diff --git a/packages/cli/src/active-workflow-manager.ts b/packages/cli/src/active-workflow-manager.ts
index ff02ae145bfb0..572cbe41a57f4 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/active-workflow-manager.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/active-workflow-manager.ts
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ export class ActiveWorkflowManager {
 		// to prevent issues with users upgrading from a version < 1.15, where the webhook entity
 		// was cleared on shutdown to anything past 1.28.0, where we stopped populating it on init,
 		// causing all webhooks to break
-		if (['init', 'leadershipChange'].includes(activationMode)) return true;
+		if (['init', 'leadershipChange', 'activate'].includes(activationMode)) return true;
 
 		return this.instanceSettings.isLeader; // 'update' or 'activate'
 	}