a firewall allows hosts by name, allowing *.apple.com covers most Apple services, Apple says. A firewall that works only with addresses can allow 17.0.0.0/8 for IPv4, and 2403:300::/32, 2620:149::/32 and 2a01:b740::/32 for IPv6.

To see which app on your Mac opened a connection to this host, use Kilobat’s Connections tab, or the agent network log for AI agents.

Sources

Checked on 1 November 2026.