diff --git a/app/services/articles/attributes.rb b/app/services/articles/attributes.rb
index fc3e888b7..07dff2edd 100644
--- a/app/services/articles/attributes.rb
+++ b/app/services/articles/attributes.rb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ module Articles
       hash = attributes.slice(*ATTRIBUTES)
       # don't reset the collection when no series was passed
       hash[:collection] = collection if attributes.key?(:series)
-      hash[:tag_list] = tag_list
+      hash[:tag_list] = tag_list if !attributes[:tag_list].nil? || !attributes[:tags].nil?
       hash[:edited_at] = Time.current if update_edited_at
       hash[:published_at] = hash[:published_at].to_datetime if hash[:published_at]
       hash
diff --git a/spec/requests/api/v1/articles_spec.rb b/spec/requests/api/v1/articles_spec.rb
index abee27188..54becd2cc 100644
--- a/spec/requests/api/v1/articles_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/api/v1/articles_spec.rb
@@ -1051,6 +1051,27 @@ RSpec.describe "Api::V1::Articles" do
         end.to change(article, :body_markdown) && change(article, :cached_tag_list)
       end
 
+      it "does not update the tags if not included in the request" do
+        article.update_column(:cached_tag_list, "meta, discussion")
+        expect do
+          put_article(
+            body_markdown: "something here",
+          )
+          article.reload
+        end.not_to change(article, :cached_tag_list)
+      end
+
+      it "does update the tags if empty string is provided" do
+        article.update_column(:cached_tag_list, "meta, discussion")
+        expect do
+          put_article(
+            body_markdown: "something here",
+            tags: %w[],
+          )
+          article.reload
+        end.to change(article, :cached_tag_list)
+      end
+
       it "assigns the article to a new series belonging to the user" do
         expect do
           put_article(