@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ module.exports = function (proto) {
// nativeAutoOrient option enables this if you know you have >= 1.3.18
if (this._options.nativeAutoOrient || this._options.imageMagick) {
this.out('-auto-orient');
this.strip();
// only strip exif metadata when using graphicsmagick, imagemagick already removes the orientation tag
if (this._options.nativeAutoOrient) this.strip();
return this;
}