Intervention image orientation taken by iPhone

Hi all,

For my project I need to upload images using an iPhone. This will be done in portrait mode, using a vue component which actually shows the image in portrait mode. The component creates a base64 version of the image which will be posted. So far so good.

On the Laravel side, this is a part of the function so far:

// Strip the first part of the base64 value.
$image = explode('.', $data['image']);

// Decode base64 value
$image = base64_decode($image[1], true); 

// Make image with auto orientate
$image = Image::make($image)->orientate();     
          
// Resize image
$image->resize(800, null, function ($constraint) {
    $constraint->aspectRatio();                       
});                                    

// Stream image               
$image = $image->stream()->__toString();      

// Save to S3.
Storage::disk('s3')->put($filename, $image, 'public'); 

Now the image actually gets uploaded to S3, but still in landscape mode, while take in portrait mode.

PHP is build using --enable-exif, using version 7.1.14

Anybody got an idea what to do next?