diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/shared/utils/split-string-to-array.ts b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/shared/utils/split-string-to-array.ts
index f238d22fbc..60fb7cbe0b 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/shared/utils/split-string-to-array.ts
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/shared/utils/split-string-to-array.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  * // customDelimiterResult: ['apple', 'orange', 'banana']
  */
 export function splitStringToArray(string: string, split: string = ','): string[] {
+	if (!string) return [];
 	return (
 		string
 			.split(split)