diff --git a/internal/api/model/status.go b/internal/api/model/status.go
index 286a90dfe..d5fec77a7 100644
--- a/internal/api/model/status.go
+++ b/internal/api/model/status.go
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ type Status struct {
 	// so the user may redraft from the source text without the client having to reverse-engineer
 	// the original text from the HTML content.
 	Text string `json:"text,omitempty"`
+	// Content type that was used to parse the status's text. Returned when
+	// status is deleted, so if the user is redrafting the message the client
+	// can default to the same content type.
+	ContentType StatusContentType `json:"content_type,omitempty"`
 	// A list of filters that matched this status and why they matched, if there are any such filters.
 	Filtered []FilterResult `json:"filtered,omitempty"`
 	// The interaction policy for this status, as set by the status author.
diff --git a/internal/typeutils/internaltofrontend.go b/internal/typeutils/internaltofrontend.go
index 465f4acf5..1e8e410e1 100644
--- a/internal/typeutils/internaltofrontend.go
+++ b/internal/typeutils/internaltofrontend.go
@@ -1391,6 +1391,7 @@ func (c *Converter) baseStatusToFrontend(
 		Emojis:             apiEmojis,
 		Card:               nil, // TODO: implement cards
 		Text:               s.Text,
+		ContentType:        c.ContentTypeToAPIContentType(ctx, s.ContentType),
 		InteractionPolicy:  *apiInteractionPolicy,
 	}