diff --git a/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp b/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp
index 66838a2ec43..39ae476ff24 100644
--- a/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/text/qstring.cpp
@@ -3131,7 +3131,10 @@ QString &QString::append(const QString &str)
 {
     if (!str.isNull()) {
         if (isNull()) {
-            operator=(str);
+            if (Q_UNLIKELY(!str.d.isMutable()))
+                assign(str); // fromRawData, so we do a deep copy
+            else
+                operator=(str);
         } else if (str.size()) {
             append(str.constData(), str.size());
         }
diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/text/qbytearray/tst_qbytearray.cpp b/tests/auto/corelib/text/qbytearray/tst_qbytearray.cpp
index 084fb5c0e53..4c97640f69d 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/text/qbytearray/tst_qbytearray.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/text/qbytearray/tst_qbytearray.cpp
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ private slots:
     void prependExtended_data();
     void prependExtended();
     void append();
+    void appendFromRawData();
     void appendExtended_data();
     void appendExtended();
     void assign();
@@ -911,6 +912,20 @@ void tst_QByteArray::append()
     }
 }
 
+void tst_QByteArray::appendFromRawData()
+{
+    char rawData[] = "Hello World!";
+    QByteArray ba = QByteArray::fromRawData(rawData, std::size(rawData) - 1);
+
+    QByteArray copy;
+    copy.append(ba);
+    QCOMPARE(copy, ba);
+    // We make an _actual_ copy, because appending a byte array
+    // created with fromRawData() might be optimized to copy the DataPointer,
+    // which means we may point to temporary stack data.
+    QCOMPARE_NE((void *)copy.constData(), (void *)ba.constData());
+}
+
 void tst_QByteArray::appendExtended_data()
 {
     prependExtended_data();
diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/text/qstring/tst_qstring.cpp b/tests/auto/corelib/text/qstring/tst_qstring.cpp
index e6e3d6eefdd..be59090b754 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/text/qstring/tst_qstring.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/text/qstring/tst_qstring.cpp
@@ -469,6 +469,8 @@ private slots:
     void append_bytearray_special_cases();
 #endif
 
+    void appendFromRawData();
+
     void operator_pluseq_qstring()            { operator_pluseq_impl<QString>(); }
     void operator_pluseq_qstring_data()       { operator_pluseq_data(); }
     void operator_pluseq_qstringview()        { operator_pluseq_impl<QStringView, QString &(QString::*)(QStringView)>(); }
@@ -3394,6 +3396,21 @@ void tst_QString::append_bytearray_special_cases()
 }
 #endif // !defined(QT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII) && !defined(QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII)
 
+void tst_QString::appendFromRawData()
+{
+    const char16_t utf[] = u"Hello World!";
+    auto *rawData = reinterpret_cast<const QChar *>(utf);
+    QString str = QString::fromRawData(rawData, std::size(utf) - 1);
+
+    QString copy;
+    copy.append(str);
+    QCOMPARE(copy, str);
+    // We make an _actual_ copy, because appending a byte array
+    // created with fromRawData() might be optimized to copy the DataPointer,
+    // which means we may point to temporary stack data.
+    QCOMPARE_NE((void *)copy.constData(), (void *)str.constData());
+}
+
 void tst_QString::assign()
 {
     // QString &assign(QAnyStringView)