diff --git a/src/__tests__/app-redirect.test.ts b/src/__tests__/app-redirect.test.ts
index c2094c4..7ab6df8 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/app-redirect.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/app-redirect.test.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/redis", () => ({
 }));
 
 import { PLAY_STORE_URL } from "@/lib/app-links";
-import { detectPlatform, resolveAppRedirect } from "@/lib/app-redirect";
+import { detectPlatform, isLinkPreviewBot, resolveAppRedirect } from "@/lib/app-redirect";
 import { countAppRedirect, getAppRedirectStats } from "@/lib/app-redirect-stats";
 
 const ORIGIN = "https://pawfeed.org";
@@ -75,6 +75,31 @@ describe("resolveAppRedirect", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("isLinkPreviewBot", () => {
+  it("recognizes link-preview bots and crawlers", () => {
+    for (const ua of [
+      "facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)",
+      "meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)",
+      "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)",
+      "WhatsApp/2.23.20.0",
+      "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)",
+      "Slackbot-LinkExpanding 1.0 (+https://api.slack.com/robots)",
+      "curl/8.4.0",
+    ]) {
+      expect(isLinkPreviewBot(ua)).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("counts real phones, in-app browsers and desktops", () => {
+    const instagramInApp =
+      "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 Mobile/15E148 Instagram 350.0.0.0";
+    const cubot = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; CUBOT KingKong 9) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Mobile Safari/537.36";
+    for (const ua of [ANDROID, IPHONE, DESKTOP, instagramInApp, cubot, null]) {
+      expect(isLinkPreviewBot(ua)).toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
 describe("app redirect stats", () => {
   beforeEach(() => redisStore.clear());
 
diff --git a/src/__tests__/posts.test.ts b/src/__tests__/posts.test.ts
index 72027ef..9cd436b 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/posts.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/posts.test.ts
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ describe("posts.delete", () => {
     expect(mockPrisma.post.delete).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
       where: { id: "post-1" },
     });
+    // Reports have no FK to Post — they are removed in the same transaction instead of staying orphaned.
+    expect(mockPrisma.report.deleteMany).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ where: { targetPostId: "post-1" } });
+    expect(mockPrisma.$transaction).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/src/app/app/route.ts b/src/app/app/route.ts
index a3de95a..9996cb3 100644
--- a/src/app/app/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/app/route.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { NextResponse, type NextRequest } from "next/server";
-import { resolveAppRedirect } from "@/lib/app-redirect";
+import { isLinkPreviewBot, resolveAppRedirect } from "@/lib/app-redirect";
 import { countAppRedirect } from "@/lib/app-redirect-stats";
 
 /**
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ function resolveOrigin(request: NextRequest): string {
 }
 
 export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
-  const target = resolveAppRedirect(
-    request.headers.get("user-agent"),
-    request.nextUrl.searchParams,
-    resolveOrigin(request)
-  );
-  await countAppRedirect(target.source, target.platform);
+  const userAgent = request.headers.get("user-agent");
+  const target = resolveAppRedirect(userAgent, request.nextUrl.searchParams, resolveOrigin(request));
+  // Vorschau-Bots (Threads/Instagram/TikTok laden geteilte Links vor) nicht als Klick zählen.
+  if (!isLinkPreviewBot(userAgent)) {
+    await countAppRedirect(target.source, target.platform);
+  }
 
   const response = NextResponse.redirect(target.location, 302);
   response.headers.set("Cache-Control", "no-store");
diff --git a/src/lib/app-redirect.ts b/src/lib/app-redirect.ts
index e14ac97..ac9da00 100644
--- a/src/lib/app-redirect.ts
+++ b/src/lib/app-redirect.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ export function detectPlatform(userAgent: string | null | undefined): AppPlatfor
   return "other";
 }
 
+// Link-Vorschauen und Crawler (Meta lädt jeden geteilten Link in Threads/Instagram
+// vor, TikTok, WhatsApp, Slack …) — sie werden weitergeleitet, aber nicht gezählt.
+// Bewusst kein nacktes /bot/: Handy-Marken wie „CUBOT“ stehen im User-Agent.
+const BOT_PATTERN =
+  /facebookexternalhit|facebookcatalog|meta-external|bytespider|tiktok(?:spider|bot)|whatsapp|telegrambot|twitterbot|slackbot|discordbot|linkedinbot|pinterestbot|skypeuripreview|redditbot|embedly|iframely|googlebot|bingbot|applebot|duckduckbot|yandex|baiduspider|petalbot|semrush|ahrefs|headlesschrome|curl\/|wget\/|python-requests|\bbot\b|crawler|spider/;
+
+export function isLinkPreviewBot(userAgent: string | null | undefined): boolean {
+  return BOT_PATTERN.test((userAgent ?? "").toLowerCase());
+}
+
 export function sanitizeUtm(params: URLSearchParams): Partial<Record<UtmKey, string>> {
   const result: Partial<Record<UtmKey, string>> = {};
   for (const key of UTM_KEYS) {
diff --git a/src/trpc/routers/admin.ts b/src/trpc/routers/admin.ts
index c278968..1bb6e79 100644
--- a/src/trpc/routers/admin.ts
+++ b/src/trpc/routers/admin.ts
@@ -358,7 +358,10 @@ export const adminRouter = router({
       });
       if (!post) throw new TRPCError({ code: "NOT_FOUND" });
 
+      // Meldungen zum Beitrag mitlöschen — targetPostId ist kein Fremdschlüssel,
+      // sie stünden sonst mit leerem Beitrag in der Report-Liste.
       await ctx.prisma.$transaction([
+        ctx.prisma.report.deleteMany({ where: { targetPostId: input.postId } }),
         ctx.prisma.post.delete({ where: { id: input.postId } }),
         ...(post.repost
           ? [
diff --git a/src/trpc/routers/posts.ts b/src/trpc/routers/posts.ts
index 060bcd7..19b604f 100644
--- a/src/trpc/routers/posts.ts
+++ b/src/trpc/routers/posts.ts
@@ -225,8 +225,12 @@ export const postsRouter = router({
       // Ownership assertion (T-02-34)
       await assertPostOwnership(ctx.prisma, input.postId, ctx.userId);
 
-      // PostImages cascade via schema onDelete: Cascade
-      await ctx.prisma.post.delete({ where: { id: input.postId } });
+      // PostImages cascade via schema onDelete: Cascade. Meldungen nicht (targetPostId
+      // ist kein Fremdschlüssel) — mitlöschen, sonst bleiben sie verwaist in der Report-Liste.
+      await ctx.prisma.$transaction([
+        ctx.prisma.report.deleteMany({ where: { targetPostId: input.postId } }),
+        ctx.prisma.post.delete({ where: { id: input.postId } }),
+      ]);
 
       return { deleted: true };
     }),
diff --git a/src/trpc/routers/reposts.ts b/src/trpc/routers/reposts.ts
index a807e35..2d1cf77 100644
--- a/src/trpc/routers/reposts.ts
+++ b/src/trpc/routers/reposts.ts
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ export const repostsRouter = router({
       }
 
       // Deleting the Post cascades to the Repost record via onDelete: Cascade
+      // Meldungen zum Pfote-zurück-Beitrag mitlöschen (targetPostId ist kein Fremdschlüssel).
       await ctx.prisma.$transaction([
+        ctx.prisma.report.deleteMany({ where: { targetPostId: repost.postId } }),
         ctx.prisma.post.delete({ where: { id: repost.postId } }),
         ctx.prisma.post.update({
           where: { id: repost.originalPostId },