diff --git a/.changeset/tricky-bugs-listen.md b/.changeset/tricky-bugs-listen.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ef6fffbd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/tricky-bugs-listen.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@directus/app': patch
+---
+
+Don't allow contains on a UUID type
diff --git a/app/src/views/private/components/filter-sidebar-detail/get-available-operators-for-type.ts b/app/src/views/private/components/filter-sidebar-detail/get-available-operators-for-type.ts
index 5990d183e8..9167683521 100644
--- a/app/src/views/private/components/filter-sidebar-detail/get-available-operators-for-type.ts
+++ b/app/src/views/private/components/filter-sidebar-detail/get-available-operators-for-type.ts
@@ -15,13 +15,17 @@ export default function getAvailableOperatorsForType(type: string): OperatorType
 		case 'status':
 		case 'slug':
 		case 'lang':
-		case 'uuid':
 		case 'hash':
 		case 'string':
 			return {
 				type: 'text',
 				operators: ['contains', 'ncontains', 'eq', 'neq', 'empty', 'nempty', 'in', 'nin'],
 			};
+		case 'uuid':
+			return {
+				type: 'text',
+				operators: ['eq', 'neq', 'empty', 'nempty', 'in', 'nin'],
+			};
 		// Boolean
 		case 'boolean':
 			return {