diff --git a/crates/bevy_ui/src/widget/image.rs b/crates/bevy_ui/src/widget/image.rs
index 70995e3c93..43df6aaeeb 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_ui/src/widget/image.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_ui/src/widget/image.rs
@@ -269,7 +269,9 @@ pub fn update_image_content_size_system(
         * ui_scale.0;
 
     for (mut content_size, image, mut image_size) in &mut query {
-        if !matches!(image.image_mode, NodeImageMode::Auto) {
+        if !matches!(image.image_mode, NodeImageMode::Auto)
+            || image.image.id() == TRANSPARENT_IMAGE_HANDLE.id()
+        {
             if image.is_changed() {
                 // Mutably derefs, marking the `ContentSize` as changed ensuring `ui_layout_system` will remove the node's measure func if present.
                 content_size.measure = None;