diff --git a/crates/bevy_asset/src/handle.rs b/crates/bevy_asset/src/handle.rs
index 8924bf87de850..77cb6bddfa7e9 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_asset/src/handle.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_asset/src/handle.rs
@@ -268,6 +268,13 @@ impl<A: Asset> From<&mut Handle<A>> for UntypedAssetId {
     }
 }
 
+impl<A: Asset> From<Uuid> for Handle<A> {
+    #[inline]
+    fn from(uuid: Uuid) -> Self {
+        Handle::Uuid(uuid, PhantomData)
+    }
+}
+
 /// An untyped variant of [`Handle`], which internally stores the [`Asset`] type information at runtime
 /// as a [`TypeId`] instead of encoding it in the compile-time type. This allows handles across [`Asset`] types
 /// to be stored together and compared.
@@ -626,6 +633,15 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(UntypedHandle::from(typed.clone()), untyped);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn from_uuid() {
+        let uuid = UUID_1;
+        let handle: Handle<TestAsset> = uuid.into();
+
+        assert!(handle.is_uuid());
+        assert_eq!(handle.id(), AssetId::Uuid { uuid });
+    }
+
     /// `PartialReflect::reflect_clone`/`PartialReflect::to_dynamic` should increase the strong count of a strong handle
     #[test]
     fn strong_handle_reflect_clone() {