diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2ddfaf389..312a97d2b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ over unchanged punctuation.
 
 Added support for QML.
 
+ZIP files are now always treated as binary files.
+
 ## 0.35 (released 2nd September 2022)
 
 ### Diffing
diff --git a/src/files.rs b/src/files.rs
index f760c0e55..2f10e595b 100644
--- a/src/files.rs
+++ b/src/files.rs
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ pub fn guess_content(bytes: &[u8]) -> ProbableFileKind {
     match mime {
         // Treat pdf as binary.
         "application/pdf" => return ProbableFileKind::Binary,
+        // application/* is a mix of stuff, application/json is fine
+        // but application/zip is binary that often looks text-ish to
+        // our heuristics.
+        "application/zip" => return ProbableFileKind::Binary,
         // Treat all image content as binary.
         v if v.starts_with("image/") => return ProbableFileKind::Binary,
         // Treat all audio content as binary.