diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp
index 0dc47d5db93d..e277ad3419f7 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ UnnecessaryValueParamCheck::UnnecessaryValueParamCheck(
           Options.getLocalOrGlobal("IncludeStyle", "llvm"))) {}
 
 void UnnecessaryValueParamCheck::registerMatchers(MatchFinder *Finder) {
+  // This check is specific to C++ and doesn't apply to languages like
+  // Objective-C.
+  if (!getLangOpts().CPlusPlus)
+    return;
   const auto ExpensiveValueParamDecl =
       parmVarDecl(hasType(hasCanonicalType(allOf(
                       unless(referenceType()), matchers::isExpensiveToCopy()))),
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/utils/TypeTraits.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/utils/TypeTraits.cpp
index 6dd4141ba70c..2cdc506476b1 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/utils/TypeTraits.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/utils/TypeTraits.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ llvm::Optional<bool> isExpensiveToCopy(QualType Type,
     return llvm::None;
   return !Type.isTriviallyCopyableType(Context) &&
          !classHasTrivialCopyAndDestroy(Type) &&
-         !hasDeletedCopyConstructor(Type);
+         !hasDeletedCopyConstructor(Type) &&
+         !Type->isObjCLifetimeType();
 }
 
 bool recordIsTriviallyDefaultConstructible(const RecordDecl &RecordDecl,
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/performance-unnecessary-value-param-arc.m b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/performance-unnecessary-value-param-arc.m
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0a9ea0639ecd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/performance-unnecessary-value-param-arc.m
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// RUN: clang-tidy %s -checks=-*,performance-unnecessary-value-param -- \
+// RUN:   -xobjective-c -fobjc-abi-version=2 -fobjc-arc | count 0
+
+#if !__has_feature(objc_arc)
+#error Objective-C ARC not enabled as expected
+#endif
+
+// Passing an Objective-C ARC-managed object to a C function should
+// not raise performance-unnecessary-value-param.
+void foo(id object) { }
+
+// Same for explcitly non-ARC-managed Objective-C objects.
+void bar(__unsafe_unretained id object) { }
+
+// Same for Objective-c classes.
+void baz(Class c) { }
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/performance-unnecessary-value-param-arc.mm b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/performance-unnecessary-value-param-arc.mm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4ed05069a4b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/performance-unnecessary-value-param-arc.mm
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// RUN: clang-tidy %s -checks=-*,performance-unnecessary-value-param -- \
+// RUN:   -xobjective-c++ -fobjc-abi-version=2 -fobjc-arc | count 0
+
+#if !__has_feature(objc_arc)
+#error Objective-C ARC not enabled as expected
+#endif
+
+// Passing an Objective-C ARC-managed object to a C function should
+// not raise performance-unnecessary-value-param.
+void foo(id object) { }
+
+// Same for explcitly non-ARC-managed Objective-C objects.
+void bar(__unsafe_unretained id object) { }
+
+// Same for Objective-c classes.
+void baz(Class c) { }