diff --git a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js
index 16bcb2dd23a2c..f1385eda82e26 100644
--- a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js
+++ b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { regexp } from '@wordpress/shortcode';
 import deprecated from '@wordpress/deprecated';
 
 export function addActiveFormats( value, activeFormats ) {
-	if ( activeFormats.length ) {
+	if ( activeFormats?.length ) {
 		let index = value.formats.length;
 
 		while ( index-- ) {