diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/playground/chat_ui/ChatUI.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/playground/chat_ui/ChatUI.tsx
index b93921a29eb..06a09ca2c37 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/playground/chat_ui/ChatUI.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/playground/chat_ui/ChatUI.tsx
@@ -348,8 +348,12 @@ const ChatUI: React.FC<ChatUIProps> = ({
   ]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    setSecureItem("apiKeySource", JSON.stringify(apiKeySource));
-    setSecureItem("apiKey", apiKey);
+    try {
+      setSecureItem("apiKeySource", JSON.stringify(apiKeySource));
+      setSecureItem("apiKey", apiKey);
+    } catch {
+      // Storage full or unavailable — non-critical, skip persisting.
+    }
     sessionStorage.setItem("endpointType", endpointType);
     sessionStorage.setItem("selectedTags", JSON.stringify(selectedTags));
     sessionStorage.setItem("selectedVectorStores", JSON.stringify(selectedVectorStores));
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/secureStorage.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/secureStorage.ts
index 6942368bcf2..183b572e737 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/secureStorage.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/utils/secureStorage.ts
@@ -18,11 +18,7 @@ function decode(encoded: string): string {
 }
 
 export function setSecureItem(key: string, value: string): void {
-  try {
-    window.sessionStorage.setItem(key, encode(value));
-  } catch {
-    // Storage full or unavailable — silently ignore.
-  }
+  window.sessionStorage.setItem(key, encode(value));
 }
 
 export function getSecureItem(key: string): string | null {