diff --git a/lib/theme_settings_manager.rb b/lib/theme_settings_manager.rb
index 300c026ff99..7fe1fd47073 100644
--- a/lib/theme_settings_manager.rb
+++ b/lib/theme_settings_manager.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class ThemeSettingsManager
   def self.cast_row_value(row)
     type_name = self.types.invert[row.data_type].downcase.capitalize
     klass = "ThemeSettingsManager::#{type_name}".constantize
-    klass.cast(row.value)
+    klass.cast(klass.extract_value_from_row(row))
   end
 
   def self.create(name, default, type, theme, opts = {})
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ class ThemeSettingsManager
     value
   end
 
+  def self.extract_value_from_row(row)
+    row.value
+  end
+
   def initialize(name, default, theme, opts = {})
     @name = name.to_sym
     @default = default
diff --git a/lib/theme_settings_manager/objects.rb b/lib/theme_settings_manager/objects.rb
index 70a15d7260c..47874373259 100644
--- a/lib/theme_settings_manager/objects.rb
+++ b/lib/theme_settings_manager/objects.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 class ThemeSettingsManager::Objects < ThemeSettingsManager
+  def self.extract_value_from_row(row)
+    row.json_value
+  end
+
   def value
     has_record? ? db_record.json_value : default.map!(&:deep_stringify_keys)
   end
diff --git a/spec/services/theme_settings_migrations_runner_spec.rb b/spec/services/theme_settings_migrations_runner_spec.rb
index 2b1e760e003..a986e785a28 100644
--- a/spec/services/theme_settings_migrations_runner_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/services/theme_settings_migrations_runner_spec.rb
@@ -36,6 +36,60 @@ describe ThemeSettingsMigrationsRunner do
       )
     end
 
+    it "passes values of `objects` typed settings to migrations and the values are parsed (not json string)" do
+      settings_field.update!(value: <<~YAML)
+        objects_setting:
+          type: objects
+          default:
+            - text: "hello, default link"
+              url: "https://google.com"
+            - text: "hi, another default link"
+              url: "https://discourse.org"
+          schema:
+            name: link
+            properties:
+              text:
+                type: string
+              url:
+                type: string
+      YAML
+      theme.update_setting(
+        :objects_setting,
+        [{ text: "custom link 1", url: "https://meta.discourse.org" }],
+      )
+      theme.save!
+
+      migration_field.update!(value: <<~JS)
+        export default function migrate(settings) {
+          settings.get("objects_setting").push(
+            {
+              text: "another custom link",
+              url: "https://try.discourse.org"
+            }
+          )
+          return settings;
+        }
+      JS
+
+      results = described_class.new(theme).run
+
+      expect(results.first[:settings_before]).to eq(
+        {
+          "objects_setting" => [
+            { "url" => "https://meta.discourse.org", "text" => "custom link 1" },
+          ],
+        },
+      )
+      expect(results.first[:settings_after]).to eq(
+        {
+          "objects_setting" => [
+            { "url" => "https://meta.discourse.org", "text" => "custom link 1" },
+            { "url" => "https://try.discourse.org", "text" => "another custom link" },
+          ],
+        },
+      )
+    end
+
     it "passes the output of the previous migration as input to the next one" do
       theme.update_setting(:integer_setting, 1)