diff --git a/.changeset/narrow-pinterest-bot.md b/.changeset/narrow-pinterest-bot.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6714c68b0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/narrow-pinterest-bot.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+'@posthog/core': patch
+'@posthog/browser-common': patch
+'posthog-js': patch
+'posthog-node': patch
+---
+
+Narrow the `pinterest` entry in the bot-detection blocklist to `pinterestbot`, so real users on Pinterest's in-app browser (whose UA also contains the substring `pinterest`) are no longer misclassified as bots and silently excluded from analytics. The crawler's other UA variant remains covered by the existing generic `bot.htm` entry, so no bot-detection coverage is lost.
diff --git a/packages/browser/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts b/packages/browser/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts
index 202ef9b016..03b9867c6e 100644
--- a/packages/browser/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts
+++ b/packages/browser/src/__tests__/utils.test.ts
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ describe('utils', () => {
                 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeznamBot/4.0; +https://o-seznam.cz/napoveda/vyhledavani/en/seznambot-crawler/)',
             ],
             ['BrightEdge Crawler/1.0 (crawler@brightedge.com)'],
+            ['Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0; +http://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)'],
         ])('blocks based on user agent', (botString) => {
             expect(isBlockedUA(botString, [])).toBe(true)
             expect(isBlockedUA(botString.toLowerCase(), [])).toBe(true)
@@ -194,6 +195,10 @@ describe('utils', () => {
             [
                 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) elec/1.0.0 Chrome/126.0.6478.127 Electron/31.2.1 Safari/537.36',
             ],
+            [
+                // Pinterest app's own in-app browser -- a real user, not the Pinterestbot crawler
+                'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 11_2_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15D100 [Pinterest/iOS]',
+            ],
         ])('does not block based on non-bot user agent', (userAgent) => {
             expect(isBlockedUA(userAgent, [])).toBe(false)
             expect(isBlockedUA(userAgent.toLowerCase(), [])).toBe(false)
diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/bot-detection.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/bot-detection.ts
index 3e7850369f..f30f7cd196 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/bot-detection.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/bot-detection.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ export const DEFAULT_BLOCKED_UA_STRS = [
   'msnbot',
   'nessus',
   'petalbot',
-  'pinterest',
+  // not the bare 'pinterest' -- that also matches the Pinterest app's own in-app
+  // browser UA (e.g. "...Mobile/15D100 [Pinterest/iOS]"), which is a real user,
+  // not the crawler. The crawler's other UA variant ("...pinterest.com/bot.html")
+  // is still covered by the generic 'bot.htm' entry below.
+  'pinterestbot',
   'prerender',
   'rogerbot',
   'screaming frog',