diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm
index 8ee80f118520..75ee8161115f 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm
@@ -378,7 +378,14 @@ CGFloat RCTFontSizeMultiplier(void)
     };
   });
 
-  return mapping[RCTSharedApplication().preferredContentSizeCategory].floatValue;
+  UIApplication *application = RCTSharedApplication();
+  if (!application) {
+    return 1.0;
+  }
+
+  NSNumber *value = mapping[application.preferredContentSizeCategory];
+  CGFloat multiplier = value != nil ? value.floatValue : 1.0;
+  return multiplier > 0.0 ? multiplier : 1.0;
 }
 
 UIDeviceOrientation RCTDeviceOrientation(void)