diff --git a/spec/rest.spec.js b/spec/rest.spec.js
index 1fff4fad59..6c7b284f35 100644
--- a/spec/rest.spec.js
+++ b/spec/rest.spec.js
@@ -803,6 +803,130 @@ describe('rest create', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it('supports ignoreIncludeErrors for unreadable pointers', async () => {
+    const schemaController = await config.database.loadSchema();
+    await schemaController.addClassIfNotExists(
+      'IncludeChild',
+      { owner: { type: 'Pointer', targetClass: '_User' } },
+      {
+        get: { pointerFields: ['owner'] },
+        find: { pointerFields: ['owner'] },
+      }
+    );
+    await config.schemaCache.clear();
+
+    const owner = await Parse.User.signUp('includeOwner', 'password');
+    const child = new Parse.Object('IncludeChild');
+    child.set('owner', owner);
+    child.set('label', 'unreadable');
+    await child.save(null, { useMasterKey: true });
+
+    const parent = new Parse.Object('IncludeParent');
+    parent.set('child', child);
+    const parentACL = new Parse.ACL();
+    parentACL.setPublicReadAccess(true);
+    parentACL.setPublicWriteAccess(false);
+    parent.setACL(parentACL);
+    await parent.save(null, { useMasterKey: true });
+
+    await Parse.User.logOut();
+
+    const headers = {
+      'X-Parse-Application-Id': Parse.applicationId,
+      'X-Parse-REST-API-Key': 'rest',
+      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+    };
+    const baseUrl = `${Parse.serverURL}/classes/IncludeParent/${parent.id}?include=child`;
+
+    await expectAsync(
+      request({
+        method: 'GET',
+        url: baseUrl,
+        headers,
+      })
+    ).toBeRejectedWith(
+      jasmine.objectContaining({
+        status: 404,
+        data: jasmine.objectContaining({ code: Parse.Error.OBJECT_NOT_FOUND }),
+      })
+    );
+
+    // when we try to include and unreadable child & ignore include errors
+    // then the raw pointer is simply returned unhydrated.
+    const response = await request({
+      method: 'GET',
+      url: `${baseUrl}&ignoreIncludeErrors=true`,
+      headers,
+    });
+
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(response.data.child).toEqual(
+      jasmine.objectContaining({
+        __type: 'Pointer',
+        className: 'IncludeChild',
+        objectId: child.id,
+      })
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('preserves unresolved pointers in arrays when ignoreIncludeErrors is true', async () => {
+    const childOne = await new Parse.Object('IgnoreIncludeChild').save({ name: 'first' });
+    const childTwo = await new Parse.Object('IgnoreIncludeChild').save({ name: 'second' });
+
+    const parent = new Parse.Object('IgnoreIncludeParent');
+    parent.set('primary', childOne);
+    parent.set('others', [childOne, childTwo]);
+    await parent.save();
+
+    await childOne.destroy({ useMasterKey: true });
+
+    const headers = {
+      'X-Parse-Application-Id': Parse.applicationId,
+      'X-Parse-REST-API-Key': 'rest',
+      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+    };
+    const baseUrl = `${Parse.serverURL}/classes/IgnoreIncludeParent/${parent.id}?include=primary,others`;
+
+    const defaultResponse = await request({
+      method: 'GET',
+      url: baseUrl,
+      headers,
+    });
+    expect(defaultResponse.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(Array.isArray(defaultResponse.data.others)).toBeTrue();
+    expect(defaultResponse.data.others.length).toBe(1);
+
+    const response = await request({
+      method: 'GET',
+      url: `${baseUrl}&ignoreIncludeErrors=true`,
+      headers,
+    });
+
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(response.data.primary).toEqual(
+      jasmine.objectContaining({
+        __type: 'Pointer',
+        className: 'IgnoreIncludeChild',
+        objectId: childOne.id,
+      })
+    );
+    expect(response.data.others.length).toBe(2);
+    expect(response.data.others[0]).toEqual(
+      jasmine.objectContaining({
+        __type: 'Pointer',
+        className: 'IgnoreIncludeChild',
+        objectId: childOne.id,
+      })
+    );
+    expect(response.data.others[1]).toEqual(
+      jasmine.objectContaining({
+        __type: 'Object',
+        className: 'IgnoreIncludeChild',
+        objectId: childTwo.id,
+      })
+    );
+  });
+
   it('locks down session', done => {
     let currentUser;
     Parse.User.signUp('foo', 'bar')
diff --git a/src/Adapters/Storage/StorageAdapter.js b/src/Adapters/Storage/StorageAdapter.js
index d25c9753c0..bf006a05fa 100644
--- a/src/Adapters/Storage/StorageAdapter.js
+++ b/src/Adapters/Storage/StorageAdapter.js
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export type QueryOptions = {
   action?: string,
   addsField?: boolean,
   comment?: string,
+  ignoreIncludeErrors?: boolean,
 };
 
 export type UpdateQueryOptions = {
diff --git a/src/Controllers/DatabaseController.js b/src/Controllers/DatabaseController.js
index 15207a7295..77e5909ecb 100644
--- a/src/Controllers/DatabaseController.js
+++ b/src/Controllers/DatabaseController.js
@@ -1189,6 +1189,7 @@ class DatabaseController {
       caseInsensitive = false,
       explain,
       comment,
+      ignoreIncludeErrors,
     }: any = {},
     auth: any = {},
     validSchemaController: SchemaController.SchemaController
@@ -1285,6 +1286,13 @@ class DatabaseController {
               }
               if (!query) {
                 if (op === 'get') {
+                  // If there's no query returned; then it didn't pass `addPointerPermissions`
+                  // permissions checks
+                  // Default is to return OBJECT_NOT_FOUND, but if we ignore include errors we can
+                  // return [] here.
+                  if (ignoreIncludeErrors) {
+                    return [];
+                  }
                   throw new Parse.Error(Parse.Error.OBJECT_NOT_FOUND, 'Object not found.');
                 } else {
                   return [];
diff --git a/src/RestQuery.js b/src/RestQuery.js
index dd226f249c..d542ddf336 100644
--- a/src/RestQuery.js
+++ b/src/RestQuery.js
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ function _UnsafeRestQuery(
       case 'includeAll':
         this.includeAll = true;
         break;
+      // Propagate these options from restOptions to findOptions too
       case 'explain':
       case 'hint':
       case 'distinct':
@@ -217,6 +218,7 @@ function _UnsafeRestQuery(
       case 'limit':
       case 'readPreference':
       case 'comment':
+      case 'ignoreIncludeErrors':
         this.findOptions[option] = restOptions[option];
         break;
       case 'order':
@@ -1018,6 +1020,13 @@ function includePath(config, auth, response, path, context, restOptions = {}) {
   } else if (restOptions.readPreference) {
     includeRestOptions.readPreference = restOptions.readPreference;
   }
+  // Flag for replacePointers if missing pointers should be preserved without throwing errors
+  // defaults to false to continue previous behaviour
+  let preserveMissing = false;
+  if (restOptions.ignoreIncludeErrors) {
+    includeRestOptions.ignoreIncludeErrors = restOptions.ignoreIncludeErrors;
+    preserveMissing = true;
+  }
 
   const queryPromises = Object.keys(pointersHash).map(async className => {
     const objectIds = Array.from(pointersHash[className]);
@@ -1059,7 +1068,9 @@ function includePath(config, auth, response, path, context, restOptions = {}) {
     }, {});
 
     var resp = {
-      results: replacePointers(response.results, path, replace),
+      results: replacePointers(response.results, path, replace, {
+        preserveMissing,
+      }),
     };
     if (response.count) {
       resp.count = response.count;
@@ -1100,13 +1111,15 @@ function findPointers(object, path) {
 // in, or it may be a single object.
 // Path is a list of fields to search into.
 // replace is a map from object id -> object.
+// `options` is an optional options object; options currently include
+// `preserveMissing?: boolean` where if it is true
 // Returns something analogous to object, but with the appropriate
 // pointers inflated.
-function replacePointers(object, path, replace) {
+function replacePointers(object, path, replace, options = {}) {
+  const preserveMissing = !!options.preserveMissing;
   if (object instanceof Array) {
-    return object
-      .map(obj => replacePointers(obj, path, replace))
-      .filter(obj => typeof obj !== 'undefined');
+    const mapped = object.map(obj => replacePointers(obj, path, replace, options));
+    return preserveMissing ? mapped : mapped.filter(obj => typeof obj !== 'undefined');
   }
 
   if (typeof object !== 'object' || !object) {
@@ -1115,7 +1128,11 @@ function replacePointers(object, path, replace) {
 
   if (path.length === 0) {
     if (object && object.__type === 'Pointer') {
-      return replace[object.objectId];
+      const replacement = replace[object.objectId];
+      if (typeof replacement === 'undefined') {
+        return preserveMissing ? object : undefined;
+      }
+      return replacement;
     }
     return object;
   }
@@ -1124,7 +1141,7 @@ function replacePointers(object, path, replace) {
   if (!subobject) {
     return object;
   }
-  var newsub = replacePointers(subobject, path.slice(1), replace);
+  var newsub = replacePointers(subobject, path.slice(1), replace, options);
   var answer = {};
   for (var key in object) {
     if (key == path[0]) {
diff --git a/src/Routers/ClassesRouter.js b/src/Routers/ClassesRouter.js
index 8b6e447757..e7422d0926 100644
--- a/src/Routers/ClassesRouter.js
+++ b/src/Routers/ClassesRouter.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const ALLOWED_GET_QUERY_KEYS = [
   'readPreference',
   'includeReadPreference',
   'subqueryReadPreference',
+  'ignoreIncludeErrors',
 ];
 
 export class ClassesRouter extends PromiseRouter {
@@ -75,6 +76,9 @@ export class ClassesRouter extends PromiseRouter {
     if (typeof body.subqueryReadPreference === 'string') {
       options.subqueryReadPreference = body.subqueryReadPreference;
     }
+    if (body.ignoreIncludeErrors != null) {
+      options.ignoreIncludeErrors = !!body.ignoreIncludeErrors;
+    }
 
     return rest
       .get(
@@ -174,6 +178,7 @@ export class ClassesRouter extends PromiseRouter {
       'hint',
       'explain',
       'comment',
+      'ignoreIncludeErrors',
     ];
 
     for (const key of Object.keys(body)) {
@@ -226,6 +231,9 @@ export class ClassesRouter extends PromiseRouter {
     if (body.comment && typeof body.comment === 'string') {
       options.comment = body.comment;
     }
+    if (body.ignoreIncludeErrors) {
+      options.ignoreIncludeErrors = true;
+    }
     return options;
   }