diff --git a/src/components/App.tsx b/src/components/App.tsx
index 224092e7db..874ee41d78 100644
--- a/src/components/App.tsx
+++ b/src/components/App.tsx
@@ -346,7 +346,10 @@ import { activeConfirmDialogAtom } from "./ActiveConfirmDialog";
 import { actionWrapTextInContainer } from "../actions/actionBoundText";
 import BraveMeasureTextError from "./BraveMeasureTextError";
 import { activeEyeDropperAtom } from "./EyeDropper";
-import { convertToExcalidrawElements } from "../data/transform";
+import {
+  ExcalidrawProgrammaticElement,
+  convertToExcalidrawElements,
+} from "../data/transform";
 import { ValueOf } from "../utility-types";
 import { isSidebarDockedAtom } from "./Sidebar/Sidebar";
 
@@ -2288,8 +2291,9 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
       } else if (data.elements) {
         const elements = (
           data.programmaticAPI
-            ? //@ts-ignore
-              convertToExcalidrawElements(data.elements)
+            ? convertToExcalidrawElements(
+                data.elements as ExcalidrawProgrammaticElement[],
+              )
             : data.elements
         ) as readonly ExcalidrawElement[];
         // TODO remove formatting from elements if isPlainPaste
diff --git a/src/data/transform.ts b/src/data/transform.ts
index 24da7648f4..40269e70a5 100644
--- a/src/data/transform.ts
+++ b/src/data/transform.ts
@@ -334,10 +334,14 @@ const bindLinearElementToElement = (
     if (end.id) {
       existingElement = elementStore
         .getElements()
-        .find((ele) => ele?.id === end.id) as Exclude<
-        ExcalidrawBindableElement,
-        ExcalidrawImageElement | ExcalidrawFrameElement
-      >;
+        .find(
+          (
+            ele,
+          ): ele is Exclude<
+            ExcalidrawBindableElement,
+            ExcalidrawImageElement | ExcalidrawFrameElement
+          > => ele?.id === end.id,
+        );
       if (!existingElement) {
         console.error(`No element for end binding with id ${end.id} found`);
       }